Cuba athletics prize money
Cuba has taken $1,246,250 out of athletics, 16th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Leyanis Pérez is the biggest earner on $373,250, 29.9% of the national total.
All of it belongs to 18 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
18 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leyanis Pérez | 24 | 12 | $373,250 |
| 2 | Yaime Pérez | 20 | 5 | $178,000 |
| 3 | Davisleydi Velazco | 8 | 2 | $122,000 |
| 4 | Liadagmis Povea | 23 | — | $113,000 |
| 5 | Lázaro Martínez | 19 | 2 | $86,500 |
| 6 | Juan Miguel Echevarría | 5 | 3 | $82,000 |
| 7 | Denia Caballero | 13 | 2 | $59,000 |
| 8 | Reynier Mena | 13 | 2 | $44,000 |
| 9 | Yarisley Silva | 8 | 1 | $29,500 |
| 10 | Maykel Massó | 5 | 1 | $25,000 |
| 11 | Roxana Gómez | 8 | — | $25,000 |
| 12 | Jorge A. Hodelín | 6 | — | $23,500 |
| 13 | Silinda Morales | 2 | — | $23,000 |
| 14 | Jordan Díaz | 3 | 1 | $20,500 |
| 15 | Kendry Menéndez | 4 | — | $14,500 |
| 16 | Rose Mary Almanza | 2 | 1 | $11,500 |
| 17 | Mario Díaz | 1 | — | $11,000 |
| 18 | Luis Zayas | 3 | — | $5,000 |
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. 17 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 18
Leyanis Pérez holds 29.9% of everything Cuba has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 54% of it between them, and $69,236 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 | 17 | 29 | $859,250 | — | $859,250 |
| 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 | 18 | 32 | $1,246,250 | — | $1,246,250 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Cuba on $859,250, 68.9% 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 18: 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 $1,246,250 puts Cuba
That is 1.7% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 16th out of 121. Cuba has France above on $1,290,042 and Poland below on $1,155,542.
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 Cuba
- United States
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Great Britain
- Ethiopia
- Australia
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Sweden
- Germany
- Norway
- Ukraine
- Canada
- Switzerland
- France
- Poland
- Botswana
- South Africa
- Greece
- China
- Brazil
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Dominican Republic
- Portugal
- Japan
- Nigeria
- Bahrain
- Belgium
- Slovenia
- Uganda
- Czechia
- Morocco
- Algeria
- Bahamas
- Serbia
- Grenada
- Saint Lucia
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Ivory Coast
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Cuba won in athletics?
$1,246,250 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 121 countries athletics has paid, and 1.7% of the $74,963,667 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 29.9% of everything Cuba has won. Yaime Pérez is next on $178,000.
Does prize money won by Cuba go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to 18 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?
18, sharing $1,246,250 between them, which is $69,236 each. Eleven of them have won a title, 32 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 120 the sport has paid.