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ATHLETICS · 81st OF 130 · 6 PAID ATHLETES

Liberia athletics prize money

Liberia has taken $93,000 out of athletics, 81st of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Joseph Fahnbulleh is the biggest earner on $49,750, 53.5% of the national total.

All of it belongs to six athletes by name. Liberia 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 $93,000
RANK 81/130
ATHLETES PAID 6
TITLES 0
TO THE FEDERATION $0

Every Liberia athlete athletics has paid

6 of them, biggest first

$93,000 between them
Every athlete from Liberia 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 Joseph Fahnbulleh Diamond League 22 - $49,750
2 Maia McCoy Diamond League 9 - $30,000
3 Emmanuel Matadi Diamond League 4 - $7,750
4 Destiny Smith-Barnett Diamond League 2 - $2,500
5 Thelma Davies Diamond League 1 - $2,500
6 Wellington Zaza Diamond League 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. Six of these athletes have a page of their own here.

The biggest earners

All six of them

Joseph Fahnbulleh $50k Maia McCoy $30k Emmanuel Matadi $7,750 Destiny Smith-Barnett $2,500 Thelma Davies $2,500 Wellington Zaza $500

Joseph Fahnbulleh holds 53.5% of everything Liberia has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 94.1% of it between them, and $15,500 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.

Where the money comes from

All six competitions, and what each has sent Liberia

$93,000 in all
What each of the six athletics competitions has paid Liberia, 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 6 - $93,000 - $93,000
World Championships - - - - -
Indoor Championships - - - - -
Ultimate Championship - - - - -
World Relays - - - - -
Cross Country - - - - -
All six 6 0 $93,000 - $93,000

The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Liberia on $93,000, 100% of the national total. It is also the only one of the six that has ever paid Liberia anything. Liberia 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 6 because no Liberia 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.

Liberia against the rest

Where $93,000 puts Liberia

That is under 0.1% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 81st out of 130. Liberia has Cameroon above on $94,500 and Luxembourg below on $89,250.

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 Liberia

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money has Liberia won in athletics?

$93,000 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 81st of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.

Which Liberia athlete earns the most prize money?

Joseph Fahnbulleh, on $49,750 from 22 paid finishes. That is 53.5% of everything Liberia has won. Maia McCoy is next on $30,000.

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

All of it belongs to six athletes by name. Liberia 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 Liberia have won athletics prize money?

6, sharing $93,000 between them, which is $15,500 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 Liberia

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 Liberia against the other 129 the sport has paid.

The six competitions