Costa Rica athletics prize money
Costa Rica has taken $16,000 out of athletics, 97th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Gerald Drummond is the only athlete on it, on $16,000.
All of it belongs to one athlete by name. Costa Rica 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 Costa Rica athlete athletics has paid
1 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gerald Drummond | 6 | 1 | $16,000 |
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 Costa Rica
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 1 | 1 | $16,000 | — | $16,000 |
| World Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Indoor Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ultimate Championship | — | — | — | — | — |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 1 | 1 | $16,000 | — | $16,000 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Costa Rica on $16,000, 100% of the national total. It is also the only one of the six that has ever paid Costa Rica anything. Costa Rica 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 Costa Rica 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.
Costa Rica against the rest
Where $16,000 puts Costa Rica
That is under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 97th out of 121. Costa Rica has Saint Vincent and the Grenadines above on $17,750 and Guatemala below on $13,750.
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 Costa Rica
- Tanzania
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Namibia
- Chinese Taipei
- Djibouti
- Syria
- Moldova
- Uruguay
- Israel
- Samoa
- Uzbekistan
- Chile
- Denmark
- Gambia
- Romania
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Azerbaijan
- Ghana
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Guatemala
- Peru
- Cyprus
- Niger
- Iran
- Montenegro
- Eritrea
- Egypt
- Benin
- Haiti
- Guyana
- Albania
- South Sudan
- Iceland
- Pakistan
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Kuwait
- Thailand
- Bermuda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Costa Rica won in athletics?
$16,000 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 97th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Costa Rica athlete earns the most prize money?
Gerald Drummond, on $16,000 from six paid finishes and one win. That is 100% of everything Costa Rica has won. No other Costa Rica athlete has been paid at all.
Does prize money won by Costa Rica go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to one athlete by name. Costa Rica 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 Costa Rica have won athletics prize money?
One. Gerald Drummond is the whole of the athletes' side of this page, on $16,000 from six paid finishes, one of them a win.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Costa Rica
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 Costa Rica against the other 120 the sport has paid.