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Morales vs Coutts

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MoralesWinner
80.2

Morales wins: Dominance, Longevity

Coutts
80.1

Coutts wins: Honours

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇺🇸 Pablo Morales
80.2

Morales leads in 4 of 5 weighted categories. Comeback Olympic 100 m butterfly champion in Barcelona 1992, eight years after his first medals.

1. Pablo Morales
80.2
2. Alicia Coutts
80.1

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. 🇺🇸 Pablo Morales5 seasons played · career day 1,826394 major golds
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇦🇺 Alicia Coutts5 seasons played · career day 1,826387 major golds
-1.8% vs Morales at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇺🇸 Morales0088170334660
🇦🇺 Coutts0055123291693

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.

MetricMoralesRetiredCouttsRetired
Olympic gold medals31
Olympic medals55
NCAA titles11
World records set3
Olympic Games contested2
World Championship titles3
Commonwealth Games golds9
Global finals contested12
Dominance w25%7876
Peak w20%8888
Longevity w20%7472
Honours w20%8084
Statistics w15%8282

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GOAT Rank · the data
Morales80.2
Coutts80.1
The people
Morales
Coutts

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