Authorised Neutral Athletes athletics prize money
Authorised Neutral Athletes has taken $1,190,500 out of athletics, 27th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Mariya Lasitskene is the biggest earner on $440,500, 37% of the national total.
All of it belongs to thirteen 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
13 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mariya Lasitskene | 36 | 26 | $440,500 |
| 2 | Sergey Shubenkov | 36 | 7 | $268,000 |
| 3 | Anzhelika Sidorova | 22 | 4 | $149,250 |
| 4 | Darya Klishina | 29 | 3 | $111,500 |
| 5 | Yelena Sokolova | 14 | 4 | $72,000 |
| 6 | Timur Morgunov | 5 | 1 | $65,750 |
| 7 | Ilya Ivanyuk | 11 | 2 | $56,250 |
| 8 | Danil Lysenko | 2 | 2 | $12,000 |
| 9 | Mikhail Akimenko | 1 | 1 | $10,000 |
| 10 | Viktoriya Prokopenko | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 11 | Artem Primak | 1 | - | $1,250 |
| 12 | Olga Mullina | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 13 | 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. Thirteen of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 13
Mariya Lasitskene holds 37% of everything Authorised Neutral Athletes has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 72% of it between them, and $91,577 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 | 13 | 50 | $1,190,500 | - | $1,190,500 |
| World Championships | - | - | - | - | - |
| Indoor Championships | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ultimate Championship | - | - | - | - | - |
| World Relays | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 13 | 50 | $1,190,500 | - | $1,190,500 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Authorised Neutral Athletes on $1,190,500, 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 13 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 $1,190,500 puts Authorised Neutral Athletes
That is 0.9% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 27th out of 130. Authorised Neutral Athletes has RUS above on $1,249,167 and the Bahamas below on $1,125,958.
The biggest of the 130 is the United States on $29,436,125, which is 21.8% 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
- Australia
- France
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Sweden
- Italy
- South Africa
- Ukraine
- Canada
- Cuba
- Norway
- China
- Czechia
- Botswana
- Greece
- Switzerland
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Brazil
- RUS
- Bahamas
- Croatia
- Portugal
- Bahrain
- Nigeria
- Morocco
- Dominican Republic
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Belgium
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Qatar
- Serbia
- Colombia
- Slovenia
- Grenada
- Uganda
- Kazakhstan
- Lithuania
- Algeria
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Authorised Neutral Athletes won in athletics?
$1,190,500 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 27th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 0.9% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Authorised Neutral Athletes athlete earns the most prize money?
Mariya Lasitskene, on $440,500 from 36 paid finishes and 26 wins. That is 37% of everything Authorised Neutral Athletes has won. Sergey Shubenkov is next on $268,000.
Does prize money won by Authorised Neutral Athletes go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to thirteen 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?
13, sharing $1,190,500 between them, which is $91,577 each. Nine of them have won a title, 50 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 129 the sport has paid.