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ATHLETICS · 104th OF 121 · 2 PAID ATHLETES

Eritrea athletics prize money

Eritrea has taken $10,500 out of athletics, 104th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Samsom Amare is the biggest earner on $5,000, 47.6% of the national total.

$6,500 of that belongs to two 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 $10,500
RANK 104/121
ATHLETES PAID 2
TITLES 0
TO THE FEDERATION $4,000

Every Eritrea athlete athletics has paid

2 of them, biggest first

$6,500 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 Samsom Amare World Championships 1 — $5,000
2 Yemane Haileselassie Diamond League 2 — $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. One of these athletes has a page of their own here.

The biggest earners

All two of them

Samsom Amare $5,000
Yemane Haileselassie $1,500

Samsom Amare holds 47.6% of everything Eritrea has won in athletics. The two biggest hold 61.9% of it between them, and $3,250 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

$10,500 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 1 — $1,500 — $1,500
World Championships 1 — $5,000 — $5,000
Indoor Championships — — — — —
Ultimate Championship — — — — —
World Relays — — — — —
Cross Country — — — $4,000 $4,000
All six 2 0 $6,500 $4,000 $10,500

The World Championships is the biggest of the six for Eritrea on $5,000, 47.6% 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 2 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 $10,500 puts Eritrea

That is under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 104th out of 121. Eritrea has Montenegro above on $11,750 and Egypt below on $10,250.

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 Eritrea

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money has Eritrea won in athletics?

$10,500 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 104th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.

Which Eritrea athlete earns the most prize money?

Samsom Amare, on $5,000 from one paid finish. That is 47.6% of everything Eritrea has won. Yemane Haileselassie is next on $1,500.

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

$6,500 of that belongs to two 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?

2, sharing $6,500 between them, which is $3,250 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 120 the sport has paid.

The six competitions