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ATHLETICS · 120th OF 121 · 1 PAID ATHLETES

Congo athletics prize money

The Congo has taken $500 out of athletics, 120th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Franck Elemba is the only athlete on it, on $500.

All of it belongs to one athlete by name. The Congo 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 $500
RANK 120/121
ATHLETES PAID 1
TITLES 0
TO THE FEDERATION $0

Every Congo athlete athletics has paid

1 of them, biggest first

$500 between them
Every athlete from Congo 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 Franck Elemba Diamond League 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. One of these athletes has a page of their own here.

Where the money comes from

All six competitions, and what each has sent the Congo

$500 in all
What each of the six athletics competitions has paid Congo, 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 1 — $500 — $500
World Championships — — — — —
Indoor Championships — — — — —
Ultimate Championship — — — — —
World Relays — — — — —
Cross Country — — — — —
All six 1 0 $500 — $500

The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for the Congo on $500, 100% of the national total. It is also the only one of the six that has ever paid the Congo anything. The Congo 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 1 because no Congo 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.

The Congo against the rest

Where $500 puts the Congo

That is under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 120th out of 121. The Congo has Somalia above on $1,000 and Hong Kong below on $500.

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 the Congo

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money has the Congo won in athletics?

$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 120th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.

Which Congo athlete earns the most prize money?

Franck Elemba, on $500 from one paid finish. That is 100% of everything the Congo has won. No other Congo athlete has been paid at all.

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

All of it belongs to one athlete by name. The Congo 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 the Congo have won athletics prize money?

One. Franck Elemba is the whole of the athletes' side of this page, on $500 from one paid finish and no win.

Where to next

The competitions that paid the Congo

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 the Congo against the other 120 the sport has paid.

The six competitions