Bahrain athletics prize money
Bahrain has taken $593,250 out of athletics, 29th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Winfred Yavi is the biggest earner on $228,000, 38.4% of the national total.
All of it belongs to eleven athletes by name. Bahrain 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 Bahrain athlete athletics has paid
11 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Winfred Yavi | 29 | 8 | $228,000 |
| 2 | Salwa Eid Naser | 19 | 9 | $212,500 |
| 3 | Birhanu Balew | 18 | 2 | $91,750 |
| 4 | Nelly Jepkosgei | 7 | 1 | $29,500 |
| 5 | Ruth Jebet | 2 | — | $7,000 |
| 6 | Shitaye Eshete | 1 | — | $7,000 |
| 7 | Kemi Adekoya | 3 | — | $6,500 |
| 8 | Sadik Mikhou | 1 | — | $6,000 |
| 9 | Albert Rop | 1 | — | $2,500 |
| 10 | Noora Salem Jasim | 1 | — | $1,500 |
| 11 | Tigest Getent | 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. Ten of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All eleven of them
Winfred Yavi holds 38.4% of everything Bahrain has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 89.7% of it between them, and $53,932 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Bahrain
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 10 | 20 | $523,250 | — | $523,250 |
| World Championships | 4 | — | $70,000 | — | $70,000 |
| Indoor Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ultimate Championship | — | — | — | — | — |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 11 | 20 | $593,250 | — | $593,250 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Bahrain on $523,250, 88.2% of the national total. Two of the six have paid Bahrain. Bahrain has won nothing at the World Indoor Championships, the Ultimate Championship, the World Relays and the World Cross Country Championships.
The ATHLETES column counts the people each competition paid, so it does not add up to 11: three athletes have been paid by more than one of the six, and are counted in every row that paid them and once in the national total. Winfred Yavi has been paid by two of them: the Diamond League and the World Championships.
Bahrain against the rest
Where $593,250 puts Bahrain
That is 0.8% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 29th out of 121. Bahrain has Nigeria above on $608,750 and Belgium below on $539,875.
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 Bahrain
- Sweden
- Germany
- Norway
- Ukraine
- Canada
- Switzerland
- France
- Cuba
- Poland
- Botswana
- South Africa
- Greece
- China
- Brazil
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Dominican Republic
- Portugal
- Japan
- Nigeria
- Belgium
- Slovenia
- Uganda
- Czechia
- Morocco
- Algeria
- Bahamas
- Serbia
- Grenada
- Saint Lucia
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Ivory Coast
- Qatar
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Ireland
- Sri Lanka
- Lithuania
- Croatia
- Venezuela
- Senegal
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Bahrain won in athletics?
$593,250 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 29th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 0.8% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Bahrain athlete earns the most prize money?
Winfred Yavi, on $228,000 from 29 paid finishes and eight wins. That is 38.4% of everything Bahrain has won. Salwa Eid Naser is next on $212,500.
Does prize money won by Bahrain go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to eleven athletes by name. Bahrain 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 Bahrain have won athletics prize money?
11, sharing $593,250 between them, which is $53,932 each. Four of them have won a title, 20 in all. Three have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Bahrain
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 Bahrain against the other 120 the sport has paid.