Norway athletics prize money
Norway has taken $2,108,833 out of athletics, 17th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Jakob Ingebrigtsen is the biggest earner on $578,000, 27.4% of the national total.
$2,052,833 of that belongs to 64 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
64 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | 36 | 22 | $578,000 |
| 2 | Karsten Warholm | 39 | 18 | $479,500 |
| 3 | Henriette Jæger | 16 | 3 | $207,500 |
| 4 | Andreas Thorkildsen | 23 | 10 | $149,500 |
| 5 | Sondre Guttormsen | 23 | - | $119,250 |
| 6 | Jaysuma Saidy Ndure | 25 | - | $75,000 |
| 7 | Filip Ingebrigtsen | 17 | - | $53,750 |
| 8 | Sander Skotheim | 2 | 1 | $40,500 |
| 9 | Amalie Iuel | 17 | - | $36,000 |
| 10 | Narve Gilje Nordås | 12 | 1 | $36,000 |
| 11 | Sigrid Borge | 13 | - | $32,500 |
| 12 | Henrik Ingebrigtsen | 13 | - | $23,500 |
| 13 | Isabelle Pedersen | 12 | - | $23,000 |
| 14 | Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal | 14 | - | $20,750 |
| 15 | Ezinne Okparaebo | 10 | - | $16,000 |
| 16 | Tonje Angelsen | 7 | - | $15,583 |
| 17 | Pål Haugen Lillefosse | 6 | - | $11,250 |
| 18 | Ingvill Måkestad Bovim | 7 | - | $11,000 |
| 19 | Ola Stunes Isene | 6 | - | $11,000 |
| 20 | Tobias Grønstad | 4 | - | $9,500 |
| 21 | Christina Vukicevic | 5 | - | $8,000 |
| 22 | Håvard Bentdal Ingvaldsen | 5 | - | $7,750 |
| 23 | Thomas Mardal | 1 | - | $7,000 |
| 24 | Line Kloster | 6 | - | $5,250 |
| 25 | Marie-Therese Obst | 4 | - | $5,250 |
| 26 | Kristin Sundsteigen | 3 | - | $4,500 |
| 27 | Jonathan Quarcoo | 2 | - | $4,000 |
| 28 | Lene Retzius | 4 | - | $3,750 |
| 29 | Hedda Hynne | 5 | - | $3,500 |
| 30 | Helene Rønningen | 3 | - | $3,500 |
| 31 | Marcus Thomsen | 3 | - | $3,500 |
| 32 | Nadia Akpana Assa | 3 | - | $3,500 |
| 33 | Stine Kufaas | 3 | - | $3,500 |
| 34 | Andrea Rooth | 2 | - | $2,500 |
| 35 | Elisabeth Slettum | 2 | - | $2,500 |
| 36 | Simen Guttormsen | 3 | - | $2,500 |
| 37 | Eirik Dolve | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 38 | Grete Etholm | 2 | - | $2,000 |
| 39 | Øyunn Grindem Mogstad | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 40 | Stian Andersen | 2 | - | $2,000 |
| 41 | Sven Martin Skagestad | 2 | - | $2,000 |
| 42 | Andreas Ofstad Kulseng | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 43 | Fredrik Amundgård | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 44 | Ingar Kiplesund | 2 | - | $1,500 |
| 45 | Josefine Tomine Eriksen | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 46 | Margrethe Renstrøm | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 47 | Andreas Totsås | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 48 | Bjørnar Ustad Kristensen | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 49 | Cathrine Larsåsen | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 50 | Folake Akinyemi | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 51 | Ida Bakke Hansen | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 52 | Lakeri Ertzgaard | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 53 | Magnus Røsholm Berntsen | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 54 | Mauritz Kåshagen | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 55 | Oda Utsi Onstad | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 56 | Øyvind Strømmen Kjerpeset | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 57 | Stine Tomb | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 58 | Thomas Arne Roth | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 59 | Vladimir Vukicevic | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 60 | Andreas Haara Bakketun | 1 | - | $750 |
| 61 | Ferdinand Kvan Edman | 1 | - | $500 |
| 62 | Henrik Flåtnes | 1 | - | $500 |
| 63 | Markus Rooth | 1 | - | $500 |
| 64 | 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. 63 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 64
Jakob Ingebrigtsen holds 27.4% of everything Norway has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 60% of it between them, and $32,076 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 | 63 | 51 | $1,578,833$1.6m | - | $1,578,833$1.6m |
| 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 | 64 | 56 | $2,052,833$2.1m | $56,000 | $2,108,833$2.1m |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Norway on $1,578,833, 74.9% 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 64: 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 $2,108,833 puts Norway
That is 1.6% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 17th out of 130. Norway has Cuba above on $2,146,583 and China below on $1,813,250.
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 Norway
- United States
- Kenya
- Jamaica
- Great Britain
- Ethiopia
- Germany
- Australia
- France
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Sweden
- Italy
- South Africa
- Ukraine
- Canada
- Cuba
- China
- Czechia
- Botswana
- Greece
- Switzerland
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Brazil
- RUS
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Bahamas
- Croatia
- Portugal
- Bahrain
- Nigeria
- Morocco
- Dominican Republic
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Belgium
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Qatar
- Serbia
- Colombia
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Norway won in athletics?
$2,108,833 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 17th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 1.6% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Norway athlete earns the most prize money?
Jakob Ingebrigtsen, on $578,000 from 36 paid finishes and 22 wins. That is 27.4% of everything Norway has won. Karsten Warholm is next on $479,500.
Does prize money won by Norway go to the athlete or the federation?
$2,052,833 of that belongs to 64 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?
64, sharing $2,052,833 between them, which is $32,076 each. Six of them have won a title, 56 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 129 the sport has paid. European Championships prize money sits outside those six and none of it is in the figures above: Norway has been paid €200,000 in Gold Crowns there, through Karsten Warholm, Henriette Jæger and Jakob Ingebrigtsen.