Fastest Dog Breeds in the World (2026)

The other rows are AKC Fast CAT best-of-breed speeds from the 2025 tabulation. Fast CAT times a 100-yard lure chase and converts the time to miles per hour. The ranked cell is Speed in MPH, not the handicap. Bodhi, a whippet, is 36.299 mph. Caster, a borzoi, is 31.561. Then a Belgian Malinois, a saluki, a vizsla, an Australian cattle dog, an Azawakh, a Belgian sheepdog, a Rhodesian ridgeback, an Italian greyhound, a pharaoh hound, a Dalmatian and a Parson Russell terrier, each at the miles per hour that sheet says.

The same sheet's fastest greyhound, Fritz, is 36.454 mph. That 100-yard average is slower than the Guinness race and is not the greyhound's rank. Fourteen breeds are enough for a public ranking.