Qatar athletics prize money
Qatar has taken $750,833 out of athletics, 39th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Mutaz Barsham is the biggest earner on $409,833, 54.6% of the national total.
$738,833 of that belongs to 30 athletes by name. The other $12,000 is the federation's, won by one team whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.
Every Qatar athlete athletics has paid
30 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mutaz Barsham | 60 | 23 | $409,833 |
| 2 | Abderrahman Samba | 26 | 7 | $176,500 |
| 3 | Abdalelah Haroun | 9 | 1 | $43,000 |
| 4 | Femi Ogunode | 9 | - | $37,500 |
| 5 | Ahmed Bader Magour | 6 | - | $12,500 |
| 6 | Ismail Abakar | 4 | - | $10,000 |
| 7 | Abubaker Haydar Abdalla | 2 | - | $5,500 |
| 8 | Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla | 5 | - | $5,500 |
| 9 | Hamza Driouch | 3 | - | $4,000 |
| 10 | Essa Ismail Rashed | 1 | - | $3,000 |
| 11 | Jamal Hairane | 3 | - | $2,750 |
| 12 | Ibrahim Chuot | 1 | - | $2,500 |
| 13 | Musab Adam Ali | 3 | - | $2,500 |
| 14 | Samuel Francis | 1 | - | $2,500 |
| 15 | Ahmad Hassan Abdullah | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 16 | Ammar Ibrahim | 2 | - | $2,000 |
| 17 | Mohamed Nasir Abbas | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 18 | Oumar Doudai Abakar | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 19 | Saif Saaeed Shaheen | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 20 | Seif Heneida | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 21 | Zakaria El Ahlaami | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 22 | Abdirahman Saeed Hassan | 2 | - | $1,250 |
| 23 | Abubaker Ali Kamal | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 24 | Bassem Hemeida | 2 | - | $1,000 |
| 25 | Dana Noor Salem | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 26 | Hamdi Ali | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 27 | Rashid Al-Mannai | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 28 | Ashraf Osman | 1 | - | $500 |
| 29 | Moaaz Mohamed Ibrahim | 1 | - | $500 |
| 30 | Mohamad Al-Garni | 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. 30 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 30
Mutaz Barsham holds 54.6% of everything Qatar has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 83.8% of it between them, and $24,628 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Qatar
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 30 | 31 | $711,833 | - | $711,833 |
| World Championships | 2 | - | $27,000 | $12,000 | $39,000 |
| Indoor Championships | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ultimate Championship | - | - | - | - | - |
| World Relays | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 30 | 31 | $738,833 | $12,000 | $750,833 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Qatar on $711,833, 94.8% of the national total. Two of the six have paid Qatar. Qatar has won nothing at the World Indoor Championships, 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 30: two 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. Abderrahman Samba has been paid by two of them: the Diamond League and the World Championships.
The cheques that went to the federation
1 team payment, paid to Qatar rather than to anyone who ran
| RACE | PLACE | WHO RAN | PURSE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2025 | 5th | Ammar Ibrahim, Bassem Hemeida, Ismail Abakar, Abderrahman Samba | $12,000 |
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.
Qatar against the rest
Where $750,833 puts Qatar
That is 0.6% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 39th out of 130. Qatar has Japan above on $780,167 and Serbia below on $688,417.
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 Qatar
- 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
- Serbia
- Colombia
- Slovenia
- Grenada
- Uganda
- Kazakhstan
- Lithuania
- Algeria
- Saint Lucia
- Finland
- Estonia
- Puerto Rico
- Belarus
- Turkey
- Ireland
- Latvia
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Venezuela
- Panama
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Qatar won in athletics?
$750,833 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 39th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 0.6% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Qatar athlete earns the most prize money?
Mutaz Barsham, on $409,833 from 60 paid finishes and 23 wins. That is 54.6% of everything Qatar has won. Abderrahman Samba is next on $176,500.
Does prize money won by Qatar go to the athlete or the federation?
$738,833 of that belongs to 30 athletes by name. The other $12,000 is the federation's, won by one team whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.
How many athletes from Qatar have won athletics prize money?
30, sharing $738,833 between them, which is $24,628 each. Three of them have won a title, 31 in all. Two have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Qatar
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 Qatar against the other 129 the sport has paid.