Czechia athletics prize money
Czechia has taken $487,208 out of athletics, 33rd of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Jakub Vadlejch is the biggest earner on $161,250, 33.1% of the national total.
$484,208 of that belongs to 17 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
17 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jakub Vadlejch | 29 | 5 | $161,250 |
| 2 | Lurdes Gloria Manuel | 7 | 1 | $65,750 |
| 3 | Amálie Švábíková | 12 | — | $45,000 |
| 4 | Jan Štefela | 11 | — | $41,958 |
| 5 | Barbora Špotáková | 12 | 1 | $39,000 |
| 6 | Nikola Ogrodníková | 12 | — | $37,250 |
| 7 | Zuzana Hejnová | 6 | — | $28,500 |
| 8 | Tomáš Staněk | 11 | — | $18,500 |
| 9 | Vilém Stráský | 2 | — | $14,000 |
| 10 | Radek Juška | 5 | — | $11,000 |
| 11 | Tomáš Horák | 1 | — | $6,000 |
| 12 | Pavel Maslák | 2 | — | $5,500 |
| 13 | Vítězslav Veselý | 4 | — | $4,000 |
| 14 | Jakub Holuša | 2 | — | $3,500 |
| 15 | Lada Vondrová | 1 | — | $1,250 |
| 16 | Jan Kudlička | 1 | — | $1,000 |
| 17 | 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. Fifteen of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 17
Jakub Vadlejch holds 33.1% of everything Czechia has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 55.8% of it between them, and $28,483 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 | 15 | 6 | $369,208 | — | $369,208 |
| 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 | 17 | 7 | $484,208 | $3,000 | $487,208 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Czechia on $369,208, 75.8% 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 17: 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 $487,208 puts Czechia
That is 0.6% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 33rd out of 121. Czechia has Uganda above on $514,750 and Morocco below on $479,250.
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 Czechia
- Canada
- Switzerland
- France
- Cuba
- Poland
- Botswana
- South Africa
- Greece
- China
- Brazil
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Dominican Republic
- Portugal
- Japan
- Nigeria
- Bahrain
- Belgium
- Slovenia
- Uganda
- Morocco
- Algeria
- Bahamas
- Serbia
- Grenada
- Saint Lucia
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Ivory Coast
- Qatar
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Ireland
- Sri Lanka
- Lithuania
- Croatia
- Venezuela
- Senegal
- Puerto Rico
- India
- Slovakia
- Turkey
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Czechia won in athletics?
$487,208 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 33rd of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 0.6% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Czechia athlete earns the most prize money?
Jakub Vadlejch, on $161,250 from 29 paid finishes and five wins. That is 33.1% of everything Czechia has won. Lurdes Gloria Manuel is next on $65,750.
Does prize money won by Czechia go to the athlete or the federation?
$484,208 of that belongs to 17 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?
17, sharing $484,208 between them, which is $28,483 each. Three of them have won a title, 7 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 120 the sport has paid.