Hungary athletics prize money
Hungary has taken $361,833 out of athletics, 57th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Anita Márton is the biggest earner on $105,000, 29% of the national total.
$347,833 of that belongs to twelve athletes by name. The other $14,000 is the federation's, won by two teams whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.
Every Hungary athlete athletics has paid
12 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anita Márton | 28 | - | $105,000 |
| 2 | Bence Halász | 2 | - | $97,000 |
| 3 | Zoltán Kővágó | 18 | 1 | $74,500 |
| 4 | Attila Molnár | 8 | - | $21,750 |
| 5 | Balázs Baji | 8 | - | $17,500 |
| 6 | Szabina Szűcs | 2 | - | $10,000 |
| 7 | Luca Kozák | 2 | - | $7,500 |
| 8 | Boglárka Takács | 6 | - | $7,250 |
| 9 | Ármin Szabados | 1 | - | $5,000 |
| 10 | Péter Bakosi | 1 | - | $1,250 |
| 11 | Anasztázia Nguyen | 1 | - | $750 |
| 12 | Barbara Szabó | 1 | - | $333 |
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 twelve of them
Anita Márton holds 29% of everything Hungary has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 76.4% of it between them, and $28,986 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Hungary
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 9 | 1 | $223,833 | - | $223,833 |
| World Championships | 2 | - | $27,000 | - | $27,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 2 | - | $22,000 | $14,000 | $36,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | 1 | - | $75,000 | - | $75,000 |
| World Relays | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 12 | 1 | $347,833 | $14,000 | $361,833 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Hungary on $223,833, 61.9% of the national total. Four of the six have paid Hungary. Hungary 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 12: two 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. Bence Halász has been paid by two of them: the World Championships and the Ultimate Championship.
The cheques that went to the federation
2 team payments, paid to Hungary rather than to anyone who ran
| RACE | PLACE | WHO RAN | PURSE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2025 | 3rd | Patrik Simon Enyingi, Zoltán Wahl, Árpád Kovács, Attila Molnár | $10,000 |
| Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2026 | 6th | Árpád Kovács, Zoltán Wahl, Ernő Steigerwald, Csanád Csahóczi | $4,000 |
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.
Hungary against the rest
Where $361,833 puts Hungary
That is 0.3% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 57th out of 130. Hungary has Bulgaria above on $366,333 and Venezuela below on $341,250.
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 Hungary
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Qatar
- Serbia
- Colombia
- Slovenia
- Grenada
- Uganda
- Kazakhstan
- Lithuania
- Algeria
- Saint Lucia
- Finland
- Estonia
- Puerto Rico
- Belarus
- Turkey
- Ireland
- Latvia
- Bulgaria
- Venezuela
- Panama
- Sri Lanka
- India
- Slovakia
- Burundi
- Senegal
- British Virgin Islands
- Djibouti
- Mexico
- South Korea
- Tunisia
- Burkina Faso
- Ecuador
- Azerbaijan
- Austria
- Barbados
- Romania
- Dominica
- Denmark
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Hungary won in athletics?
$361,833 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 57th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 0.3% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Hungary athlete earns the most prize money?
Anita Márton, on $105,000 from 28 paid finishes. That is 29% of everything Hungary has won. Bence Halász is next on $97,000.
Does prize money won by Hungary go to the athlete or the federation?
$347,833 of that belongs to twelve athletes by name. The other $14,000 is the federation's, won by two teams whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.
How many athletes from Hungary have won athletics prize money?
12, sharing $347,833 between them, which is $28,986 each. One of them has won a title, 1 in all. Two have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Hungary
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 Hungary against the other 129 the sport has paid.