Hong Kong athletics prize money
Hong Kong has taken $500 out of athletics, 121st of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Yue Ya Xin is the only athlete on it, on $500.
All of it belongs to one athlete by name. Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong athlete athletics has paid
1 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yue Ya Xin | 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. One of these athletes has a page of their own here.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Hong Kong
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 1 | — | $500 | — | $500 |
| World Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Indoor Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ultimate Championship | — | — | — | — | — |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 1 | 0 | $500 | — | $500 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Hong Kong on $500, 100% of the national total. It is also the only one of the six that has ever paid Hong Kong anything. Hong Kong 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 1 because no Hong Kong 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.
Hong Kong against the rest
Where $500 puts Hong Kong
That is under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 121st out of 121. Hong Kong has the Congo above on $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 Hong Kong
- Chinese Taipei
- Djibouti
- Syria
- Moldova
- Uruguay
- Israel
- Samoa
- Uzbekistan
- Chile
- Denmark
- Gambia
- 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
- Pakistan
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Kuwait
- Thailand
- Bermuda
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saudi Arabia
- Somalia
- Congo
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Hong Kong won in athletics?
$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 121st of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Hong Kong athlete earns the most prize money?
Yue Ya Xin, on $500 from one paid finish. That is 100% of everything Hong Kong has won. No other Hong Kong athlete has been paid at all.
Does prize money won by Hong Kong go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to one athlete by name. Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong have won athletics prize money?
One. Yue Ya Xin is the whole of the athletes' side of this page, on $500 from one paid finish and no win.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Hong Kong
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 Hong Kong against the other 120 the sport has paid.