Lithuania athletics prize money
Lithuania has taken $291,750 out of athletics, 46th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Mykolas Alekna is the biggest earner on $180,500, 61.9% of the national total.
All of it belongs to eight athletes by name. Lithuania 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 Lithuania athlete athletics has paid
8 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mykolas Alekna | 14 | 7 | $180,500 |
| 2 | Andrius Gudžius | 22 | 1 | $77,000 |
| 3 | Liveta Jasiūnaitė | 10 | — | $16,500 |
| 4 | Edis Matusevičius | 6 | — | $8,250 |
| 5 | Martynas Alekna | 1 | — | $6,000 |
| 6 | Dovilė Kilty | 2 | — | $1,500 |
| 7 | Gabija Galvydytė | 1 | — | $1,500 |
| 8 | Diana Zagainova | 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. Seven of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All eight of them
Mykolas Alekna holds 61.9% of everything Lithuania has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 93.9% of it between them, and $36,469 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Lithuania
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 7 | 8 | $243,750 | — | $243,750 |
| World Championships | 3 | — | $48,000 | — | $48,000 |
| Indoor Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ultimate Championship | — | — | — | — | — |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 8 | 8 | $291,750 | — | $291,750 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Lithuania on $243,750, 83.5% of the national total. Two of the six have paid Lithuania. Lithuania 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: two 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. Mykolas Alekna has been paid by two of them: the Diamond League and the World Championships.
Lithuania against the rest
Where $291,750 puts Lithuania
That is 0.4% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 46th out of 121. Lithuania has Sri Lanka above on $292,250 and Croatia below on $285,500.
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 Lithuania
- Portugal
- Japan
- Nigeria
- Bahrain
- Belgium
- Slovenia
- Uganda
- Czechia
- Morocco
- Algeria
- Bahamas
- Serbia
- Grenada
- Saint Lucia
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Ivory Coast
- Qatar
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Ireland
- Sri Lanka
- Croatia
- Venezuela
- Senegal
- Puerto Rico
- India
- Slovakia
- Turkey
- Colombia
- Kazakhstan
- South Korea
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Burkina Faso
- Estonia
- Mexico
- Finland
- Belarus
- Dominica
- Latvia
- British Virgin Islands
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Lithuania won in athletics?
$291,750 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 46th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 0.4% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Lithuania athlete earns the most prize money?
Mykolas Alekna, on $180,500 from fourteen paid finishes and seven wins. That is 61.9% of everything Lithuania has won. Andrius Gudžius is next on $77,000.
Does prize money won by Lithuania go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to eight athletes by name. Lithuania 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 Lithuania have won athletics prize money?
8, sharing $291,750 between them, which is $36,469 each. Two of them have won a title, 8 in all. Two have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Lithuania
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 Lithuania against the other 120 the sport has paid.