South Korea athletics prize money
South Korea has taken $197,750 out of athletics, 68th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Woo Sang-hyeok is the only athlete on it, on $197,750.
All of it belongs to one athlete by name. South Korea 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 South Korea athlete athletics has paid
1 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woo Sang-hyeok | 16 | 6 | $197,750 |
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 South Korea
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 1 | 5 | $113,750 | - | $113,750 |
| World Championships | 1 | - | $35,000 | - | $35,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 1 | 1 | $49,000 | - | $49,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | - | - | - | - | - |
| World Relays | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 1 | 6 | $197,750 | - | $197,750 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for South Korea on $113,750, 57.5% of the national total. Three of the six have paid South Korea. South Korea has won nothing at 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. Woo Sang-hyeok has been paid by three of them: the Diamond League, the World Championships and the World Indoor Championships.
South Korea against the rest
Where $197,750 puts South Korea
That is 0.1% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 68th out of 130. South Korea has Mexico above on $198,917 and Tunisia below on $176,250.
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 South Korea
- Saint Lucia
- Finland
- Estonia
- Puerto Rico
- Belarus
- Turkey
- Ireland
- Latvia
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Venezuela
- Panama
- Sri Lanka
- India
- Slovakia
- Burundi
- Senegal
- British Virgin Islands
- Djibouti
- Mexico
- Tunisia
- Burkina Faso
- Ecuador
- Azerbaijan
- Austria
- Barbados
- Romania
- Dominica
- Denmark
- Israel
- Iran
- Cameroon
- Liberia
- Luxembourg
- Uzbekistan
- Philippines
- Tanzania
- Syria
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has South Korea won in athletics?
$197,750 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 68th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 0.1% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which South Korea athlete earns the most prize money?
Woo Sang-hyeok, on $197,750 from sixteen paid finishes and six wins. That is 100% of everything South Korea has won. No other South Korea athlete has been paid at all.
Does prize money won by South Korea go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to one athlete by name. South Korea 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 South Korea have won athletics prize money?
One. Woo Sang-hyeok is the whole of the athletes' side of this page, on $197,750 from sixteen paid finishes, six of them wins.
Where to next
The competitions that paid South Korea
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 South Korea against the other 129 the sport has paid.