Estonia athletics prize money
Estonia has taken $509,000 out of athletics, 50th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Gerd Kanter is the biggest earner on $194,000, 38.1% of the national total.
All of it belongs to eleven athletes by name. Estonia 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 Estonia athlete athletics has paid
11 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gerd Kanter | 40 | 9 | $194,000 |
| 2 | Magnus Kirt | 12 | 2 | $112,500 |
| 3 | Rasmus Mägi | 33 | - | $104,250 |
| 4 | Johannes Erm | 2 | - | $31,000 |
| 5 | Martin Kupper | 9 | - | $16,500 |
| 6 | Ksenija Balta | 5 | - | $14,000 |
| 7 | Märt Israel | 7 | - | $14,000 |
| 8 | Liina Laasma | 3 | - | $10,000 |
| 9 | Anna Iljuštšenko | 4 | - | $6,250 |
| 10 | Eleriin Haas | 1 | - | $3,500 |
| 11 | Elisabeth Pihela | 2 | - | $3,000 |
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. Ten of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All eleven of them
Gerd Kanter holds 38.1% of everything Estonia has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 80.7% of it between them, and $46,273 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Estonia
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 10 | 11 | $478,000 | - | $478,000 |
| World Championships | 1 | - | $11,000 | - | $11,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 1 | - | $20,000 | - | $20,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | - | - | - | - | - |
| World Relays | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 11 | 11 | $509,000 | - | $509,000 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Estonia on $478,000, 93.9% of the national total. Three of the six have paid Estonia. Estonia has won nothing at the Ultimate Championship, the World Relays and the World Cross Country Championships.
The ATHLETES column counts the people each competition paid, so it does not add up to 11: one athlete has been paid by more than one of the six, and is counted in every row that paid them and once in the national total. Johannes Erm has been paid by two of them: the World Championships and the World Indoor Championships.
Estonia against the rest
Where $509,000 puts Estonia
That is 0.4% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 50th out of 130. Estonia has Finland above on $513,750 and Puerto Rico below on $469,000.
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 Estonia
- Portugal
- Bahrain
- Nigeria
- Morocco
- Dominican Republic
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Belgium
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Qatar
- Serbia
- Colombia
- Slovenia
- Grenada
- Uganda
- Kazakhstan
- Lithuania
- Algeria
- Saint Lucia
- Finland
- Puerto Rico
- Belarus
- Turkey
- Ireland
- Latvia
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Venezuela
- Panama
- Sri Lanka
- India
- Slovakia
- Burundi
- Senegal
- British Virgin Islands
- Djibouti
- Mexico
- South Korea
- Tunisia
- Burkina Faso
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Estonia won in athletics?
$509,000 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 50th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 0.4% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Estonia athlete earns the most prize money?
Gerd Kanter, on $194,000 from 40 paid finishes and nine wins. That is 38.1% of everything Estonia has won. Magnus Kirt is next on $112,500.
Does prize money won by Estonia go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to eleven athletes by name. Estonia 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 Estonia have won athletics prize money?
11, sharing $509,000 between them, which is $46,273 each. Two of them have won a title, 11 in all. One has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Estonia
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 Estonia against the other 129 the sport has paid. European Championships prize money sits outside those six and none of it is in the figures above: Estonia has been paid €50,000 in Gold Crowns there, through Johannes Erm.