Gambia athletics prize money
The Gambia has taken $26,000 out of athletics, 91st of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye is the biggest earner on $16,750, 64.4% of the national total.
All of it belongs to three athletes by name. The Gambia 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 Gambia athlete athletics has paid
3 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye | 3 | 1 | $16,750 |
| 2 | Gina Bass | 6 | — | $6,250 |
| 3 | Sanu Jallow-Lockhart | 1 | — | $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. Three of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All three of them
Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye holds 64.4% of everything the Gambia has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 100% of it between them, and $8,667 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent the Gambia
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 3 | 1 | $26,000 | — | $26,000 |
| World Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Indoor Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ultimate Championship | — | — | — | — | — |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 3 | 1 | $26,000 | — | $26,000 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for the Gambia on $26,000, 100% of the national total. It is also the only one of the six that has ever paid the Gambia anything. The Gambia has won nothing at the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships, the Ultimate Championship, the World Relays and the World Cross Country Championships.
The ATHLETES column adds up to 3 because no Gambia 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 Gambia against the rest
Where $26,000 puts the Gambia
That is under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 91st out of 121. The Gambia has Denmark above on $28,750 and Romania below on $25,500.
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 the Gambia
- Barbados
- Liberia
- Luxembourg
- Burundi
- Austria
- Philippines
- Tanzania
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Namibia
- Chinese Taipei
- Djibouti
- Syria
- Moldova
- Uruguay
- Israel
- Samoa
- Uzbekistan
- Chile
- Denmark
- Romania
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Azerbaijan
- Ghana
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Costa Rica
- Guatemala
- Peru
- Cyprus
- Niger
- Iran
- Montenegro
- Eritrea
- Egypt
- Benin
- Haiti
- Guyana
- Albania
- South Sudan
- Iceland
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has the Gambia won in athletics?
$26,000 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 91st of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Gambia athlete earns the most prize money?
Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye, on $16,750 from three paid finishes and one win. That is 64.4% of everything the Gambia has won. Gina Bass is next on $6,250.
Does prize money won by the Gambia go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to three athletes by name. The Gambia 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 the Gambia have won athletics prize money?
3, sharing $26,000 between them, which is $8,667 each. One of them has won a title, 1 in all. Not one of them has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid the Gambia
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 the Gambia against the other 120 the sport has paid.