RUS athletics prize money
RUS has taken $1,249,167 out of athletics, 26th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Anna Chicherova is the biggest earner on $133,000, 10.6% of the national total.
All of it belongs to 84 athletes by name. RUS has never been paid a relay purse, a World Relays ladder place or a cross country team standing, which are the three things that pay a federation rather than a person.
Every RUS athlete athletics has paid
84 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anna Chicherova | 20 | 8 | $133,000 |
| 2 | Aleksandr Menkov | 17 | 8 | $110,000 |
| 3 | Ivan Ukhov | 11 | 7 | $67,000 |
| 4 | Svetlana Feofanova | 11 | 2 | $58,500 |
| 5 | Mariya Abakumova | 10 | 5 | $52,000 |
| 6 | Yekaterina Koneva | 9 | 1 | $51,000 |
| 7 | Svetlana Shkolina | 14 | 5 | $42,250 |
| 8 | Andrey Silnov | 9 | 1 | $41,000 |
| 9 | Natalya Antyukh | 10 | - | $36,500 |
| 10 | Irina Gordeyeva | 16 | - | $34,750 |
| 11 | Vera Markaryan | 12 | - | $28,500 |
| 12 | Aleksey Dmitrik | 11 | 1 | $26,333 |
| 13 | Anna Pyatykh | 9 | - | $24,500 |
| 14 | Dmitriy Tarabin | 7 | - | $24,500 |
| 15 | Nadezhda Alyokhina | 7 | 1 | $24,000 |
| 16 | Anastasiya Savchenko | 7 | 1 | $23,500 |
| 17 | Yelena Isinbayeva | 3 | 2 | $23,500 |
| 18 | Aleksandr Shustov | 8 | - | $22,500 |
| 19 | Ekaterina Guliyev | 5 | 1 | $22,500 |
| 20 | Aleksey Fyodorov | 9 | - | $20,000 |
| 21 | Daniil Tsyplakov | 6 | 1 | $19,750 |
| 22 | Lyukman Adams | 4 | 2 | $18,500 |
| 23 | Irina Gumenyuk | 9 | - | $18,000 |
| 24 | Lyudmila Kolchanova | 5 | - | $18,000 |
| 25 | Aleksandr Gripich | 5 | - | $17,500 |
| 26 | Mariya Savinova | 2 | 4 | $16,000 |
| 27 | Yuliya Zaripova | 2 | 3 | $16,000 |
| 28 | Aleksandra Fedoriva-Spayer | 7 | - | $15,500 |
| 29 | Olga Kucherenko | 4 | 2 | $15,500 |
| 30 | Yuliya Golubchikova | 7 | - | $15,500 |
| 31 | Yelena Kotulskaya | 3 | 1 | $15,000 |
| 32 | Sergey Makarov | 4 | - | $14,000 |
| 33 | Aleksandra Kiryashova | 4 | - | $13,500 |
| 34 | Yaroslav Rybakov | 4 | - | $12,500 |
| 35 | Tatyana Kotova | 4 | - | $11,500 |
| 36 | Pavel Shalin | 3 | - | $10,000 |
| 37 | Antonina Krivoshapka | 4 | - | $9,500 |
| 38 | Tatyana Lebedeva | 3 | - | $9,000 |
| 39 | Tatyana Polnova | 2 | - | $8,000 |
| 40 | Yekaterina Kayukova-Chernenko | 5 | - | $6,500 |
| 41 | Sergey Morgunov | 1 | - | $6,000 |
| 42 | Viktor Butenko | 2 | - | $5,000 |
| 43 | Sergey Mudrov | 3 | - | $4,500 |
| 44 | Aleksandr Derevyagin | 2 | - | $4,000 |
| 45 | Anna Klyashtornaya | 1 | - | $4,000 |
| 46 | Denis Kudryavtsev | 1 | - | $4,000 |
| 47 | Gulnara Galkina | 1 | - | $4,000 |
| 48 | Sergey Kucheryanu | 3 | - | $3,833 |
| 49 | Anna Krylova | 2 | - | $3,500 |
| 50 | Ilgizar Safiulin | 2 | - | $3,500 |
| 51 | Anna Avdeyeva | 1 | - | $3,000 |
| 52 | Dmitriy Starodubtsev | 1 | - | $3,000 |
| 53 | Kseniya Zadorina | 1 | - | $3,000 |
| 54 | Maksim Sidorov | 2 | - | $3,000 |
| 55 | Natalya Alekseyeva | 1 | - | $3,000 |
| 56 | Yevgeniya Isakova | 2 | - | $3,000 |
| 57 | Yuliya Gushchina | 2 | - | $3,000 |
| 58 | Anastasiya Potapova | 1 | - | $2,500 |
| 59 | Veronika Semashko | 1 | - | $2,500 |
| 60 | Ilya Mudrov | 1 | - | $2,250 |
| 61 | Alyona Lutkovskaya | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 62 | Bogdan Pishchalnikov | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 63 | Irina Davydova | 2 | - | $2,000 |
| 64 | Valeriy Iordan | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 65 | Andrey Tereshin | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 66 | Angelina Zhuk-Krasnova | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 67 | Dmitriy Sorokin | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 68 | Igor Pavlov | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 69 | Olga Zaytseva | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 70 | Tatyana Vinogradova | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 71 | Viktoriya Slivka-Klyugina | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 72 | Yelizaveta Demirova | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 73 | Yevgeniya Kolodko | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 74 | Yuliya Pidluzhnaya | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 75 | Alsu Murtazina | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 76 | Anna Shchagina | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 77 | Kseniya Aksyonova | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 78 | Lyudmila Remeslova | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 79 | Natalya Nazarova | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 80 | Timofey Chalyy | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 81 | Viktoriya Sudarushkina | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 82 | Yelena Churakova | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 83 | Yelena Korobkina | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 84 | Yelena Soboleva | 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. 84 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 84
Anna Chicherova holds 10.6% of everything RUS has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 24.8% of it between them, and $14,871 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent RUS
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 84 | 56 | $1,249,167 | - | $1,249,167 |
| World Championships | - | - | - | - | - |
| Indoor Championships | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ultimate Championship | - | - | - | - | - |
| World Relays | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 84 | 56 | $1,249,167 | - | $1,249,167 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for RUS on $1,249,167, 100% of the national total. It is also the only one of the six that has ever paid RUS anything. RUS has won nothing at the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships, the Ultimate Championship, the World Relays and the World Cross Country Championships.
The ATHLETES column adds up to 84 because no RUS athlete has been paid by more than one of the six. Where one has, the same person is counted in every row that paid them and once in the national total.
RUS against the rest
Where $1,249,167 puts RUS
That is 0.9% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 26th out of 130. RUS has Brazil above on $1,329,500 and Authorised Neutral Athletes below on $1,190,500.
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 RUS
- Germany
- Australia
- France
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Sweden
- Italy
- South Africa
- Ukraine
- Canada
- Cuba
- Norway
- China
- Czechia
- Botswana
- Greece
- Switzerland
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Brazil
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Bahamas
- Croatia
- Portugal
- Bahrain
- Nigeria
- Morocco
- Dominican Republic
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Belgium
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Qatar
- Serbia
- Colombia
- Slovenia
- Grenada
- Uganda
- Kazakhstan
- Lithuania
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has RUS won in athletics?
$1,249,167 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 26th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 0.9% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which RUS athlete earns the most prize money?
Anna Chicherova, on $133,000 from 20 paid finishes and eight wins. That is 10.6% of everything RUS has won. Aleksandr Menkov is next on $110,000.
Does prize money won by RUS go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to 84 athletes by name. RUS has never been paid a relay purse, a World Relays ladder place or a cross country team standing, which are the three things that pay a federation rather than a person.
How many athletes from RUS have won athletics prize money?
84, sharing $1,249,167 between them, which is $14,871 each. 19 of them have won a title, 56 in all. Not one of them has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid RUS
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 RUS against the other 129 the sport has paid.