Brazil athletics prize money
Brazil has taken $1,329,500 out of athletics, 25th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Alison dos Santos is the biggest earner on $565,500, 42.5% of the national total.
All of it belongs to 35 athletes by name. Brazil 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 Brazil athlete athletics has paid
35 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alison dos Santos | 36 | 23 | $565,500 |
| 2 | Fabiana Murer | 35 | 13 | $223,000 |
| 3 | Caio Bonfim | 2 | 1 | $105,000 |
| 4 | Darlan Romani | 14 | 1 | $73,500 |
| 5 | Thiago Braz | 21 | - | $61,500 |
| 6 | Matheus Lima | 13 | - | $54,000 |
| 7 | Almir dos Santos | 19 | - | $44,250 |
| 8 | Andressa de Morais | 8 | - | $35,000 |
| 9 | Keila Costa | 15 | - | $29,500 |
| 10 | Augusto Dutra | 6 | - | $21,750 |
| 11 | Mauro Vinicius da Silva | 6 | - | $17,000 |
| 12 | Rafael Pereira | 7 | - | $14,000 |
| 13 | Rosângela Santos | 4 | - | $9,500 |
| 14 | Gabriel Constantino | 3 | - | $8,750 |
| 15 | Vitória Cristina Rosa | 5 | - | $8,500 |
| 16 | Maurren Higa Maggi | 2 | - | $8,000 |
| 17 | Geisa Aparecida Coutinho | 1 | - | $6,000 |
| 18 | Jonathan Henrique Silva | 3 | - | $4,500 |
| 19 | Núbia Soares | 3 | - | $4,500 |
| 20 | José Fernando Ferreira | 1 | - | $4,000 |
| 21 | Luiz Maurício da Silva | 1 | - | $4,000 |
| 22 | Ana Claudia Lemos | 2 | - | $3,500 |
| 23 | Jadel Gregório | 1 | - | $3,000 |
| 24 | Gisele Lima de Oliveira | 1 | - | $2,500 |
| 25 | Izabela da Silva | 2 | - | $2,500 |
| 26 | Mahau Suguimati | 2 | - | $2,500 |
| 27 | Paulo André Camilo | 1 | - | $2,500 |
| 28 | Fernanda Martins | 2 | - | $2,000 |
| 29 | Fábio Gomes da Silva | 1 | - | $1,750 |
| 30 | Diomar de Souza | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 31 | Geisa Arcanjo | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 32 | João Vitor de Oliveira | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 33 | Thiago André | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 34 | Altobeli Silva | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 35 | Leticia Oro Melo | 1 | - | $500 |
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. 33 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 35
Alison dos Santos holds 42.5% of everything Brazil has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 67.2% of it between them, and $37,986 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Brazil
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 33 | 36 | $1,027,500 | - | $1,027,500 |
| World Championships | 2 | 1 | $140,000 | - | $140,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 3 | - | $12,000 | - | $12,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | 1 | 1 | $150,000 | - | $150,000 |
| World Relays | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 35 | 38 | $1,329,500 | - | $1,329,500 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Brazil on $1,027,500, 77.3% of the national total. Four of the six have paid Brazil. Brazil has won nothing at 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 35: 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. Alison dos Santos has been paid by three of them: the Diamond League, the World Championships and the Ultimate Championship.
Brazil against the rest
Where $1,329,500 puts Brazil
That is 1% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 25th out of 130. Brazil has New Zealand above on $1,432,375 and RUS below on $1,249,167.
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 Brazil
- Ethiopia
- Germany
- Australia
- France
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Sweden
- Italy
- South Africa
- Ukraine
- Canada
- Cuba
- Norway
- China
- Czechia
- Botswana
- Greece
- Switzerland
- Spain
- New Zealand
- RUS
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Bahamas
- Croatia
- Portugal
- Bahrain
- Nigeria
- Morocco
- Dominican Republic
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Belgium
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Qatar
- Serbia
- Colombia
- Slovenia
- Grenada
- Uganda
- Kazakhstan
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Brazil won in athletics?
$1,329,500 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 25th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 1% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Brazil athlete earns the most prize money?
Alison dos Santos, on $565,500 from 36 paid finishes and 23 wins. That is 42.5% of everything Brazil has won. Fabiana Murer is next on $223,000.
Does prize money won by Brazil go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to 35 athletes by name. Brazil 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 Brazil have won athletics prize money?
35, sharing $1,329,500 between them, which is $37,986 each. Four of them have won a title, 38 in all. Three have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Brazil
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 Brazil against the other 129 the sport has paid.