#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
1	Usain Bolt	Athletics	🇯🇲 Jamaica	2004–2017	93.2
2	Sergey Bubka	Athletics	🇺🇦 Ukraine	1983–2001	93.2
3	Carl Lewis	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1979–1997	93.1
5	Paavo Nurmi	Athletics	🇫🇮 Finland	1920–1934	92.1
6	Eliud Kipchoge	Athletics	🇰🇪 Kenya	2002–—	92
7	Haile Gebrselassie	Athletics	🇪🇹 Ethiopia	1992–2015	91.9
8	Yuriy Sedykh	Athletics	🇺🇦 Ukraine	1974–1992	91.5
10	Edwin Moses	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1976–1988	91.3
13	Mutaz Essa Barshim	Athletics	🇶🇦 Qatar	2010–—	91.1
14	Mike Conley Sr.	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1984–1996	90.9
16	Soufiane El Bakkali	Athletics	🇲🇦 Morocco	2014–—	90.6
17	Jan Železný	Athletics	🇨🇿 Czechia	1984–2006	90.5
21	Kenenisa Bekele	Athletics	🇪🇹 Ethiopia	2001–2023	90.3
23	Javier Sotomayor	Athletics	🇨🇺 Cuba	1984–2001	89.9
26	Saïd Aouita	Athletics	🇲🇦 Morocco	1983–1993	89.9
27	Al Oerter	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1954–1980	89.7
28	Robert Korzeniowski	Athletics	🇵🇱 Poland	1988–2004	89.7
31	Emil Zátopek	Athletics	🇨🇿 Czechia	1944–1958	89.4
32	Virgilijus Alekna	Athletics	🇱🇹 Lithuania	1993–2012	89.1
33	Hicham El Guerrouj	Athletics	🇲🇦 Morocco	1992–2006	89.1
34	Nourredine Morceli	Athletics	🇩🇿 Algeria	1990–2000	89.1
35	Ray Ewry	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1900–1908	88.9
36	Iván Pedroso	Athletics	🇨🇺 Cuba	1990–2007	88.8
37	Ryan Crouser	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	2013–—	88.7
41	Michael Johnson	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1988–2001	88.5
42	Lars Riedel	Athletics	🇩🇪 Germany	1988–2006	88.4
44	Paul Tergat	Athletics	🇰🇪 Kenya	1992–2009	88.4
50	Daley Thompson	Athletics	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1976–1992	88
51	Andreas Thorkildsen	Athletics	🇳🇴 Norway	2001–2016	88
54	Willie Banks	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1978–1996	87.7
59	Colin Jackson	Athletics	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1986–2003	87.5
60	Sebastian Coe	Athletics	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1975–1990	87.5
65	Jonathan Edwards	Athletics	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1988–2003	87.4
66	Donovan Bailey	Athletics	🇨🇦 Canada	1991–2001	87.4
67	Rai Benjamin	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	2017–—	87.3
68	Igor Astapkovich	Athletics	🇧🇾 Belarus	1987–2004	87.3
71	Steve Backley	Athletics	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1988–2004	87.2
72	Randy Barnes	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1986–1998	87.2
74	Linford Christie	Athletics	🇬🇧 Great Britain	1986–1997	87.1
75	Renaud Lavillenie	Athletics	🇫🇷 France	2005–—	87
77	Andrey Abduvaliyev	Athletics	🇹🇯 Tajikistan	1988–1999	87
78	Yang Chuan-kwang	Athletics	🇹🇼 Taiwan	1954–1968	87
81	Robert Harting	Athletics	🇩🇪 Germany	2004–2018	86.7
82	David Rudisha	Athletics	🇰🇪 Kenya	2006–2019	86.7
84	Mike Powell	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1984–1996	86.6
86	Jesse Owens	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1932–1936	86.3
89	Ralph Boston	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1960–1968	86.3
90	Mo Farah	Athletics	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	2001–2023	86.3
92	Armand Duplantis	Athletics	🇸🇪 Sweden	2018–—	86.3
93	Tyson Gay	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	2005–2017	86.2

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