Iran athletics prize money
Iran has taken $12,500 out of athletics, 102nd of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Ehsan Haddadi is the biggest earner on $12,000, 96% of the national total.
All of it belongs to two athletes by name. Iran 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 Iran athlete athletics has paid
2 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ehsan Haddadi | 3 | — | $12,000 |
| 2 | Farzaneh Fasihi | 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. Two of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All two of them
Ehsan Haddadi holds 96% of everything Iran has won in athletics. The two biggest hold 100% of it between them, and $6,250 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Iran
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 2 | — | $12,500 | — | $12,500 |
| World Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Indoor Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ultimate Championship | — | — | — | — | — |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 2 | 0 | $12,500 | — | $12,500 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Iran on $12,500, 100% of the national total. It is also the only one of the six that has ever paid Iran anything. Iran 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 2 because no Iran 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.
Iran against the rest
Where $12,500 puts Iran
That is under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 102nd out of 121. Iran has Niger above on $12,750 and Montenegro below on $11,750.
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 Iran
- 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
- 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
- Hong Kong
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Iran won in athletics?
$12,500 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 102nd of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Iran athlete earns the most prize money?
Ehsan Haddadi, on $12,000 from three paid finishes. That is 96% of everything Iran has won. Farzaneh Fasihi is next on $500.
Does prize money won by Iran go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to two athletes by name. Iran 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 Iran have won athletics prize money?
2, sharing $12,500 between them, which is $6,250 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 Iran
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 Iran against the other 120 the sport has paid.