Cuba athletics prize money
Cuba has taken $2,146,583 out of athletics, 16th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Leyanis Pérez is the biggest earner on $373,250, 17.4% of the national total.
All of it belongs to 43 athletes by name. Cuba 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 Cuba athlete athletics has paid
43 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leyanis Pérez | 24 | 12 | $373,250 |
| 2 | Yaime Pérez | 41 | 8 | $307,500 |
| 3 | Yarisley Silva | 42 | 7 | $203,333 |
| 4 | Denia Caballero | 29 | 2 | $128,000 |
| 5 | Davisleydi Velazco | 8 | 2 | $122,000 |
| 6 | Yarelis Barrios | 19 | 6 | $120,500 |
| 7 | Liadagmis Povea | 26 | - | $119,500 |
| 8 | Lázaro Martínez | 23 | 2 | $102,000 |
| 9 | Juan Miguel Echevarría | 7 | 4 | $98,000 |
| 10 | Yargelis Savigne | 12 | 7 | $94,500 |
| 11 | Reynier Mena | 13 | 2 | $44,000 |
| 12 | Dayron Robles | 6 | 4 | $43,500 |
| 13 | David Girat | 7 | 1 | $31,500 |
| 14 | Maykel Massó | 7 | 1 | $28,500 |
| 15 | Mabel Gay | 9 | - | $28,000 |
| 16 | Omar Cisneros | 8 | - | $25,500 |
| 17 | Roxana Gómez | 8 | - | $25,000 |
| 18 | Jorge A. Hodelín | 6 | - | $23,500 |
| 19 | Ernesto Revé | 8 | - | $23,000 |
| 20 | Rose Mary Almanza | 7 | 1 | $23,000 |
| 21 | Silinda Morales | 2 | - | $23,000 |
| 22 | Jordan Díaz | 3 | 1 | $20,500 |
| 23 | Lázaro Borges | 5 | - | $15,000 |
| 24 | Jorge Fernández | 3 | - | $14,500 |
| 25 | Kendry Menéndez | 4 | - | $14,500 |
| 26 | Yuneysi Santiusti | 5 | - | $13,000 |
| 27 | Misleydis González | 6 | - | $12,500 |
| 28 | Mario Díaz | 1 | - | $11,000 |
| 29 | Guillermo Martínez | 3 | - | $7,500 |
| 30 | Dailenys Alcántara | 2 | - | $6,500 |
| 31 | Yeimer López | 2 | - | $6,500 |
| 32 | Yoandri Betanzos | 2 | - | $6,500 |
| 33 | Sahily Diago Mesa | 1 | - | $6,000 |
| 34 | Luis Zayas | 3 | - | $5,000 |
| 35 | Yarisley Collado | 2 | - | $4,000 |
| 36 | Yunier Pérez | 2 | - | $4,000 |
| 37 | Yordan O'Farrill | 1 | - | $2,500 |
| 38 | Josleidy Ribalta | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 39 | Roberto Skyers | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 40 | Wilfredo Martínez | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 41 | Anay Tejeda | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 42 | Osviel Hernández | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 43 | Carlos Véliz | 1 | - | $1,000 |
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. 42 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 43
Leyanis Pérez holds 17.4% of everything Cuba has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 41.2% of it between them, and $49,921 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Cuba
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 42 | 57 | $1,759,583$1.8m | - | $1,759,583$1.8m |
| World Championships | 6 | 1 | $148,000 | - | $148,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 4 | 2 | $124,000 | - | $124,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | 2 | - | $115,000 | - | $115,000 |
| World Relays | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 43 | 60 | $2,146,583$2.1m | - | $2,146,583$2.1m |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Cuba on $1,759,583, 82% of the national total. Four of the six have paid Cuba. Cuba 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 43: seven 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. Leyanis Pérez has been paid by four of them: the Diamond League, the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships and the Ultimate Championship.
Cuba against the rest
Where $2,146,583 puts Cuba
That is 1.6% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 16th out of 130. Cuba has Canada above on $2,287,458 and Norway below on $2,108,833.
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 Cuba
- United States
- Kenya
- Jamaica
- Great Britain
- Ethiopia
- Germany
- Australia
- France
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Sweden
- Italy
- South Africa
- Ukraine
- Canada
- Norway
- China
- Czechia
- Botswana
- Greece
- Switzerland
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Brazil
- RUS
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Bahamas
- Croatia
- Portugal
- Bahrain
- Nigeria
- Morocco
- Dominican Republic
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Belgium
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Qatar
- Serbia
- Colombia
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Cuba won in athletics?
$2,146,583 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 16th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 1.6% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Cuba athlete earns the most prize money?
Leyanis Pérez, on $373,250 from 24 paid finishes and twelve wins. That is 17.4% of everything Cuba has won. Yaime Pérez is next on $307,500.
Does prize money won by Cuba go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to 43 athletes by name. Cuba 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 Cuba have won athletics prize money?
43, sharing $2,146,583 between them, which is $49,921 each. Fifteen of them have won a title, 60 in all. Seven have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Cuba
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 Cuba against the other 129 the sport has paid.