Norway athletics prize money
Norway has taken $1,648,250 out of athletics, 11th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Jakob Ingebrigtsen is the biggest earner on $575,000, 34.9% of the national total.
$1,592,250 of that belongs to 41 athletes by name. The other $56,000 is the federation's, won by three teams whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.
Every Norway athlete athletics has paid
41 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | 35 | 22 | $575,000 |
| 2 | Karsten Warholm | 31 | 17 | $407,000 |
| 3 | Henriette Jæger | 16 | 3 | $207,500 |
| 4 | Sondre Guttormsen | 23 | — | $119,250 |
| 5 | Sander Skotheim | 2 | 1 | $40,500 |
| 6 | Amalie Iuel | 17 | — | $36,000 |
| 7 | Narve Gilje Nordås | 12 | 1 | $36,000 |
| 8 | Filip Ingebrigtsen | 9 | — | $30,750 |
| 9 | Sigrid Borge | 10 | — | $25,500 |
| 10 | Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal | 10 | — | $12,250 |
| 11 | Pål Haugen Lillefosse | 6 | — | $11,250 |
| 12 | Ola Stunes Isene | 6 | — | $11,000 |
| 13 | Tobias Grønstad | 4 | — | $9,500 |
| 14 | Isabelle Pedersen | 3 | — | $8,000 |
| 15 | Håvard Bentdal Ingvaldsen | 5 | — | $7,750 |
| 16 | Thomas Mardal | 1 | — | $7,000 |
| 17 | Marie-Therese Obst | 4 | — | $5,250 |
| 18 | Henrik Ingebrigtsen | 2 | — | $5,000 |
| 19 | Lene Retzius | 4 | — | $3,750 |
| 20 | Hedda Hynne | 5 | — | $3,500 |
| 21 | Line Kloster | 4 | — | $3,250 |
| 22 | Andrea Rooth | 2 | — | $2,500 |
| 23 | Elisabeth Slettum | 2 | — | $2,500 |
| 24 | Simen Guttormsen | 3 | — | $2,500 |
| 25 | Helene Rønningen | 2 | — | $2,000 |
| 26 | Jonathan Quarcoo | 1 | — | $2,000 |
| 27 | Marcus Thomsen | 2 | — | $2,000 |
| 28 | Andreas Ofstad Kulseng | 1 | — | $1,500 |
| 29 | Ezinne Okparaebo | 1 | — | $1,500 |
| 30 | Ingar Bratseth-Kiplesund | 2 | — | $1,500 |
| 31 | Josefine Tomine Eriksen | 1 | — | $1,500 |
| 32 | Lakeri Ertzgaard | 1 | — | $1,000 |
| 33 | Mauritz Kåshagen | 1 | — | $1,000 |
| 34 | Nadia Akpana Assa | 1 | — | $1,000 |
| 35 | Oda Utsi Onstad | 1 | — | $1,000 |
| 36 | Sven Martin Skagestad | 1 | — | $1,000 |
| 37 | Andreas Haara Bakketun | 1 | — | $750 |
| 38 | Ferdinand Kvan Edman | 1 | — | $500 |
| 39 | Henrik Flåtnes | 1 | — | $500 |
| 40 | Markus Rooth | 1 | — | $500 |
| 41 | Mathias Hove Johansen | 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. 40 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 41
Jakob Ingebrigtsen holds 34.9% of everything Norway has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 72.2% of it between them, and $38,835 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Norway
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 40 | 40 | $1,118,250 | — | $1,118,250 |
| World Championships | 4 | — | $31,000 | $8,000 | $39,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 4 | 3 | $138,000 | — | $138,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | 4 | 1 | $305,000 | — | $305,000 |
| World Relays | — | 1 | — | $48,000 | $48,000 |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 41 | 45 | $1,592,250$1.6m | $56,000 | $1,648,250$1.6m |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Norway on $1,118,250, 67.8% of the national total. Five of the six have paid Norway. Norway has won nothing at the World Cross Country Championships.
The ATHLETES column counts the people each competition paid, so it does not add up to 41: five 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. Jakob Ingebrigtsen has been paid by three of them: the Diamond League, the World Indoor Championships and the Ultimate Championship.
The cheques that went to the federation
3 team payments, paid to Norway rather than to anyone who ran
| RACE | PLACE | WHO RAN | PURSE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2026 | 1st | Josefine Tomine Eriksen Aks, Amalie Iuel, Astri Ertzgaard, Henriette Jæger | $40,000 |
| Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2025 | 6th | Josefine Tomine Eriksen, Amalie Iuel, Astri Ertzgaard, Henriette Jæger | $8,000 |
| Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2025 | 4th | Josefine Tomine Eriksen, Amalie Iuel, Elisabeth Slettum, Henriette Jæger | $8,000 |
None of this is in any athlete's total above, here or anywhere else on the site. A relay purse is paid to the team whole, a World Relays ladder place is a country's, and a cross country team standing pays the federation behind the first four runners home.
Norway against the rest
Where $1,648,250 puts Norway
That is 2.2% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 11th out of 121. Norway has Germany above on $1,858,417 and Ukraine below on $1,488,667.
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 Norway
- United States
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Great Britain
- Ethiopia
- Australia
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Sweden
- Germany
- Ukraine
- Canada
- Switzerland
- France
- Cuba
- Poland
- Botswana
- South Africa
- Greece
- China
- Brazil
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Dominican Republic
- Portugal
- Japan
- Nigeria
- Bahrain
- Belgium
- Slovenia
- Uganda
- Czechia
- Morocco
- Algeria
- Bahamas
- Serbia
- Grenada
- Saint Lucia
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Ivory Coast
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Norway won in athletics?
$1,648,250 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 11th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 2.2% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Norway athlete earns the most prize money?
Jakob Ingebrigtsen, on $575,000 from 35 paid finishes and 22 wins. That is 34.9% of everything Norway has won. Karsten Warholm is next on $407,000.
Does prize money won by Norway go to the athlete or the federation?
$1,592,250 of that belongs to 41 athletes by name. The other $56,000 is the federation's, won by three teams whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.
How many athletes from Norway have won athletics prize money?
41, sharing $1,592,250 between them, which is $38,835 each. Five of them have won a title, 45 in all. Five have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Norway
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 Norway against the other 120 the sport has paid.