Samoa athletics prize money
Samoa has taken $30,500 out of athletics, 87th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Alex Rose is the only athlete on it, on $30,500.
All of it belongs to one athlete by name. Samoa 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 Samoa athlete athletics has paid
1 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alex Rose | 7 | — | $30,500 |
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. One of these athletes has a page of their own here.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Samoa
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 1 | — | $8,500 | — | $8,500 |
| World Championships | 1 | — | $22,000 | — | $22,000 |
| Indoor Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ultimate Championship | — | — | — | — | — |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 1 | 0 | $30,500 | — | $30,500 |
The World Championships is the biggest of the six for Samoa on $22,000, 72.1% of the national total. Two of the six have paid Samoa. Samoa 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 1: one athlete has been paid by more than one of the six, and is counted in every row that paid them and once in the national total. Alex Rose has been paid by two of them: the Diamond League and the World Championships.
Samoa against the rest
Where $30,500 puts Samoa
That is under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 87th out of 121. Samoa has Israel above on $30,500 and Uzbekistan below on $30,375.
The biggest of the 121 is the United States on $16,292,792, which is 21.7% 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 Samoa
- Ecuador
- Panama
- Tunisia
- Cameroon
- Barbados
- Liberia
- Luxembourg
- Burundi
- Austria
- Philippines
- Tanzania
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Namibia
- Chinese Taipei
- Djibouti
- Syria
- Moldova
- Uruguay
- Israel
- Uzbekistan
- Chile
- Denmark
- Gambia
- Romania
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Azerbaijan
- Ghana
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Costa Rica
- Guatemala
- Peru
- Cyprus
- Niger
- Iran
- Montenegro
- Eritrea
- Egypt
- Benin
- Haiti
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Samoa won in athletics?
$30,500 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 87th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Samoa athlete earns the most prize money?
Alex Rose, on $30,500 from seven paid finishes. That is 100% of everything Samoa has won. No other Samoa athlete has been paid at all.
Does prize money won by Samoa go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to one athlete by name. Samoa 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 Samoa have won athletics prize money?
One. Alex Rose is the whole of the athletes' side of this page, on $30,500 from seven paid finishes and no win.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Samoa
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 Samoa against the other 120 the sport has paid.