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Ruiz vs Nekoda

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RuizWinner
86.8

Ruiz wins: no category outright

Nekoda
86.8

Nekoda wins: no category outright

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇨🇺 Yumilka Ruiz
86.8

Ruiz leads in 5 of 5 weighted categories. Double Olympic champion with Cuba's dominant women's team.

1. Yumilka Ruiz
86.8
2. Katsutoshi Nekoda
86.8

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. 🇨🇺 Yumilka Ruiz5 seasons played · career day 1,82510 titles
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇯🇵 Katsutoshi Nekoda5 seasons played · career day 1,8265 titles
-50.0% vs Ruiz at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇨🇺 Ruiz00131019
🇯🇵 Nekoda0011311

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.

MetricRuizRetiredNekodaRetired
Olympic gold medals21
Olympic medals33
World Championship golds1
World Cup titles2
Grand Prix titles2
World Championship medals2
Olympic Games contested3
Japan caps300
Dominance w25%8686
Peak w20%9292
Longevity w20%8282
Honours w20%8888
Statistics w15%8686

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GOAT Rank · the data
Ruiz86.8
Nekoda86.8
The people
Ruiz
Nekoda

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