Finland athletics prize money
Finland has taken $159,500 out of athletics, 62nd of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Saga Vanninen is the biggest earner on $46,000, 28.8% of the national total.
All of it belongs to 19 athletes by name. Finland 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 Finland athlete athletics has paid
19 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saga Vanninen | 2 | 1 | $46,000 |
| 2 | Wilma Murto | 8 | 1 | $32,500 |
| 3 | Oliver Helander | 7 | — | $19,250 |
| 4 | Silja Kosonen | 1 | — | $16,000 |
| 5 | Alisa Vainio | 1 | — | $11,000 |
| 6 | Viivi Lehikoinen | 5 | — | $9,000 |
| 7 | Tero Pitkämäki | 2 | — | $6,000 |
| 8 | Senni Salminen | 2 | — | $3,000 |
| 9 | Lassi Etelätalo | 2 | — | $2,500 |
| 10 | Ilona Mononen | 1 | — | $2,000 |
| 11 | Kristian Pulli | 2 | — | $2,000 |
| 12 | Reetta Hurske | 2 | — | $2,000 |
| 13 | Kristiina Mäkelä | 3 | — | $1,750 |
| 14 | Nathalie Blomqvist | 2 | — | $1,500 |
| 15 | Toni Keränen | 2 | — | $1,500 |
| 16 | Eveliina Määttänen | 1 | — | $1,000 |
| 17 | Wilma Heltelä | 1 | — | $1,000 |
| 18 | Ella Junnila | 1 | — | $750 |
| 19 | Heta Tuuri | 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. Sixteen of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 19
Saga Vanninen holds 28.8% of everything Finland has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 61.3% of it between them, and $8,395 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Finland
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 16 | 1 | $86,500 | — | $86,500 |
| World Championships | 3 | — | $33,000 | — | $33,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 1 | 1 | $40,000 | — | $40,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | — | — | — | — | — |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 19 | 2 | $159,500 | — | $159,500 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Finland on $86,500, 54.2% of the national total. Three of the six have paid Finland. Finland 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 19: 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. Saga Vanninen has been paid by two of them: the World Championships and the World Indoor Championships.
Finland against the rest
Where $159,500 puts Finland
That is 0.2% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 62nd out of 121. Finland has Mexico above on $163,583 and Belarus below on $137,000.
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 Finland
- Qatar
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Ireland
- Sri Lanka
- Lithuania
- Croatia
- Venezuela
- Senegal
- Puerto Rico
- India
- Slovakia
- Turkey
- Colombia
- Kazakhstan
- South Korea
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Burkina Faso
- Estonia
- Mexico
- Belarus
- Dominica
- Latvia
- British Virgin Islands
- Ecuador
- Panama
- Tunisia
- Cameroon
- Barbados
- Liberia
- Luxembourg
- Burundi
- Austria
- Philippines
- Tanzania
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Namibia
- Chinese Taipei
- Djibouti
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Finland won in athletics?
$159,500 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 62nd of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 0.2% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Finland athlete earns the most prize money?
Saga Vanninen, on $46,000 from two paid finishes and one win. That is 28.8% of everything Finland has won. Wilma Murto is next on $32,500.
Does prize money won by Finland go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to 19 athletes by name. Finland 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 Finland have won athletics prize money?
19, sharing $159,500 between them, which is $8,395 each. Two of them have won a title, 2 in all. One has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Finland
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 Finland against the other 120 the sport has paid.