Czechia athletics prize money
Czechia has taken $1,752,792 out of athletics, 19th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Barbora Špotáková is the biggest earner on $365,500, 20.9% of the national total.
$1,749,792 of that belongs to 30 athletes by name. The other $3,000 is the federation's, won by one team whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.
Every Czechia athlete athletics has paid
30 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barbora Špotáková | 52 | 19 | $365,500 |
| 2 | Jakub Vadlejch | 45 | 9 | $281,750 |
| 3 | Zuzana Hejnová | 41 | 16 | $272,000 |
| 4 | Vítězslav Veselý | 38 | 8 | $183,000 |
| 5 | Lurdes Gloria Manuel | 7 | 1 | $65,750 |
| 6 | Nikola Ogrodníková | 16 | 1 | $59,250 |
| 7 | Denisa Rosolová | 17 | - | $49,500 |
| 8 | Pavel Maslák | 19 | - | $48,500 |
| 9 | Amálie Švábíková | 12 | - | $45,000 |
| 10 | Tomáš Staněk | 18 | - | $44,500 |
| 11 | Jan Štefela | 11 | - | $41,958 |
| 12 | Jan Kudlička | 14 | - | $40,000 |
| 13 | Petr Frydrych | 12 | 1 | $40,000 |
| 14 | Jaroslav Bába | 14 | 1 | $33,750 |
| 15 | Jiřina Ptáčníková | 14 | - | $33,000 |
| 16 | Ladislav Prášil | 10 | - | $24,500 |
| 17 | Jakub Holuša | 10 | - | $23,000 |
| 18 | Michaela Hrubá | 4 | - | $17,583 |
| 19 | Radek Juška | 7 | - | $16,000 |
| 20 | Vilém Stráský | 2 | - | $14,000 |
| 21 | Jarmila Jurkovičová | 5 | - | $10,500 |
| 22 | Lenka Masná | 3 | - | $8,000 |
| 23 | Michal Balner | 4 | - | $7,750 |
| 24 | Petr Svoboda | 3 | - | $7,000 |
| 25 | Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová | 3 | - | $7,000 |
| 26 | Tomáš Horák | 1 | - | $6,000 |
| 27 | Lucie Májková | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 28 | Lucie Škrobáková | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 29 | Lada Vondrová | 1 | - | $1,250 |
| 30 | Nikoleta Jíchová | 1 | - | $750 |
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. 28 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 30
Barbora Špotáková holds 20.9% of everything Czechia has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 52.4% of it between them, and $58,326 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Czechia
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 28 | 55 | $1,634,792$1.6m | - | $1,634,792$1.6m |
| World Championships | 2 | - | $38,000 | - | $38,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 5 | 1 | $77,000 | - | $77,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | - | - | - | - | - |
| World Relays | - | - | - | $3,000 | $3,000 |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 30 | 56 | $1,749,792$1.7m | $3,000 | $1,752,792$1.8m |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Czechia on $1,634,792, 93.3% of the national total. Four of the six have paid Czechia. Czechia has won nothing at the Ultimate Championship and the World Cross Country Championships.
The ATHLETES column counts the people each competition paid, so it does not add up to 30: three 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. Lurdes Gloria Manuel has been paid by two of them: the Diamond League and the World Indoor Championships.
The cheques that went to the federation
1 team payment, paid to Czechia rather than to anyone who ran
| RACE | PLACE | WHO RAN | PURSE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2026 | 7th | Barbora Malíková, Nikola Bisovà, Terezie Táborská, Lurdes Gloria Manuel | $3,000 |
None of this is in any athlete's total above, here or anywhere else on the site. A relay purse is paid to the team whole, a World Relays ladder place is a country's, and a cross country team standing pays the federation behind the first four runners home.
Czechia against the rest
Where $1,752,792 puts Czechia
That is 1.3% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 19th out of 130. Czechia has China above on $1,813,250 and Botswana below on $1,657,250.
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 Czechia
- United States
- Kenya
- Jamaica
- Great Britain
- Ethiopia
- Germany
- Australia
- France
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Sweden
- Italy
- South Africa
- Ukraine
- Canada
- Cuba
- Norway
- China
- 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 Czechia won in athletics?
$1,752,792 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 19th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 1.3% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Czechia athlete earns the most prize money?
Barbora Špotáková, on $365,500 from 52 paid finishes and 19 wins. That is 20.9% of everything Czechia has won. Jakub Vadlejch is next on $281,750.
Does prize money won by Czechia go to the athlete or the federation?
$1,749,792 of that belongs to 30 athletes by name. The other $3,000 is the federation's, won by one team whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.
How many athletes from Czechia have won athletics prize money?
30, sharing $1,749,792 between them, which is $58,326 each. Eight of them have won a title, 56 in all. Three have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Czechia
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 Czechia against the other 129 the sport has paid.