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ATHLETICS · 56th OF 121 · 2 PAID ATHLETES

South Korea athletics prize money

South Korea has taken $197,750 out of athletics, 56th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Woo Sang-hyeok is the biggest earner on $187,750, 94.9% of the national total.

All of it belongs to two athletes 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.

TOTAL WON $197,750
RANK 56/121
ATHLETES PAID 2
TITLES 6
TO THE FEDERATION $0

Every South Korea athlete athletics has paid

2 of them, biggest first

$197,750 between them
Every athlete from South Korea who has won athletics prize money, ranked by career total across the six competitions, with which of them paid, how many paid finishes and how many titles.
# ATHLETE PAID WINS TOTAL
1 Woo Sang-hyeok Diamond League, World Championships, Indoor Championships 15 5 $187,750
2 Sanghyeok Woo Diamond League 1 1 $10,000

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. Two of these athletes have a page of their own here.

The biggest earners

All two of them

Woo Sang-hyeok $188k Sanghyeok Woo $10k

Woo Sang-hyeok holds 94.9% of everything South Korea has won in athletics. The two biggest hold 100% of it between them, and $98,875 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.

Where the money comes from

All six competitions, and what each has sent South Korea

$197,750 in all
What each of the six athletics competitions has paid South Korea, split between money that went to an athlete by name and money that went to the federation.
COMPETITION ATHLETES WINS TO ATHLETES TO FEDERATION TOTAL
Diamond League 2 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 2 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 2: 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 0.3% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 56th out of 121. South Korea has Kazakhstan above on $206,500 and Bulgaria below on $197,583.

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 South Korea

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 56th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 0.3% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.

Which South Korea athlete earns the most prize money?

Woo Sang-hyeok, on $187,750 from fifteen paid finishes and five wins. That is 94.9% of everything South Korea has won. Sanghyeok Woo is next on $10,000.

Does prize money won by South Korea go to the athlete or the federation?

All of it belongs to two athletes 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?

2, sharing $197,750 between them, which is $98,875 each. Two of them have won a title, 6 in all. One has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.

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 120 the sport has paid.

The six competitions