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ATHLETICS · 102nd OF 130 · 6 PAID ATHLETES

Eritrea athletics prize money

Eritrea has taken $31,000 out of athletics, 102nd of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Yemane Haileselassie is the biggest earner on $12,000, 38.7% of the national total.

$27,000 of that belongs to six athletes by name. The other $4,000 is the federation's, won by one team whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.

TOTAL WON $31,000
RANK 102/130
ATHLETES PAID 6
TITLES 0
TO THE FEDERATION $4,000

Every Eritrea athlete athletics has paid

6 of them, biggest first

$27,000 between them
Every athlete from Eritrea who has won athletics prize money, ranked by career total across the six competitions, with which of them paid, how many paid finishes and how many titles.
# ATHLETE PAID WINS TOTAL
1 Yemane Haileselassie Diamond League 5 - $12,000
2 Samsom Amare World Championships 1 - $5,000
3 Nguse Amlosom Diamond League 1 - $4,000
4 Teklemariam Medhin Diamond League 2 - $4,000
5 Abrar Osman Diamond League 1 - $1,000
6 Aron Kifle Diamond League 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. Five of these athletes have a page of their own here.

The biggest earners

All six of them

Yemane Haileselassie $12k
Samsom Amare $5,000
Nguse Amlosom $4,000 Teklemariam Medhin $4,000 Abrar Osman $1,000 Aron Kifle $1,000

Yemane Haileselassie holds 38.7% of everything Eritrea has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 67.7% of it between them, and $4,500 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.

Where the money comes from

All six competitions, and what each has sent Eritrea

$31,000 in all
What each of the six athletics competitions has paid Eritrea, split between money that went to an athlete by name and money that went to the federation.
COMPETITION ATHLETES WINS TO ATHLETES TO FEDERATION TOTAL
Diamond League 5 - $22,000 - $22,000
World Championships 1 - $5,000 - $5,000
Indoor Championships - - - - -
Ultimate Championship - - - - -
World Relays - - - - -
Cross Country - - - $4,000 $4,000
All six 6 0 $27,000 $4,000 $31,000

The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Eritrea on $22,000, 71% of the national total. Three of the six have paid Eritrea. Eritrea has won nothing at the World Indoor Championships, the Ultimate Championship and the World Relays.

The ATHLETES column adds up to 6 because no Eritrea 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.

The cheques that went to the federation

1 team payment, paid to Eritrea rather than to anyone who ran

$4,000 in all
Every team payment Eritrea has been paid: the race, the finishing place, the purse, and the athletes who ran for it.
RACE PLACE WHO RAN PURSE
Senior men's race, 2024 Cross Country 6th Abderezak Suleman, Merhawi Mebrahtu, Awet Habte, Brhane Negasi Gebrekrstos $4,000

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.

Eritrea against the rest

Where $31,000 puts Eritrea

That is under 0.1% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 102nd out of 130. Eritrea has Haiti above on $33,000 and Samoa below on $30,500.

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 Eritrea

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money has Eritrea won in athletics?

$31,000 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 102nd of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.

Which Eritrea athlete earns the most prize money?

Yemane Haileselassie, on $12,000 from five paid finishes. That is 38.7% of everything Eritrea has won. Samsom Amare is next on $5,000.

Does prize money won by Eritrea go to the athlete or the federation?

$27,000 of that belongs to six athletes by name. The other $4,000 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 Eritrea have won athletics prize money?

6, sharing $27,000 between them, which is $4,500 each. None of them has won a title: every payment is a finishing place behind somebody else. Not one of them has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.

Where to next

The competitions that paid Eritrea

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 Eritrea against the other 129 the sport has paid.

The six competitions