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ATHLETICS · 20th OF 121 · 9 PAID ATHLETES

Greece athletics prize money

Greece has taken $987,375 out of athletics, 20th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Miltiadis Tentoglou is the biggest earner on $421,500, 42.7% of the national total.

All of it belongs to nine 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.

TOTAL WON $987,375
RANK 20/121
ATHLETES PAID 9
TITLES 23
TO THE FEDERATION $0

Every Greece athlete athletics has paid

9 of them, biggest first

$987,375 between them
Every athlete from Greece 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 Miltiadis Tentoglou Diamond League, Indoor Championships, Ultimate Championship 31 13 $421,500
2 Emmanouil Karalis Diamond League, World Championships, Indoor Championships, Ultimate Championship 26 3 $320,875
3 Katerina Stefanidi Diamond League 24 4 $142,500
4 Elina Tzengko Diamond League, World Championships 11 3 $76,000
5 Paraskevi Papachristou Diamond League 6 $12,250
6 Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou Diamond League 5 $8,000
7 Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas Diamond League 1 $2,500
8 Nikolaos Andrikopoulos Diamond League 2 $2,250
9 Tatiana Gusin Diamond League 1 $1,500

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. Nine of these athletes have a page of their own here.

The biggest earners

All nine of them

Miltiadis Tentoglou holds 42.7% of everything Greece has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 89.6% of it between them, and $109,708 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

$987,375 in all
What each of the six athletics competitions has paid Greece, 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 9 22 $666,375 $666,375
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 9 23 $987,375 $987,375

The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Greece on $666,375, 67.5% 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 9: 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 $987,375 puts Greece

That is 1.3% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 20th out of 121. Greece has South Africa above on $993,000 and China below on $899,167.

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 Greece

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money has Greece won in athletics?

$987,375 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 20th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 1.3% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.

Which Greece athlete earns the most prize money?

Miltiadis Tentoglou, on $421,500 from 31 paid finishes and thirteen wins. That is 42.7% of everything Greece has won. Emmanouil Karalis is next on $320,875.

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

All of it belongs to nine 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?

9, sharing $987,375 between them, which is $109,708 each. Four of them have won a title, 23 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 120 the sport has paid.

The six competitions