Mexico athletics prize money
Mexico has taken $163,583 out of athletics, 61st of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Erick Portillo is the biggest earner on $71,583, 43.8% of the national total.
All of it belongs to six athletes by name. Mexico 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 Mexico athlete athletics has paid
6 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Erick Portillo | 7 | — | $71,583 |
| 2 | Uziel Muñoz | 2 | — | $36,000 |
| 3 | Alegna González | 1 | — | $35,000 |
| 4 | Eduardo Herrera | 3 | — | $8,500 |
| 5 | Edgar Rivera | 5 | — | $6,500 |
| 6 | Laura Galván | 1 | — | $6,000 |
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. Five of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All six of them
Erick Portillo holds 43.8% of everything Mexico has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 87.2% of it between them, and $27,264 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Mexico
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 5 | — | $33,583 | — | $33,583 |
| World Championships | 2 | — | $70,000 | — | $70,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 1 | — | $20,000 | — | $20,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | 1 | — | $40,000 | — | $40,000 |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 6 | 0 | $163,583 | — | $163,583 |
The World Championships is the biggest of the six for Mexico on $70,000, 42.8% of the national total. Four of the six have paid Mexico. Mexico has won nothing at 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: 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. Erick Portillo has been paid by three of them: the Diamond League, the World Indoor Championships and the Ultimate Championship.
Mexico against the rest
Where $163,583 puts Mexico
That is 0.2% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 61st out of 121. Mexico has Estonia above on $169,750 and Finland below on $159,500.
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 Mexico
- Ivory Coast
- Qatar
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Ireland
- Sri Lanka
- Lithuania
- Croatia
- Venezuela
- Senegal
- Puerto Rico
- India
- Slovakia
- Turkey
- Colombia
- Kazakhstan
- South Korea
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Burkina Faso
- Estonia
- Finland
- Belarus
- Dominica
- Latvia
- British Virgin Islands
- Ecuador
- Panama
- Tunisia
- Cameroon
- Barbados
- Liberia
- Luxembourg
- Burundi
- Austria
- Philippines
- Tanzania
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Namibia
- Chinese Taipei
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Mexico won in athletics?
$163,583 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 61st of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 0.2% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Mexico athlete earns the most prize money?
Erick Portillo, on $71,583 from seven paid finishes. That is 43.8% of everything Mexico has won. Uziel Muñoz is next on $36,000.
Does prize money won by Mexico go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to six athletes by name. Mexico 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 Mexico have won athletics prize money?
6, sharing $163,583 between them, which is $27,264 each. None of them has won a title: every payment is a finishing place behind somebody else. Two have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Mexico
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 Mexico against the other 120 the sport has paid.