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ATHLETICS · 105th OF 130 · 3 PAID ATHLETES

Iceland athletics prize money

Iceland has taken $30,000 out of athletics, 105th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir is the biggest earner on $23,500, 78.3% of the national total.

All of it belongs to three athletes by name. Iceland 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 $30,000
RANK 105/130
ATHLETES PAID 3
TITLES 0
TO THE FEDERATION $0

Every Iceland athlete athletics has paid

3 of them, biggest first

$30,000 between them
Every athlete from Iceland 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 Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir Diamond League 13 - $23,500
2 Aníta Hinriksdóttir Diamond League 3 - $4,500
3 Óðinn Björn Þorsteinsson Diamond League 1 - $2,000

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

The biggest earners

All three of them

Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir $23k Aníta Hinriksdóttir $4,500 Óðinn Björn Þorsteinsson $2,000

Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir holds 78.3% of everything Iceland has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 100% of it between them, and $10,000 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.

Where the money comes from

All six competitions, and what each has sent Iceland

$30,000 in all
What each of the six athletics competitions has paid Iceland, 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 3 - $30,000 - $30,000
World Championships - - - - -
Indoor Championships - - - - -
Ultimate Championship - - - - -
World Relays - - - - -
Cross Country - - - - -
All six 3 0 $30,000 - $30,000

The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Iceland on $30,000, 100% of the national total. It is also the only one of the six that has ever paid Iceland anything. Iceland 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 3 because no Iceland 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.

Iceland against the rest

Where $30,000 puts Iceland

That is under 0.1% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 105th out of 130. Iceland has Guyana above on $30,250 and Costa Rica below on $28,000.

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 Iceland

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money has Iceland won in athletics?

$30,000 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 105th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.

Which Iceland athlete earns the most prize money?

Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir, on $23,500 from thirteen paid finishes. That is 78.3% of everything Iceland has won. Aníta Hinriksdóttir is next on $4,500.

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

All of it belongs to three athletes by name. Iceland 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 Iceland have won athletics prize money?

3, sharing $30,000 between them, which is $10,000 each. None of them has won a title: every payment is a finishing place behind somebody else. Not one of them has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.

Where to next

The competitions that paid Iceland

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 Iceland against the other 129 the sport has paid.

The six competitions