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ATHLETICS · 74th OF 121 · 3 PAID ATHLETES

Burundi athletics prize money

Burundi has taken $83,500 out of athletics, 74th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Francine Niyonsaba is the biggest earner on $64,000, 76.6% of the national total.

All of it belongs to three athletes by name. Burundi 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 $83,500
RANK 74/121
ATHLETES PAID 3
TITLES 4
TO THE FEDERATION $0

Every Burundi athlete athletics has paid

3 of them, biggest first

$83,500 between them
Every athlete from Burundi 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 Francine Niyonsaba Diamond League 8 4 $64,000
2 Egide Ntakarutimana Diamond League 3 — $18,000
3 Antoine Gakeme Diamond League 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. Three of these athletes have a page of their own here.

The biggest earners

All three of them

Francine Niyonsaba $64k Egide Ntakarutimana $18k Antoine Gakeme $1,500

Francine Niyonsaba holds 76.6% of everything Burundi has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 100% of it between them, and $27,833 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.

Where the money comes from

All six competitions, and what each has sent Burundi

$83,500 in all
What each of the six athletics competitions has paid Burundi, 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 3 4 $83,500 — $83,500
World Championships — — — — —
Indoor Championships — — — — —
Ultimate Championship — — — — —
World Relays — — — — —
Cross Country — — — — —
All six 3 4 $83,500 — $83,500

The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Burundi on $83,500, 100% of the national total. It is also the only one of the six that has ever paid Burundi anything. Burundi 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 3 because no Burundi 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.

Burundi against the rest

Where $83,500 puts Burundi

That is 0.1% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 74th out of 121. Burundi has Luxembourg above on $89,250 and Austria below on $79,250.

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 Burundi

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money has Burundi won in athletics?

$83,500 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 74th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 0.1% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.

Which Burundi athlete earns the most prize money?

Francine Niyonsaba, on $64,000 from eight paid finishes and four wins. That is 76.6% of everything Burundi has won. Egide Ntakarutimana is next on $18,000.

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

All of it belongs to three athletes by name. Burundi 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 Burundi have won athletics prize money?

3, sharing $83,500 between them, which is $27,833 each. One of them has won a title, 4 in all. Not one of them has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.

Where to next

The competitions that paid Burundi

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 Burundi against the other 120 the sport has paid.

The six competitions