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Belevskaya vs Hägg

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GOAT verdictgoatrank.world
HäggWinner
84.7

Hägg wins: Dominance, Peak, Statistics

Belevskaya
82.9

Belevskaya wins: Longevity, Honours

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇸🇪 Gunder Hägg
84.7

Hägg leads in 3 of 5 weighted categories. Set 15 world records in 80 days in 1942 and pushed the mile towards four minutes.

1. Gunder Hägg
84.7
2. Yelena Belevskaya
82.9

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.

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Career stage · GOAT pace

Through season 5 · Major golds per season
1. 🇧🇾 Yelena Belevskaya5 seasons played · career day 1,825296 major golds
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇸🇪 Gunder Hägg5 seasons played · career day 1,82619 major golds
-93.6% vs Belevskaya at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇧🇾 Belevskaya004597296635
🇸🇪 Hägg00141621

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.

MetricBelevskayaRetiredHäggRetired
European Championship titles1
World Championship medals1
Personal best in centimetres714
European Indoor medals2
National titles4
World records15
Mile world record4.01
Swedish titles8
World records in 194210
Distances with world records8
Dominance w25%8090
Peak w20%9096
Longevity w20%7866
Honours w20%8280
Statistics w15%8692

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GOAT Rank · the data
Hägg84.7
Belevskaya82.9
The people
Belevskaya
Hägg

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