#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
1501	Dick McGuire	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1949–1960	80.0
1502	Lindsay Benko	Swimming	🇺🇸 United States	1996–2004	78.8
1503	T.J. Watt	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	2017–—	83.0
1504	Mashrafe Mortaza	Cricket	🇧🇩 Bangladesh	2001–2020	82.3
1505	Wasim Bari	Cricket	🇵🇰 Pakistan	1964–1984	82.6
1506	Danni Wyatt-Hodge	Cricket	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	2010–—	82.2
1507	Derrick Adkins	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1990–2000	77.8
1508	René Lacoste	Tennis	🇫🇷 France	1922–1932	78.4
1509	Ed Macauley	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1949–1959	78.2
1510	Carol Blazejowski	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1974–1982	76.4
1511	John Hannah	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1973–1985	84.2
1512	Tony DeMarco	Boxing	🇺🇸 United States	1948–1962	80.0
1513	Wilmer Allison	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1927–1938	81.2
1514	Ted Bowley	Cricket	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1912–1934	82.6
1515	Francesca Durante	Football	🇮🇹 Italy	2011–—	79.0
1516	Simon Bucher	Swimming	🇦🇹 Austria	2017–—	78.6
1517	Alessandro Calvi	Swimming	🇮🇹 Italy	2001–2012	79.9
1518	Derrick Atkins	Athletics	🇧🇸 Bahamas	2003–2012	79.5
1519	Me'Lisa Barber	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	2002–2010	79.2
1520	Ray Bourque	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1979–2001	86.0
1521	Blanka Vlašić	Athletics	🇭🇷 Croatia	1998–2017	79.2
1522	Carmelo Anthony	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	2003–2022	80.6
1523	Vasiliy Lomachenko	Boxing	🇺🇦 Ukraine	2008–2024	78.2
1524	Jonas Björkman	Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1991–2008	82.7
1525	Anders Järryd	Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1980–1996	82.4
1526	Chantelle Cameron	Boxing	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	2017–—	77.7
1527	José Luíz Barbosa	Athletics	🇧🇷 Brazil	1983–1998	80.7
1528	Pancho Villa	Boxing	🇵🇭 Philippines	1919–1925	75.8
1529	Éider Arévalo	Athletics	🇨🇴 Colombia	2011–—	79.7
1530	DeMarcus Ware	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	2005–2016	83.7
1531	Randy White	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1975–1988	84.4
1532	Nikola Vučević	Basketball	🇲🇪 Montenegro	2011–—	80.1
1533	Kelly Holmes	Athletics	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1993–2005	79.7
1534	Andrés Nocioni	Basketball	🇦🇷 Argentina	1997–2017	80.6
1535	Frank Sedgman	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1946–1962	80.5
1536	Tony Esposito	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1968–1984	84.0
1537	Rob Blake	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1989–2010	85.0
1538	Ralf Bartels	Athletics	🇩🇪 Germany	1998–2012	80.8
1539	Billy Barnes	Cricket	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1875–1894	81.5
1540	Chris Adams	Cricket	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1988–2008	82.4
1541	Kristóf Milák	Swimming	🇭🇺 Hungary	2016–—	77.7
1542	Dana Vollmer	Swimming	🇺🇸 United States	2000–2016	79.7
1543	Edwin Moses	Athletics	🇺🇸 United States	1976–1988	84.7
1544	Shane Gould	Swimming	🇦🇺 Australia	1971–1973	72.9
1545	Dražen Petrović	Basketball	🇭🇷 Croatia	1979–1993	75.9
1546	Charlotte Bonnet	Swimming	🇫🇷 France	2010–—	80.5
1547	Nikolai Valuev	Boxing	🇷🇺 Russia	1993–2009	80.4
1548	Chris Byrd	Boxing	🇺🇸 United States	1993–2009	80.3
1549	Míchel Salgado	Football	🇪🇸 Spain	1994–2012	79.6
1550	Frédérick Bousquet	Swimming	🇫🇷 France	2000–2016	79.5

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