Portugal athletics prize money
Portugal has taken $1,063,500 out of athletics, 30th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Pedro Pichardo is the biggest earner on $440,500, 41.4% of the national total.
$1,046,500 of that belongs to 30 athletes by name. The other $17,000 is the federation's, won by three teams whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.
Every Portugal athlete athletics has paid
30 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pedro Pichardo | 37 | 18 | $440,500 |
| 2 | Isaac Nader | 10 | 2 | $127,750 |
| 3 | Auriol Dongmo | 13 | 3 | $75,000 |
| 4 | Patrícia Mamona | 28 | - | $73,500 |
| 5 | Agate de Sousa | 9 | 1 | $70,000 |
| 6 | Gerson Baldé | 4 | 1 | $47,000 |
| 7 | Nelson Évora | 17 | - | $38,500 |
| 8 | Naide Gomes | 8 | - | $31,000 |
| 9 | Liliana Cá | 16 | - | $26,500 |
| 10 | Marco Fortes | 11 | - | $23,000 |
| 11 | Tiago Pereira | 8 | - | $17,000 |
| 12 | Patricia Silva | 3 | - | $14,000 |
| 13 | Fatoumata Binta Diallo | 5 | - | $11,000 |
| 14 | Irina Rodrigues | 6 | - | $9,000 |
| 15 | Susana Costa | 4 | - | $7,000 |
| 16 | Jessica Inchude | 4 | - | $6,250 |
| 17 | Leandro Ramos | 4 | - | $5,250 |
| 18 | Marcos Chuva | 1 | - | $4,000 |
| 19 | Jessica Augusto | 2 | - | $3,500 |
| 20 | Tsanko Arnaudov | 2 | - | $2,500 |
| 21 | João Coelho | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 22 | Lorène Bazolo | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 23 | Salomé Afonso | 2 | - | $2,000 |
| 24 | Francis Obikwelu | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 25 | Marta Pen Freitas | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 26 | Diogo Ferreira | 1 | - | $1,250 |
| 27 | Cátia Azevedo | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 28 | Clarisse Cruz | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 29 | Edi Maia | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 30 | Vera Barbosa | 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. 30 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 30
Pedro Pichardo holds 41.4% of everything Portugal has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 60.5% of it between them, and $34,883 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Portugal
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 30 | 21 | $777,500 | - | $777,500 |
| World Championships | 3 | 2 | $147,000 | - | $147,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 5 | 2 | $122,000 | $6,000 | $128,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | - | - | - | - | - |
| World Relays | - | - | - | $11,000 | $11,000 |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 30 | 25 | $1,046,500 | $17,000 | $1,063,500 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Portugal on $777,500, 73.1% of the national total. Four of the six have paid Portugal. Portugal has won nothing at the Ultimate Championship and the World Cross Country Championships.
The ATHLETES column counts the people each competition paid, so it does not add up to 30: six 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. Pedro Pichardo has been paid by two of them: the Diamond League and the World Championships.
The cheques that went to the federation
3 team payments, paid to Portugal rather than to anyone who ran
| RACE | PLACE | WHO RAN | PURSE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2026 | 4th | Pedro Afonso, Ericsson Tavares, João Coelho, Omar Elkhatib | $8,000 |
| Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2026 | 5th | Pedro Afonso, Ericsson Tavares, Omar Elkhatib, João Coelho | $6,000 |
| Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2025 | 7th | Ericsson Tavares, Ricardo dos Santos, Omar Elkhatib, André Franco | $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.
Portugal against the rest
Where $1,063,500 puts Portugal
That is 0.8% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 30th out of 130. Portugal has Croatia above on $1,065,583 and Bahrain below on $1,047,250.
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 Portugal
- Poland
- Sweden
- Italy
- South Africa
- Ukraine
- Canada
- Cuba
- Norway
- China
- Czechia
- Botswana
- Greece
- Switzerland
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Brazil
- RUS
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Bahamas
- Croatia
- Bahrain
- Nigeria
- Morocco
- Dominican Republic
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Belgium
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Qatar
- Serbia
- Colombia
- Slovenia
- Grenada
- Uganda
- Kazakhstan
- Lithuania
- Algeria
- Saint Lucia
- Finland
- Estonia
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Portugal won in athletics?
$1,063,500 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 30th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 0.8% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Portugal athlete earns the most prize money?
Pedro Pichardo, on $440,500 from 37 paid finishes and 18 wins. That is 41.4% of everything Portugal has won. Isaac Nader is next on $127,750.
Does prize money won by Portugal go to the athlete or the federation?
$1,046,500 of that belongs to 30 athletes by name. The other $17,000 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 Portugal have won athletics prize money?
30, sharing $1,046,500 between them, which is $34,883 each. Five of them have won a title, 25 in all. Six have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Portugal
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 Portugal against the other 129 the sport has paid.