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ATHLETICS · 80th OF 130 · 2 PAID ATHLETES

Cameroon athletics prize money

Cameroon has taken $94,500 out of athletics, 80th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Emmanuel Eseme is the biggest earner on $93,000, 98.4% of the national total.

All of it belongs to two athletes by name. Cameroon 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 $94,500
RANK 80/130
ATHLETES PAID 2
TITLES 2
TO THE FEDERATION $0

Every Cameroon athlete athletics has paid

2 of them, biggest first

$94,500 between them
Every athlete from Cameroon 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 Emmanuel Eseme Diamond League, Indoor Championships 15 2 $93,000
2 Joelle Mbumi 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. Two of these athletes have a page of their own here.

The biggest earners

All two of them

Emmanuel Eseme $93k Joelle Mbumi $1,500

Emmanuel Eseme holds 98.4% of everything Cameroon has won in athletics. The two biggest hold 100% of it between them, and $47,250 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.

Where the money comes from

All six competitions, and what each has sent Cameroon

$94,500 in all
What each of the six athletics competitions has paid Cameroon, 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 2 2 $88,500 - $88,500
World Championships - - - - -
Indoor Championships 1 - $6,000 - $6,000
Ultimate Championship - - - - -
World Relays - - - - -
Cross Country - - - - -
All six 2 2 $94,500 - $94,500

The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Cameroon on $88,500, 93.7% of the national total. Two of the six have paid Cameroon. Cameroon has won nothing at the World 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 2: one athlete has been paid by more than one of the six, and is counted in every row that paid them and once in the national total. Emmanuel Eseme has been paid by two of them: the Diamond League and the World Indoor Championships.

Cameroon against the rest

Where $94,500 puts Cameroon

That is under 0.1% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 80th out of 130. Cameroon has Iran above on $102,000 and Liberia below on $93,000.

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 Cameroon

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money has Cameroon won in athletics?

$94,500 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 80th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.

Which Cameroon athlete earns the most prize money?

Emmanuel Eseme, on $93,000 from fifteen paid finishes and two wins. That is 98.4% of everything Cameroon has won. Joelle Mbumi is next on $1,500.

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

All of it belongs to two athletes by name. Cameroon 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 Cameroon have won athletics prize money?

2, sharing $94,500 between them, which is $47,250 each. One of them has won a title, 2 in all. One has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.

Where to next

The competitions that paid Cameroon

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 Cameroon against the other 129 the sport has paid.

The six competitions