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ATHLETICS · 41st OF 121 · 8 PAID ATHLETES

Ivory Coast athletics prize money

Ivory Coast has taken $359,500 out of athletics, 41st of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Marie-Josée Ta Lou is the biggest earner on $202,000, 56.2% of the national total.

All of it belongs to eight athletes by name. Ivory Coast 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 $359,500
RANK 41/121
ATHLETES PAID 8
TITLES 7
TO THE FEDERATION $0

Every Ivory Coast athlete athletics has paid

8 of them, biggest first

$359,500 between them
Every athlete from Ivory Coast 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 Marie-Josée Ta Lou Diamond League 40 5 $202,000
2 Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith Diamond League, World Championships 16 1 $90,250
3 Murielle Ahouré-Demps Diamond League 6 1 $24,750
4 Maboundou Koné Diamond League 8 — $14,250
5 Jessika Gbai Diamond League 5 — $10,000
6 Arthur Cissé Diamond League 7 — $7,750
7 Ben Youssef Meïté Diamond League 2 — $6,000
8 Cheickna Traore Diamond League 2 — $4,500

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

The biggest earners

All eight of them

Marie-Josée Ta Lou $202k Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith $90k Murielle Ahouré-Demps $25k Maboundou Koné $14k Jessika Gbai $10k Arthur Cissé $7,750 Ben Youssef Meïté $6,000 Cheickna Traore $4,500

Marie-Josée Ta Lou holds 56.2% of everything Ivory Coast has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 88.2% of it between them, and $44,938 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.

Where the money comes from

All six competitions, and what each has sent Ivory Coast

$359,500 in all
What each of the six athletics competitions has paid Ivory Coast, 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 8 7 $347,500 — $347,500
World Championships 1 — $12,000 — $12,000
Indoor Championships — — — — —
Ultimate Championship — — — — —
World Relays — — — — —
Cross Country — — — — —
All six 8 7 $359,500 — $359,500

The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Ivory Coast on $347,500, 96.7% of the national total. Two of the six have paid Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast 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 8: one athlete has been paid by more than one of the six, and is counted in every row that paid them and once in the national total. Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith has been paid by two of them: the Diamond League and the World Championships.

Ivory Coast against the rest

Where $359,500 puts Ivory Coast

That is 0.5% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 41st out of 121. Ivory Coast has Authorised Neutral Athletes above on $403,250 and Qatar below on $340,583.

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 Ivory Coast

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money has Ivory Coast won in athletics?

$359,500 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 41st of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 0.5% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.

Which Ivory Coast athlete earns the most prize money?

Marie-Josée Ta Lou, on $202,000 from 40 paid finishes and five wins. That is 56.2% of everything Ivory Coast has won. Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith is next on $90,250.

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

All of it belongs to eight athletes by name. Ivory Coast 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 Ivory Coast have won athletics prize money?

8, sharing $359,500 between them, which is $44,938 each. Three of them have won a title, 7 in all. One has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.

Where to next

The competitions that paid Ivory Coast

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 Ivory Coast against the other 120 the sport has paid.

The six competitions