India athletics prize money
India has taken $284,000 out of athletics, 61st of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Neeraj Chopra is the biggest earner on $170,500, 60% of the national total.
All of it belongs to 17 athletes by name. India 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 India athlete athletics has paid
17 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neeraj Chopra | 23 | 5 | $170,500 |
| 2 | Vikas Gowda | 18 | - | $48,000 |
| 3 | Sachin Yadav | 2 | - | $17,000 |
| 4 | Sarvesh Kushare | 2 | - | $10,500 |
| 5 | Murali Sreeshankar | 4 | - | $7,000 |
| 6 | Avinash Sable | 6 | - | $6,750 |
| 7 | Krishna Poonia | 1 | - | $4,000 |
| 8 | Tintu Luka | 3 | - | $4,000 |
| 9 | Parul Chaudhary | 2 | - | $3,500 |
| 10 | Abdulla Aboobacker | 3 | - | $2,500 |
| 11 | Annu Rani | 2 | - | $2,250 |
| 12 | Praveen Chithravel | 2 | - | $2,250 |
| 13 | Kishore Jena | 2 | - | $1,500 |
| 14 | Renjith Maheswary | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 15 | Om Prakash Singh Karhana | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 16 | Sudha Singh | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 17 | M. P. Jabir | 1 | - | $750 |
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. 17 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 17
Neeraj Chopra holds 60% of everything India has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 82.9% of it between them, and $16,706 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent India
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 17 | 5 | $256,500 | - | $256,500 |
| World Championships | 3 | - | $27,500 | - | $27,500 |
| Indoor Championships | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ultimate Championship | - | - | - | - | - |
| World Relays | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 17 | 5 | $284,000 | - | $284,000 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for India on $256,500, 90.3% of the national total. Two of the six have paid India. India has won nothing at the World Indoor Championships, the Ultimate Championship, 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 17: 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. Neeraj Chopra has been paid by two of them: the Diamond League and the World Championships.
India against the rest
Where $284,000 puts India
That is 0.2% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 61st out of 130. India has Sri Lanka above on $292,250 and Slovakia below on $276,000.
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 India
- Colombia
- Slovenia
- Grenada
- Uganda
- Kazakhstan
- Lithuania
- Algeria
- Saint Lucia
- Finland
- Estonia
- Puerto Rico
- Belarus
- Turkey
- Ireland
- Latvia
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Venezuela
- Panama
- Sri Lanka
- Slovakia
- Burundi
- Senegal
- British Virgin Islands
- Djibouti
- Mexico
- South Korea
- Tunisia
- Burkina Faso
- Ecuador
- Azerbaijan
- Austria
- Barbados
- Romania
- Dominica
- Denmark
- Israel
- Iran
- Cameroon
- Liberia
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has India won in athletics?
$284,000 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 61st of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 0.2% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which India athlete earns the most prize money?
Neeraj Chopra, on $170,500 from 23 paid finishes and five wins. That is 60% of everything India has won. Vikas Gowda is next on $48,000.
Does prize money won by India go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to 17 athletes by name. India 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 India have won athletics prize money?
17, sharing $284,000 between them, which is $16,706 each. One of them has won a title, 5 in all. Three have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid India
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 India against the other 129 the sport has paid.