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Cook vs Lucarelli

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CookWinner
83.9

Cook wins: Longevity

Lucarelli
83.9

Lucarelli wins: Dominance, Honours, Statistics

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇦🇺 Natalie Cook
83.9

Cook leads in 2 of 5 weighted categories. Olympic champion in Sydney 2000 and a five-time Olympian on the sand.

1. Natalie Cook
83.9
2. Ricardo Lucarelli
83.9

Category breakdown

Season form · Titles per season

Career timeline · Titles per season

Cumulative output season by season — the shape of each career against the other.

GOAT pace tracker

Career stage · GOAT pace

Through season 5 · Titles per season
1. 🇦🇺 Natalie Cook5 seasons played · career day 1,825346 titles
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇧🇷 Ricardo Lucarelli5 seasons played · career day 1,8258 titles
-97.7% vs Cook at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇦🇺 Cook0052114346704
🇧🇷 Lucarelli0012817

Careers are aligned at debut, so a rookie's first 5 seasons are measured against the same window in a legend's career — Yamal against Messi at the same age-stage, a tour rookie against Tiger Woods in 1996.

MetricCookRetiredLucarelliActive
Olympic gold medals11
Olympic medals2
Olympic Games contested5
World Tour wins10
Commonwealth Games golds1
Olympic silver medals1
World League titles2
Club World Championship titles3
Brazil caps250
Dominance w25%7882
Peak w20%9090
Longevity w20%9080
Honours w20%8284
Statistics w15%8084

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GOAT Rank · the data
Cook83.9
Lucarelli83.9
The people
Cook
Lucarelli

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