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ATHLETICS · 71st OF 121 · 4 PAID ATHLETES

Barbados athletics prize money

Barbados has taken $93,000 out of athletics, 71st of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Sada Williams is the biggest earner on $78,250, 84.1% of the national total.

All of it belongs to four athletes by name. Barbados 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.

TOTAL WON $93,000
RANK 71/121
ATHLETES PAID 4
TITLES 0
TO THE FEDERATION $0

Every Barbados athlete athletics has paid

4 of them, biggest first

$93,000 between them
Every athlete from Barbados who has won athletics prize money, ranked by career total across the six competitions, with which of them paid, how many paid finishes and how many titles.
# ATHLETE PAID WINS TOTAL
1 Sada Williams Diamond League 25 — $78,250
2 Jonathan Jones Diamond League 2 — $9,000
3 Tia-Adana Belle Diamond League 2 — $4,500
4 Shane Brathwaite Diamond League 1 — $1,250

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. Four of these athletes have a page of their own here.

The biggest earners

All four of them

Sada Williams $78k Jonathan Jones $9,000 Tia-Adana Belle $4,500 Shane Brathwaite $1,250

Sada Williams holds 84.1% of everything Barbados has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 98.7% of it between them, and $23,250 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.

Where the money comes from

All six competitions, and what each has sent Barbados

$93,000 in all
What each of the six athletics competitions has paid Barbados, split between money that went to an athlete by name and money that went to the federation.
COMPETITION ATHLETES WINS TO ATHLETES TO FEDERATION TOTAL
Diamond League 4 — $93,000 — $93,000
World Championships — — — — —
Indoor Championships — — — — —
Ultimate Championship — — — — —
World Relays — — — — —
Cross Country — — — — —
All six 4 0 $93,000 — $93,000

The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Barbados on $93,000, 100% of the national total. It is also the only one of the six that has ever paid Barbados anything. Barbados 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 4 because no Barbados 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.

Barbados against the rest

Where $93,000 puts Barbados

That is 0.1% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 71st out of 121. Barbados has Cameroon above on $93,000 and Liberia below on $93,000.

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 Barbados

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money has Barbados won in athletics?

$93,000 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 71st of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 0.1% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.

Which Barbados athlete earns the most prize money?

Sada Williams, on $78,250 from 25 paid finishes. That is 84.1% of everything Barbados has won. Jonathan Jones is next on $9,000.

Does prize money won by Barbados go to the athlete or the federation?

All of it belongs to four athletes by name. Barbados 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 Barbados have won athletics prize money?

4, sharing $93,000 between them, which is $23,250 each. None of them has won a title: every payment is a finishing place behind somebody else. Not one of them has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.

Where to next

The competitions that paid Barbados

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 Barbados against the other 120 the sport has paid.

The six competitions