#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
232	Pancho Gonzales	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1947–1974	89.7
233	Raymond Kopa	Football	🇫🇷 France	1949–1967	85.5
235	Nate Archibald	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1970–1984	85.5
236	Gianluca Zambrotta	Football	🇮🇹 Italy	1994–2014	86.3
239	Dirk Nowitzki	Basketball	🇩🇪 Germany	1998–2019	88.4
240	Jesse Owens	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1932–1936	82.2
241	Javier Sotomayor	Athletics	🇨🇺 Cuba	1984–2001	87.5
244	Gennadiy Golovkin	Boxing	🇰🇿 Kazakhstan	2006–2022	87.5
245	George Mikan	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1946–1956	83.8
246	Éder Jofre	Boxing	🇧🇷 Brazil	1957–1976	87.0
248	Ryan Giggs	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales	1990–2014	88.3
249	Thomas Müller	Football	🇩🇪 Germany	2008–—	87.1
250	Julius Erving	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1971–1987	86.8
251	Julio César Chávez	Boxing	🇲🇽 Mexico	1980–2005	88.3
252	Willie Pep	Boxing	🇺🇸 United States	1940–1966	89.0
254	Clive Lloyd	Cricket	🏴 West Indies	1963–1988	89.0
257	Artis Gilmore	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1971–1988	87.3
258	Hristo Stoichkov	Football	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1984–2003	84.6
259	Ezzard Charles	Boxing	🇺🇸 United States	1940–1959	87.8
262	Wayne Gretzky	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1979–1999	91.6
263	Al Oerter	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1954–1980	87.7
264	Robert Korzeniowski	Athletics	🇵🇱 Poland	1988–2004	87.0
266	Gheorghe Hagi	Football	🇷🇴 Romania	1982–2001	86.0
267	Emile Griffith	Boxing	🇺🇸 United States	1958–1977	88.6
271	Adam Peaty	Swimming	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	2012–—	85.8
272	Alex Hannum	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1948–1971	85.9
273	Frank McGuire	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1947–1980	87.4
274	Roger Milla	Football	🇨🇲 Cameroon	1970–1996	87.1
275	Héctor Camacho	Boxing	🇵🇷 Puerto Rico	1980–2010	88.5
276	Giovane Élber	Football	🇧🇷 Brazil	1990–2006	85.7
281	Nils Liedholm	Football	🇸🇪 Sweden	1946–1961	85.5
282	Wilfredo Gómez	Boxing	🇵🇷 Puerto Rico	1974–1989	85.3
288	Thierry Henry	Football	🇫🇷 France	1994–2014	85.1
289	Kevin Garnett	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1995–2016	87.6
290	Giorgio Chiellini	Football	🇮🇹 Italy	2000–2023	86.7
291	Alex English	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1976–1991	86.8
292	Artur Beterbiev	Boxing	🇨🇦 Canada	2013–—	85.5
293	Ian Rush	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales	1979–2000	85.5
295	Kevin McHale	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1980–1993	85.7
296	Krešimir Ćosić	Basketball	🇭🇷 Croatia	1968–1983	86.2
297	Alexis Argüello	Boxing	🇳🇮 Nicaragua	1968–1995	86.8
298	Antonio Cervantes	Boxing	🇨🇴 Colombia	1964–1983	87.1
300	Kevin De Bruyne	Football	🇧🇪 Belgium	2008–—	85.0
303	Garfield Sobers	Cricket	🏴 West Indies	1953–1974	88.0
304	Giampiero Boniperti	Football	🇮🇹 Italy	1946–1961	85.8
305	Don Haskins	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1961–1999	87.2
307	Clyde Drexler	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1983–1998	86.0
308	Denis Law	Football	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland	1956–1974	84.9
309	Virgil Hill	Boxing	🇺🇸 United States	1984–2007	88.3
310	Jack "Kid" Berg	Boxing	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1924–1945	87.8

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