Bulgaria athletics prize money
Bulgaria has taken $197,583 out of athletics, 57th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Bozhidar Sarâboyukov is the biggest earner on $132,000, 66.8% of the national total.
All of it belongs to five athletes by name. Bulgaria 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 Bulgaria athlete athletics has paid
5 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bozhidar Sarâboyukov | 10 | 1 | $132,000 |
| 2 | Mirela Demireva | 9 | — | $30,458 |
| 3 | Tihomir Ivanov | 6 | — | $19,625 |
| 4 | Plamena Mitkova | 2 | — | $14,000 |
| 5 | Aleksandra Nacheva | 1 | — | $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. Five of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All five of them
Bozhidar Sarâboyukov holds 66.8% of everything Bulgaria has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 92.2% of it between them, and $39,517 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Bulgaria
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 5 | 1 | $93,583 | — | $93,583 |
| World Championships | 1 | — | $11,000 | — | $11,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 2 | — | $18,000 | — | $18,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | 1 | — | $75,000 | — | $75,000 |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 5 | 1 | $197,583 | — | $197,583 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Bulgaria on $93,583, 47.4% of the national total. Four of the six have paid Bulgaria. Bulgaria 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 5: two 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. Bozhidar Sarâboyukov has been paid by four of them: the Diamond League, the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships and the Ultimate Championship.
Bulgaria against the rest
Where $197,583 puts Bulgaria
That is 0.3% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 57th out of 121. Bulgaria has South Korea above on $197,750 and Hungary below on $177,000.
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 Bulgaria
- Serbia
- Grenada
- Saint Lucia
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Ivory Coast
- Qatar
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Ireland
- Sri Lanka
- Lithuania
- Croatia
- Venezuela
- Senegal
- Puerto Rico
- India
- Slovakia
- Turkey
- Colombia
- Kazakhstan
- South Korea
- Hungary
- Burkina Faso
- Estonia
- Mexico
- Finland
- Belarus
- Dominica
- Latvia
- British Virgin Islands
- Ecuador
- Panama
- Tunisia
- Cameroon
- Barbados
- Liberia
- Luxembourg
- Burundi
- Austria
- Philippines
- Tanzania
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Bulgaria won in athletics?
$197,583 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 57th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 0.3% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Bulgaria athlete earns the most prize money?
Bozhidar Sarâboyukov, on $132,000 from ten paid finishes and one win. That is 66.8% of everything Bulgaria has won. Mirela Demireva is next on $30,458.
Does prize money won by Bulgaria go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to five athletes by name. Bulgaria 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 Bulgaria have won athletics prize money?
5, sharing $197,583 between them, which is $39,517 each. One of them has won a title, 1 in all. Two have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Bulgaria
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 Bulgaria against the other 120 the sport has paid.