Finland athletics prize money
Finland has taken $513,750 out of athletics, 49th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Tero Pitkämäki is the biggest earner on $202,000, 39.3% of the national total.
All of it belongs to 33 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
33 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tero Pitkämäki | 36 | 10 | $202,000 |
| 2 | Antti Ruuskanen | 14 | 1 | $49,000 |
| 3 | Ari Mannio | 21 | - | $48,000 |
| 4 | Saga Vanninen | 2 | 1 | $46,000 |
| 5 | Wilma Heltelä | 11 | 1 | $37,000 |
| 6 | Teemu Wirkkala | 6 | - | $21,000 |
| 7 | Oliver Helander | 7 | - | $19,250 |
| 8 | Silja Kosonen | 1 | - | $16,000 |
| 9 | Alisa Vainio | 1 | - | $11,000 |
| 10 | Tommi Evilä | 4 | - | $9,000 |
| 11 | Viivi Lehikoinen | 5 | - | $9,000 |
| 12 | Osku Torro | 2 | - | $8,250 |
| 13 | Lassi Etelätalo | 4 | - | $6,000 |
| 14 | Senni Salminen | 2 | - | $3,000 |
| 15 | Harri Haatainen | 2 | - | $2,500 |
| 16 | Arttu Pajulahti | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 17 | Ilona Mononen | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 18 | Kristian Pulli | 2 | - | $2,000 |
| 19 | Reetta Hurske | 2 | - | $2,000 |
| 20 | Sandra Eriksson | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 21 | Simo Lipsanen | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 22 | Kristiina Mäkelä | 3 | - | $1,750 |
| 23 | Hanna-Maari Latvala | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 24 | Jonathan Åstrand | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 25 | Minna Nikkanen | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 26 | Nathalie Blomqvist | 2 | - | $1,500 |
| 27 | Toni Keränen | 2 | - | $1,500 |
| 28 | Eveliina Määttänen | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 29 | Jukka Keskisalo | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 30 | Sanna Kämäräinen | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 31 | Sanni Utriainen | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 32 | Ella Junnila | 1 | - | $750 |
| 33 | 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. 30 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 33
Tero Pitkämäki holds 39.3% of everything Finland has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 58.2% of it between them, and $15,568 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 | 30 | 12 | $440,750 | - | $440,750 |
| World Championships | 3 | - | $33,000 | - | $33,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 1 | 1 | $40,000 | - | $40,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | - | - | - | - | - |
| World Relays | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 33 | 13 | $513,750 | - | $513,750 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Finland on $440,750, 85.8% 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 33: 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 $513,750 puts Finland
That is 0.4% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 49th out of 130. Finland has Saint Lucia above on $514,758 and Estonia below on $509,000.
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 Finland
- Croatia
- Portugal
- Bahrain
- Nigeria
- Morocco
- Dominican Republic
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Belgium
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Qatar
- Serbia
- Colombia
- Slovenia
- Grenada
- Uganda
- Kazakhstan
- Lithuania
- Algeria
- Saint Lucia
- Estonia
- Puerto Rico
- Belarus
- Turkey
- Ireland
- Latvia
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Venezuela
- Panama
- Sri Lanka
- India
- Slovakia
- Burundi
- Senegal
- British Virgin Islands
- Djibouti
- Mexico
- South Korea
- Tunisia
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Finland won in athletics?
$513,750 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 49th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 0.4% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Finland athlete earns the most prize money?
Tero Pitkämäki, on $202,000 from 36 paid finishes and ten wins. That is 39.3% of everything Finland has won. Antti Ruuskanen is next on $49,000.
Does prize money won by Finland go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to 33 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?
33, sharing $513,750 between them, which is $15,568 each. Four of them have won a title, 13 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 129 the sport has paid.