Latvia athletics prize money
Latvia has taken $113,750 out of athletics, 65th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Anete Sietiņa is the biggest earner on $52,000, 45.7% of the national total.
All of it belongs to six athletes by name. Latvia 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 Latvia athlete athletics has paid
6 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anete Sietiņa | 7 | — | $52,000 |
| 2 | Līna Mūze | 15 | — | $41,250 |
| 3 | Gatis Čakšs | 8 | — | $7,250 |
| 4 | Patriks Gailums | 5 | — | $6,500 |
| 5 | Madara Palameika | 3 | — | $6,000 |
| 6 | Agate Caune | 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. Six of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All six of them
Anete Sietiņa holds 45.7% of everything Latvia has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 88.4% of it between them, and $18,958 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Latvia
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 6 | — | $78,750 | — | $78,750 |
| World Championships | 1 | — | $35,000 | — | $35,000 |
| Indoor Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ultimate Championship | — | — | — | — | — |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 6 | 0 | $113,750 | — | $113,750 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Latvia on $78,750, 69.2% of the national total. Two of the six have paid Latvia. Latvia 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 6: 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. Anete Sietiņa has been paid by two of them: the Diamond League and the World Championships.
Latvia against the rest
Where $113,750 puts Latvia
That is 0.2% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 65th out of 121. Latvia has Dominica above on $130,500 and the British Virgin Islands below on $111,250.
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 Latvia
- Sri Lanka
- Lithuania
- Croatia
- Venezuela
- Senegal
- Puerto Rico
- India
- Slovakia
- Turkey
- Colombia
- Kazakhstan
- South Korea
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Burkina Faso
- Estonia
- Mexico
- Finland
- Belarus
- Dominica
- British Virgin Islands
- Ecuador
- Panama
- Tunisia
- Cameroon
- Barbados
- Liberia
- Luxembourg
- Burundi
- Austria
- Philippines
- Tanzania
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Namibia
- Chinese Taipei
- Djibouti
- Syria
- Moldova
- Uruguay
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Latvia won in athletics?
$113,750 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 65th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 0.2% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Latvia athlete earns the most prize money?
Anete Sietiņa, on $52,000 from seven paid finishes. That is 45.7% of everything Latvia has won. Līna Mūze is next on $41,250.
Does prize money won by Latvia go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to six athletes by name. Latvia 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 Latvia have won athletics prize money?
6, sharing $113,750 between them, which is $18,958 each. None of them has won a title: every payment is a finishing place behind somebody else. One has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Latvia
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 Latvia against the other 120 the sport has paid.