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Calligaris vs Bottom

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GOAT verdictgoatrank.world
CalligarisWinner
80.9

Calligaris wins: Peak, Honours

Bottom
80.9

Bottom wins: Longevity

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇮🇹 Novella Calligaris
80.9

Calligaris leads in 4 of 5 weighted categories. Italy's first Olympic swimming medallist and a world champion in 1973.

1. Novella Calligaris
80.9
2. Joe Bottom
80.9

Category breakdown

Season form · Form index per season

Career timeline · Form index 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 · Form index per season
1. 🇺🇸 Joe Bottom5 seasons played · career day 1,825373 major golds
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇮🇹 Novella Calligaris5 seasons played · career day 1,826355 major golds
-4.8% vs Bottom at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇮🇹 Calligaris0045103258486
🇺🇸 Bottom0050115373488

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.

MetricCalligarisRetiredBottomRetired
Olympic medals31
World Championship titles1
World records set12
European medals3
Italian titles20
NCAA titles5
US titles6
World Championship medals2
Dominance w25%8080
Peak w20%9290
Longevity w20%6670
Honours w20%8280
Statistics w15%8686

Fan vote — data vs the people

GOAT Rank · the data
Calligaris80.9
Bottom80.9
The people
Calligaris
Bottom

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