Track & Field

Olympic athletics, all events, all eras. Minimum 2 Olympic gold medals. Data as of September 2026.

The Machine

Achievement 35%Dominance 25%Peak 20%Longevity 20%

#	Athlete	Rank range	GOAT score
1	Paavo Nurmi1920–1934	stable	95.0
2	Allyson Felix2003–2022	2–3	86.0
3	Carl Lewis1979–1997	2–3	84.3
4	Usain Bolt2002–2017	stable	73.0
5	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce2007–2024	5–7	54.0
6	Michael Johnson1990–2001	5–7	49.1
7	Jesse Owens1933–1936	5–7	44.9
8	Mondo Duplantis2015–present	stable	25.8

#	Athlete	Claude	ChatGPT	Gemini	Grok	Impact	Character	Machine
1	Usain Bolt	1	2	1	1	10.0	9.3	#4
2	Carl Lewis	2	1	2	2	9.3	8.3	#3
3	Jesse Owens	3	4	4	3	10.0	10.0	#7
4	Allyson Felix	5	3	5	4	8.8	9.8	#2
T5	Mondo Duplantis	4	5	7	5	8.5	8.8	#8
T5	Paavo Nurmi	—	—	3	—	9.0	8.0	#1
7	Michael Johnson	—	—	6	—	8.0	8.0	#6
8	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	—	—	8	—	8.0	9.0	#5

Panel ballots are the AI models’ own views, published word for word. They aren’t goat’s opinions and can contain errors.

🏃 Track & Field · 2009

Bolt runs the 100m world record in Berlin. It still stands.

🏃 Track & Field · 1936

Owens wins the 100m, the first of four golds at Hitler’s Olympics.

🏃 Track & Field · 2025

Duplantis clears 6.30m in Tokyo for a third world title and his 14th world record.

🏃 Track & Field · 2008

Bolt wins the Olympic 100m in world-record time while celebrating before the line.

🏃 Track & Field · 1984

Four golds at Los Angeles 1984, in the same four events Jesse Owens won in 1936.

🏃 Track & Field · 2021

Every one of Felix’s Olympic medal races, the most by any American in track and field.

Indicator	Pillar	Notes
Olympic gold medals	Achievement	—
World Championship gold medals	Achievement	World Championships began in 1983.
Olympic medals (all colors)	Dominance	—
Most golds at a single Olympics	Peak	—
Olympic Games with a gold medal	Longevity	—