Denmark athletics prize money
Denmark has taken $28,750 out of athletics, 90th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Ida Karstoft is the biggest earner on $17,250, 60% of the national total.
All of it belongs to nine athletes by name. Denmark 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 Denmark athlete athletics has paid
9 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ida Karstoft | 5 | 1 | $17,250 |
| 2 | Katrine Koch Jacobsen | 1 | — | $5,000 |
| 3 | Sara Petersen | 1 | — | $1,250 |
| 4 | Benjamin Lobo Vedel | 1 | — | $1,000 |
| 5 | Emma Beiter Bomme | 1 | — | $1,000 |
| 6 | Lisa Brix Pedersen | 1 | — | $1,000 |
| 7 | Ole Hesselbjerg | 1 | — | $1,000 |
| 8 | Caroline Bonde Holm | 1 | — | $750 |
| 9 | Juliane Hvid | 1 | — | $500 |
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. Eight of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All nine of them
Ida Karstoft holds 60% of everything Denmark has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 81.7% of it between them, and $3,194 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Denmark
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 8 | 1 | $23,750 | — | $23,750 |
| World Championships | 1 | — | $5,000 | — | $5,000 |
| Indoor Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ultimate Championship | — | — | — | — | — |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 9 | 1 | $28,750 | — | $28,750 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Denmark on $23,750, 82.6% of the national total. Two of the six have paid Denmark. Denmark has won nothing at the World Indoor Championships, the Ultimate Championship, the World Relays and the World Cross Country Championships.
The ATHLETES column adds up to 9 because no Denmark 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.
Denmark against the rest
Where $28,750 puts Denmark
That is under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 90th out of 121. Denmark has Chile above on $29,750 and the Gambia below on $26,000.
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 Denmark
- Cameroon
- Barbados
- Liberia
- Luxembourg
- Burundi
- Austria
- Philippines
- Tanzania
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Namibia
- Chinese Taipei
- Djibouti
- Syria
- Moldova
- Uruguay
- Israel
- Samoa
- Uzbekistan
- Chile
- Gambia
- Romania
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Azerbaijan
- Ghana
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Costa Rica
- Guatemala
- Peru
- Cyprus
- Niger
- Iran
- Montenegro
- Eritrea
- Egypt
- Benin
- Haiti
- Guyana
- Albania
- South Sudan
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Denmark won in athletics?
$28,750 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 90th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Denmark athlete earns the most prize money?
Ida Karstoft, on $17,250 from five paid finishes and one win. That is 60% of everything Denmark has won. Katrine Koch Jacobsen is next on $5,000.
Does prize money won by Denmark go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to nine athletes by name. Denmark 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 Denmark have won athletics prize money?
9, sharing $28,750 between them, which is $3,194 each. One of them has won a title, 1 in all. Not one of them has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Denmark
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 Denmark against the other 120 the sport has paid.