#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
1769	Jack Bond	Cricket	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1955–1974	81.0
1770	Tiger Woods	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	1996–—	84.7
1771	Juninho Pernambucano	Football	🇧🇷 Brazil	1993–2013	78.4
1772	Jim Brown	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1957–1965	80.0
1773	Boris Becker	Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	1984–1999	80.4
1774	Brett Favre	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1991–2010	84.5
1775	Jack Ham	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1971–1982	82.4
1776	Antonio Gates	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	2003–2018	83.7
1777	Carlos Moyá	Tennis	🇪🇸 Spain	1995–2010	80.4
1778	Newsy Lalonde	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1905–1927	82.8
1779	Milorad Čavić	Swimming	🇷🇸 Serbia	2003–2016	77.8
1781	Earnie Shavers	Boxing	🇺🇸 United States	1969–1995	79.4
1782	Ronde Barber	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1997–2012	84.6
1783	Nickel Ashmeade	Athletics	🇯🇲 Jamaica	2009–2019	78.4
1784	Gaylord Perry	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1962–1983	85.3
1785	Derrick Henry	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	2016–—	82.4
1786	Freddie Freeman	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	2010–—	84.3
1787	Shawn Kemp	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1989–2003	77.0
1788	Arne Andersson	Athletics	🇸🇪 Sweden	1941–1947	77.1
1789	Denis Pankratov	Swimming	🇷🇺 Russia	1992–2000	76.7
1790	Jarome Iginla	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1996–2017	83.5
1792	Buck Buchanan	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1963–1975	83.0
1793	Yale Lary	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1952–1964	83.3
1794	Ron Mix	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1960–1971	82.6
1795	Bert Olmstead	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1948–1962	83.5
1796	Rod Langway	Ice Hockey	🇺🇸 United States	1978–1993	83.0
1797	Jim Langer	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1970–1981	82.3
1798	Dick LeBeau	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1959–1972	83.8
1799	Jacques Lemaire	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1967–1979	82.1
1800	Dave Andreychuk	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1982–2006	84.7
1801	Lou Gehrig	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1923–1939	83.0
1802	Carlos Alcaraz	Tennis	🇪🇸 Spain	2018–—	77.3
1804	David Thompson	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1975–1984	74.4
1805	Blake Griffin	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	2009–2023	78.0
1806	Bob Feller	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1936–1956	83.7
1807	Morten Andersen	American Football	🇩🇰 Denmark	1982–2007	84.9
1808	Larry Murphy	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1980–2001	84.7
1809	Barry McGuigan	Boxing	🇮🇪 Ireland	1981–1989	76.5
1810	Isaac Bruce	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1994–2009	83.7
1811	Ray Guy	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1973–1986	83.1
1813	Dave Winfield	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1973–1995	85.4
1814	Anthony Nesty	Swimming	🇸🇷 Suriname	1986–1993	75.6
1815	Wang Zhizhi	Basketball	🇨🇳 China	1995–2017	79.9
1816	Thomas Muster	Tennis	🇦🇹 Austria	1985–1999	79.0
1817	Ted Lindsay	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1944–1965	83.0
1819	Learie Constantine	Cricket	🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago	1923–1939	79.4
1820	Lenny Moore	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1956–1967	82.2
1821	Ted Schroeder	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1939–1954	79.5
1823	Bob Griese	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1967–1980	82.7
1824	Mike Haynes	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1976–1989	82.9

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