New Zealand athletics prize money
New Zealand has taken $1,432,375 out of athletics, 24th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Tom Walsh is the biggest earner on $468,000, 32.7% of the national total.
All of it belongs to 18 athletes by name. New Zealand 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 New Zealand athlete athletics has paid
18 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom Walsh | 60 | 15 | $468,000 |
| 2 | Valerie Adams | 43 | 30 | $361,500 |
| 3 | Hamish Kerr | 25 | 8 | $224,750 |
| 4 | Geordie Beamish | 10 | 1 | $87,500 |
| 5 | Eliza McCartney | 15 | - | $41,625 |
| 6 | Maddi Wesche | 8 | - | $41,500 |
| 7 | Nick Willis | 10 | - | $35,000 |
| 8 | Zoe Hobbs | 16 | - | $32,750 |
| 9 | Imogen Ayris | 11 | - | $32,500 |
| 10 | Tori Peeters | 9 | - | $29,000 |
| 11 | Olivia McTaggart | 6 | 1 | $26,500 |
| 12 | Stuart Farquhar | 9 | - | $23,000 |
| 13 | Jacko Gill | 8 | - | $16,250 |
| 14 | Ethan Olivier | 2 | - | $4,000 |
| 15 | Angela Petty | 2 | - | $3,500 |
| 16 | Sam Tanner | 3 | - | $3,000 |
| 17 | Nikki Hamblin | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 18 | Zane Robertson | 1 | - | $1,000 |
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. 18 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 18
Tom Walsh holds 32.7% of everything New Zealand has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 73.6% of it between them, and $79,576 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent New Zealand
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 18 | 51 | $1,129,875 | - | $1,129,875 |
| World Championships | 6 | 2 | $186,500 | - | $186,500 |
| Indoor Championships | 5 | 2 | $116,000 | - | $116,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | - | - | - | - | - |
| World Relays | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 18 | 55 | $1,432,375$1.4m | - | $1,432,375$1.4m |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for New Zealand on $1,129,875, 78.9% of the national total. Three of the six have paid New Zealand. New Zealand has won nothing at 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 18: nine 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. Tom Walsh has been paid by three of them: the Diamond League, the World Championships and the World Indoor Championships.
New Zealand against the rest
Where $1,432,375 puts New Zealand
That is 1.1% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 24th out of 130. New Zealand has Spain above on $1,462,000 and Brazil below on $1,329,500.
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 New Zealand
- Great Britain
- Ethiopia
- Germany
- Australia
- France
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Sweden
- Italy
- South Africa
- Ukraine
- Canada
- Cuba
- Norway
- China
- Czechia
- Botswana
- Greece
- Switzerland
- Spain
- Brazil
- RUS
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Bahamas
- Croatia
- Portugal
- Bahrain
- Nigeria
- Morocco
- Dominican Republic
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Belgium
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Qatar
- Serbia
- Colombia
- Slovenia
- Grenada
- Uganda
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has New Zealand won in athletics?
$1,432,375 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 24th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 1.1% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which New Zealand athlete earns the most prize money?
Tom Walsh, on $468,000 from 60 paid finishes and fifteen wins. That is 32.7% of everything New Zealand has won. Valerie Adams is next on $361,500.
Does prize money won by New Zealand go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to 18 athletes by name. New Zealand 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 New Zealand have won athletics prize money?
18, sharing $1,432,375 between them, which is $79,576 each. Five of them have won a title, 55 in all. Nine have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid New Zealand
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 New Zealand against the other 129 the sport has paid.