Authorised Neutral Athletes athletics prize money
Authorised Neutral Athletes has taken $403,250 out of athletics, 40th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Mariya Lasitskene is the biggest earner on $164,000, 40.7% of the national total.
All of it belongs to twelve athletes by name. Authorised Neutral Athletes has never been paid a relay purse, a World Relays ladder place or a cross country team standing, which are the three things that pay a federation rather than a person.
Every Authorised Neutral Athletes athlete athletics has paid
12 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mariya Lasitskene | 12 | 9 | $164,000 |
| 2 | Anzhelika Sidorova | 11 | 3 | $99,000 |
| 3 | Ilya Ivanyuk | 11 | 2 | $56,250 |
| 4 | Sergey Shubenkov | 6 | 2 | $38,000 |
| 5 | Timur Morgunov | 3 | — | $11,750 |
| 6 | Mikhail Akimenko | 1 | 1 | $10,000 |
| 7 | Yelena Sokolova | 3 | — | $9,000 |
| 8 | Danil Lysenko | 1 | — | $6,000 |
| 9 | Darya Klishina | 1 | — | $6,000 |
| 10 | Artem Primak | 1 | — | $1,250 |
| 11 | Olga Mullina | 1 | — | $1,000 |
| 12 | Polina Lukyanenkova | 1 | — | $1,000 |
Career totals across all six competitions, not a single season. PAID is how many finishing places were paid for, which is a different count from wins: a second place in a Diamond League final and a world title are both one payment. Twelve of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All twelve of them
Mariya Lasitskene holds 40.7% of everything Authorised Neutral Athletes has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 79.2% of it between them, and $33,604 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Authorised Neutral Athletes
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 12 | 17 | $403,250 | — | $403,250 |
| World Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Indoor Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ultimate Championship | — | — | — | — | — |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 12 | 17 | $403,250 | — | $403,250 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Authorised Neutral Athletes on $403,250, 100% of the national total. It is also the only one of the six that has ever paid Authorised Neutral Athletes anything. Authorised Neutral Athletes has won nothing at the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships, the Ultimate Championship, the World Relays and the World Cross Country Championships.
The ATHLETES column adds up to 12 because no Authorised Neutral Athletes athlete has been paid by more than one of the six. Where one has, the same person is counted in every row that paid them and once in the national total.
Authorised Neutral Athletes against the rest
Where $403,250 puts Authorised Neutral Athletes
That is 0.5% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 40th out of 121. Authorised Neutral Athletes has Saint Lucia above on $423,000 and Ivory Coast below on $359,500.
The biggest of the 121 is the United States on $16,292,792, which is 21.7% of everything the sport has paid to a country. The full money list ranks every one of them, and the six competitions behind these figures each have a section of their own.
Countries either side of Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Greece
- China
- Brazil
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Dominican Republic
- Portugal
- Japan
- Nigeria
- Bahrain
- Belgium
- Slovenia
- Uganda
- Czechia
- Morocco
- Algeria
- Bahamas
- Serbia
- Grenada
- Saint Lucia
- Ivory Coast
- Qatar
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Ireland
- Sri Lanka
- Lithuania
- Croatia
- Venezuela
- Senegal
- Puerto Rico
- India
- Slovakia
- Turkey
- Colombia
- Kazakhstan
- South Korea
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Burkina Faso
- Estonia
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Authorised Neutral Athletes won in athletics?
$403,250 across the six competitions this section holds: the Diamond League, the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships, the Ultimate Championship, the World Relays and the World Cross Country Championships. That is 40th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 0.5% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Authorised Neutral Athletes athlete earns the most prize money?
Mariya Lasitskene, on $164,000 from twelve paid finishes and nine wins. That is 40.7% of everything Authorised Neutral Athletes has won. Anzhelika Sidorova is next on $99,000.
Does prize money won by Authorised Neutral Athletes go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to twelve athletes by name. Authorised Neutral Athletes has never been paid a relay purse, a World Relays ladder place or a cross country team standing, which are the three things that pay a federation rather than a person.
How many athletes from Authorised Neutral Athletes have won athletics prize money?
12, sharing $403,250 between them, which is $33,604 each. Five of them have won a title, 17 in all. Not one of them has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Authorised Neutral Athletes
Every figure on this page comes out of one of the six below, and each has its own section here, event by event and edition by edition, with the full ladder of what each finishing place was worth. The country money list puts Authorised Neutral Athletes against the other 120 the sport has paid.