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ATHLETICS · 95th OF 121 · 1 PAID ATHLETES

Ghana athletics prize money

Ghana has taken $20,500 out of athletics, 95th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Benjamin Azamati is the only athlete on it, on $4,500.

$4,500 of that belongs to one athlete by name. The other $16,000 is the federation's, won by one team whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.

TOTAL WON $20,500
RANK 95/121
ATHLETES PAID 1
TITLES 0
TO THE FEDERATION $16,000

Every Ghana athlete athletics has paid

1 of them, biggest first

$4,500 between them
Every athlete from Ghana 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 Benjamin Azamati Diamond League 4 — $4,500

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.

Where the money comes from

All six competitions, and what each has sent Ghana

$20,500 in all
What each of the six athletics competitions has paid Ghana, 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 — $4,500 — $4,500
World Championships — — — $16,000 $16,000
Indoor Championships — — — — —
Ultimate Championship — — — — —
World Relays — — — — —
Cross Country — — — — —
All six 1 0 $4,500 $16,000 $20,500

The World Championships is the biggest of the six for Ghana on $16,000, 78% of the national total. Two of the six have paid Ghana. Ghana has won nothing at the World Indoor Championships, the Ultimate Championship, the World Relays and the World Cross Country Championships.

The ATHLETES column adds up to 1 because no Ghana 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 Ghana rather than to anyone who ran

$16,000 in all
Every team payment Ghana has been paid: the race, the finishing place, the purse, and the athletes who ran for it.
RACE PLACE WHO RAN PURSE
Men's 4 × 100 metres relay, 2025 World Championships 4th Ibrahim Fuseini, Benjamin Azamati, Joseph Amoah, Abdul-Rasheed Saminu $16,000

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.

Ghana against the rest

Where $20,500 puts Ghana

That is under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 95th out of 121. Ghana has Azerbaijan above on $20,500 and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines below on $17,750.

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 Ghana

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money has Ghana won in athletics?

$20,500 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 95th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.

Which Ghana athlete earns the most prize money?

Benjamin Azamati, on $4,500 from four paid finishes. That is 22% of everything Ghana has won. No other Ghana athlete has been paid at all.

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

$4,500 of that belongs to one athlete by name. The other $16,000 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 Ghana have won athletics prize money?

One. Benjamin Azamati is the whole of the athletes' side of this page, on $4,500 from four paid finishes and no win.

Where to next

The competitions that paid Ghana

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 Ghana against the other 120 the sport has paid.

The six competitions