Mexico athletics prize money
Mexico has taken $198,917 out of athletics, 67th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Erick Portillo is the biggest earner on $71,583, 36% of the national total.
All of it belongs to ten 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
10 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 | Luis Alberto Rivera Morales | 7 | - | $22,500 |
| 5 | Edgar Rivera | 6 | - | $10,000 |
| 6 | Eduardo Herrera | 3 | - | $8,500 |
| 7 | Juan Luis Barrios | 3 | - | $6,000 |
| 8 | Laura Galván | 1 | - | $6,000 |
| 9 | José Carlos Herrera | 1 | - | $3,000 |
| 10 | Giovanni Lanaro | 1 | - | $333 |
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. Nine of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All ten of them
Erick Portillo holds 36% of everything Mexico has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 71.7% of it between them, and $19,892 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 | 9 | - | $68,917 | - | $68,917 |
| 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 | 10 | 0 | $198,917 | - | $198,917 |
The World Championships is the biggest of the six for Mexico on $70,000, 35.2% 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 10: 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 $198,917 puts Mexico
That is 0.1% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 67th out of 130. Mexico has Djibouti above on $217,250 and South Korea below on $197,750.
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 Mexico
- Algeria
- Saint Lucia
- Finland
- Estonia
- Puerto Rico
- Belarus
- Turkey
- Ireland
- Latvia
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Venezuela
- Panama
- Sri Lanka
- India
- Slovakia
- Burundi
- Senegal
- British Virgin Islands
- Djibouti
- South Korea
- Tunisia
- Burkina Faso
- Ecuador
- Azerbaijan
- Austria
- Barbados
- Romania
- Dominica
- Denmark
- Israel
- Iran
- Cameroon
- Liberia
- Luxembourg
- Uzbekistan
- Philippines
- Tanzania
- Syria
- Zambia
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Mexico won in athletics?
$198,917 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 67th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 0.1% of the $135,290,875 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 36% 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 ten 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?
10, sharing $198,917 between them, which is $19,892 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 129 the sport has paid.