Poland athletics prize money
Poland has taken $2,711,542 out of athletics, 10th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Piotr Małachowski is the biggest earner on $312,500, 11.5% of the national total.
$2,639,542 of that belongs to 84 athletes by name. The other $72,000 is the federation's, won by seven teams whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.
Every Poland athlete athletics has paid
84 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Piotr Małachowski | 50 | 18 | $312,500 |
| 2 | Klaudia Kazimierska | 8 | 2 | $233,000 |
| 3 | Natalia Bukowiecka | 34 | 3 | $171,250 |
| 4 | Marcin Lewandowski | 43 | 2 | $170,500 |
| 5 | Piotr Lisek | 34 | 3 | $136,375 |
| 6 | Tomasz Majewski | 38 | 1 | $131,000 |
| 7 | Robert Urbanek | 32 | 3 | $122,750 |
| 8 | Adam Kszczot | 32 | 5 | $122,000 |
| 9 | Paweł Wojciechowski | 29 | 2 | $105,500 |
| 10 | Kamila Lićwinko | 28 | 2 | $101,000 |
| 11 | Pia Skrzyszowska | 26 | - | $69,750 |
| 12 | Maria Żodzik | 9 | 1 | $60,667 |
| 13 | Angelika Cichocka | 16 | 2 | $55,000 |
| 14 | Żaneta Glanc | 20 | - | $52,500 |
| 15 | Konrad Bukowiecki | 15 | 1 | $44,750 |
| 16 | Anna Rogowska | 12 | 1 | $43,500 |
| 17 | Jakub Szymański | 3 | 1 | $43,500 |
| 18 | Michał Haratyk | 14 | - | $42,500 |
| 19 | Mateusz Kołodziejski | 5 | 1 | $38,250 |
| 20 | Marcin Krukowski | 10 | 1 | $36,750 |
| 21 | Dawid Wegner | 5 | - | $30,000 |
| 22 | Ewa Swoboda | 11 | - | $30,000 |
| 23 | Justyna Kasprzycka | 10 | - | $29,750 |
| 24 | Paulina Guba | 12 | - | $29,500 |
| 25 | Justyna Święty-Ersetic | 11 | - | $26,750 |
| 26 | Norbert Kobielski | 6 | - | $25,750 |
| 27 | Patryk Dobek | 9 | - | $25,250 |
| 28 | Maria Andrejczyk | 9 | - | $24,000 |
| 29 | Sylwester Bednarek | 7 | 1 | $20,250 |
| 30 | Łukasz Michalski | 5 | 1 | $19,500 |
| 31 | Renata Pliś | 8 | - | $18,000 |
| 32 | Sofia Ennaoui | 7 | - | $14,250 |
| 33 | Katarzyna Kowalska | 7 | - | $13,000 |
| 34 | Przemysław Czerwiński | 4 | - | $12,750 |
| 35 | Damian Czykier | 7 | - | $11,750 |
| 36 | Artur Noga | 4 | - | $11,500 |
| 37 | Anna Kiełbasińska | 8 | - | $11,000 |
| 38 | Katarzyna Zdziebło | 1 | - | $11,000 |
| 39 | Robert Sobera | 4 | - | $11,000 |
| 40 | Joanna Jóźwik | 6 | - | $9,500 |
| 41 | Monika Pyrek | 4 | - | $8,750 |
| 42 | Anna Jagaciak | 4 | - | $8,500 |
| 43 | Anna Jesień | 4 | - | $8,500 |
| 44 | Joanna Wiśniewska | 5 | - | $8,500 |
| 45 | Adrianna Sułek-Schubert | 1 | - | $8,000 |
| 46 | Anna Wielgosz | 2 | - | $8,000 |
| 47 | Krystian Zalewski | 5 | - | $8,000 |
| 48 | Michał Rozmys | 5 | - | $8,000 |
| 49 | Anita Włodarczyk | 1 | - | $7,000 |
| 50 | Karol Hoffmann | 4 | - | $6,500 |
| 51 | Marcelina Witek-Konofał | 1 | - | $6,000 |
| 52 | Paweł Fajdek | 1 | - | $6,000 |
| 53 | Rafał Omelko | 2 | - | $5,000 |
| 54 | Wioletta Frankiewicz | 2 | - | $5,000 |
| 55 | Joanna Linkiewicz | 2 | - | $4,500 |
| 56 | Mateusz Didenkow | 2 | - | $4,250 |
| 57 | Karol Zalewski | 3 | - | $4,000 |
| 58 | Paulina Ligarska | 1 | - | $4,000 |
| 59 | Łukasz Grzeszczuk | 2 | - | $3,500 |
| 60 | Małgorzata Trybańska | 3 | - | $3,500 |
| 61 | Cyprian Mrzygłód | 1 | - | $2,500 |
| 62 | Igor Janik | 1 | - | $2,500 |
| 63 | Jakub Szyszkowski | 1 | - | $2,500 |
| 64 | Łukasz Oslizlo | 1 | - | $2,500 |
| 65 | Wojciech Theiner | 1 | - | $2,500 |
| 66 | Alicja Konieczek | 3 | - | $2,000 |
| 67 | Bartosz Nowicki | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 68 | Emilia Ankiewicz | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 69 | Ewelina Sętowska-Dryk | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 70 | Kinga Królik | 2 | - | $2,000 |
| 71 | Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 72 | Nikola Horowska | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 73 | Anna Gryc | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 74 | Barbara Madejczyk | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 75 | Dominika Napieraj | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 76 | Klaudia Kardasz | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 77 | Łukasz Parszczyński | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 78 | Tomasz Jaszczuk | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 79 | Tomasz Szymkowiak | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 80 | Adrianna Topolnicka | 1 | - | $750 |
| 81 | Piotr Tarkowski | 1 | - | $750 |
| 82 | Andrzej Kuch | 1 | - | $500 |
| 83 | Martyna Kotwiła | 1 | - | $500 |
| 84 | Sebastian Urbaniak | 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. 79 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 84
Piotr Małachowski holds 11.5% of everything Poland has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 26.4% of it between them, and $31,423 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Poland
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 79 | 49 | $2,273,542$2.3m | - | $2,273,542$2.3m |
| World Championships | 7 | - | $92,000 | $28,000 | $120,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 10 | 1 | $124,000 | $38,000 | $162,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | 1 | 1 | $150,000 | - | $150,000 |
| World Relays | - | - | - | $6,000 | $6,000 |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 84 | 51 | $2,639,542$2.6m | $72,000 | $2,711,542$2.7m |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Poland on $2,273,542, 83.8% of the national total. Five of the six have paid Poland. Poland 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 84: eight 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. Klaudia Kazimierska has been paid by four of them: the Diamond League, the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships and the Ultimate Championship.
The cheques that went to the federation
7 team payments, paid to Poland rather than to anyone who ran
| RACE | PLACE | WHO RAN | PURSE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2025 | 2nd | Justyna Święty-Ersetic, Aleksandra Formella, Anastazja Kuś, Anna Gryc | $20,000 |
| Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay, 2025 | 4th | Maksymilian Szwed, Natalia Bukowiecka, Kajetan Duszyński, Justyna Święty-Ersetic | $16,000 |
| Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2025 | 5th | Anna Gryc, Alicja Wrona-Kutrzepa, Justyna Święty-Ersetic, Natalia Bukowiecka | $12,000 |
| Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay, 2026 | 3rd | Kajetan Duszyński, Anna Gryc, Marcin Karolewski, Justyna Święty-Ersetic | $10,000 |
| Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2026 | 4th | Natalia Bukowiecka, Anna Gryc, Anastazja Kuś, Justyna Święty-Ersetic | $8,000 |
| Women's 4 × 100 metres relay, 2026 | 7th | Magdalena Stefanowicz, Marlena Granaszewska, Magdalena Niemczyk, Pia Skrzyszowska | $3,000 |
| Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay, 2025 | 7th | Michal Kijewski, Weronika Bartnowska, Daniel Sołtysiak, Karolina Łozowska | $3,000 |
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.
Poland against the rest
Where $2,711,542 puts Poland
That is 2% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 10th out of 130. Poland has the Netherlands above on $2,809,167 and Sweden below on $2,690,592.
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 Poland
- United States
- Kenya
- Jamaica
- Great Britain
- Ethiopia
- Germany
- Australia
- France
- Netherlands
- Sweden
- Italy
- South Africa
- Ukraine
- Canada
- Cuba
- Norway
- 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 Poland won in athletics?
$2,711,542 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 10th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 2% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Poland athlete earns the most prize money?
Piotr Małachowski, on $312,500 from 50 paid finishes and 18 wins. That is 11.5% of everything Poland has won. Klaudia Kazimierska is next on $233,000.
Does prize money won by Poland go to the athlete or the federation?
$2,639,542 of that belongs to 84 athletes by name. The other $72,000 is the federation's, won by seven teams whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.
How many athletes from Poland have won athletics prize money?
84, sharing $2,639,542 between them, which is $31,423 each. 19 of them have won a title, 51 in all. Eight have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Poland
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 Poland against the other 129 the sport has paid.