Who are the running GOATs from track and field? 🐐
This is proper fun science.
Greatest of All Time: Development of a Ranking System to Determine the Most Successful Olympic and World Championship Runners Since 1896
Study Details
This new paper developed an evidence-based scoring system to identify the greatest of all time (GOAT) athlete in running events held at the Olympics and World Championships 🏆
Here are the results ⬇️
Key Findings
Top 5 Men Overall
1️⃣ Usain Bolt 🇯🇲
2️⃣ Kenenisa Bekele 🇪🇹
3️⃣ Haile Gebrselassie 🇪🇹
4️⃣ Michael Johnson 🇺🇸
5️⃣ Paavo Nurmi 🇫🇮
Top 5 Women Overall
1️⃣ Faith Kipyegon 🇰🇪
2️⃣ Tirunesh Dibaba 🇪🇹
3️⃣ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 🇯🇲
4️⃣ Sifan Hassan 🇳🇱
5️⃣ Merlene Ottey
And also provided the GOATs for different categories of running distance ⬇️
Sprints (60m - 400m)
Men: U. Bolt 🇯🇲
Women: S.-A. Fraser-Pryce 🇯🇲
Hurdles (80m - 400m)
Men: E. Moses 🇺🇸
Women: S. McLaughlin 🇺🇸
Middle-distance (800m - 1500m)
Men: H. El Guerrouj 🇲🇦
Women: F. Kipyegon 🇰🇪
Steeplechase (2500m - 4000m)
Men: E. Kemboi 🇰🇪
Women: G. Galkina-Samitova 🇷🇺
Long-distance (3000m - 10,000m)
Men: K. Bekele 🇪🇹
Women: T. Dibaba 🇪🇹
Marathon
Men: A. Bikila 🇪🇹
Women: C. Ndereba 🇰🇪
Cross country
Men: K. Bekele 🇪🇹
Women: G. Waitz 🇳🇴
Indoors (60m - 3000m)
Men: H. Gebrselassie 🇪🇹
Women: M. Mutola 🇲🇿
Conclusion
So there we have it…Usain Bolt is the GOAT.
How cool is this paper? Which sport should be next to establish the science-based GOAT? 🤔
Reference
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42075032/
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