Greece athletics prize money
Greece has taken $1,638,125 out of athletics, 21st of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Miltiadis Tentoglou is the biggest earner on $423,500, 25.9% of the national total.
All of it belongs to 18 athletes by name. Greece 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 Greece athlete athletics has paid
18 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miltiadis Tentoglou | 32 | 13 | $423,500 |
| 2 | Katerina Stefanidi | 50 | 15 | $394,500 |
| 3 | Emmanouil Karalis | 26 | 3 | $320,875 |
| 4 | Konstantinos Filippidis | 40 | 6 | $161,000 |
| 5 | Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou | 30 | 5 | $133,250 |
| 6 | Elina Tzengko | 11 | 3 | $76,000 |
| 7 | Paraskevi Papachristou | 14 | - | $38,250 |
| 8 | Dimitrios Chondrokoukis | 4 | 2 | $25,000 |
| 9 | Louis Tsatoumas | 6 | 1 | $24,000 |
| 10 | Konstantinos Baniotis | 5 | - | $13,500 |
| 11 | Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas | 5 | - | $12,000 |
| 12 | Antonios Mastoras | 1 | - | $4,000 |
| 13 | Konstantinos Douvalidis | 2 | - | $4,000 |
| 14 | Nikolaos Andrikopoulos | 2 | - | $2,250 |
| 15 | Niki Panetta | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 16 | Dimitrios Tsiamis | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 17 | Tatiana Gusin | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 18 | Spiridon Lempesis | 1 | - | $1,000 |
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. 18 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 18
Miltiadis Tentoglou holds 25.9% of everything Greece has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 69.5% of it between them, and $91,007 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Greece
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 18 | 47 | $1,317,125 | - | $1,317,125 |
| World Championships | 2 | - | $46,000 | - | $46,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 2 | - | $50,000 | - | $50,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | 2 | 1 | $225,000 | - | $225,000 |
| World Relays | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 18 | 48 | $1,638,125$1.6m | - | $1,638,125$1.6m |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Greece on $1,317,125, 80.4% of the national total. Four of the six have paid Greece. Greece has won nothing at 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 18: three athletes have been paid by more than one of the six, and are counted in every row that paid them and once in the national total. Miltiadis Tentoglou has been paid by three of them: the Diamond League, the World Indoor Championships and the Ultimate Championship.
Greece against the rest
Where $1,638,125 puts Greece
That is 1.2% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 21st out of 130. Greece has Botswana above on $1,657,250 and Switzerland below on $1,594,458.
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 Greece
- United States
- Kenya
- Jamaica
- Great Britain
- Ethiopia
- Germany
- Australia
- France
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Sweden
- Italy
- South Africa
- Ukraine
- Canada
- Cuba
- Norway
- China
- Czechia
- Botswana
- Switzerland
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Brazil
- RUS
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Bahamas
- Croatia
- Portugal
- Bahrain
- Nigeria
- Morocco
- Dominican Republic
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Belgium
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Qatar
- Serbia
- Colombia
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Greece won in athletics?
$1,638,125 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 21st of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 1.2% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Greece athlete earns the most prize money?
Miltiadis Tentoglou, on $423,500 from 32 paid finishes and thirteen wins. That is 25.9% of everything Greece has won. Katerina Stefanidi is next on $394,500.
Does prize money won by Greece go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to 18 athletes by name. Greece 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 Greece have won athletics prize money?
18, sharing $1,638,125 between them, which is $91,007 each. Eight of them have won a title, 48 in all. Three have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Greece
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 Greece against the other 129 the sport has paid.