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Yang vs Bassitt

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YangWinner
87.0

Yang wins: Dominance, Peak, Longevity, Honours, Statistics

Bassitt
71.6

Bassitt wins: no category outright

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇹🇼 Yang Chuan-kwang
87.0

Yang leads in 5 of 5 weighted categories. Olympic decathlon silver medallist and a world record holder in 1963.

1. Yang Chuan-kwang
87.0
2. Trevor Bassitt
71.6

Category breakdown

Season form · Major golds per season

Career timeline · Major golds 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 · Major golds per season
1. 🇺🇸 Trevor Bassitt5 seasons played · career day 1,825384 major golds
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇹🇼 Yang Chuan-kwang5 seasons played · career day 1,825292 major golds
-24.0% vs Bassitt at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇹🇼 Yang004597292644
🇺🇸 Bassitt0058126384608

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.

MetricYangRetiredBassittActive
Olympic silver medals1
World records set1
Asian Games titles3
Decathlon personal best9,121
NCAA titles23
World Championship medals1
World indoor medals1
Personal best (s)47.39
Global finals contested2
Dominance w25%8666
Peak w20%9482
Longevity w20%8266
Honours w20%8472
Statistics w15%9074

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GOAT Rank · the data
Yang87.0
Bassitt71.6
The people
Yang
Bassitt

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