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ATHLETICS · 77th OF 121 · 1 PAID ATHLETES

Tanzania athletics prize money

Tanzania has taken $74,000 out of athletics, 77th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Alphonce Simbu is the only athlete on it, on $70,000.

$70,000 of that belongs to one athlete by name. The other $4,000 is the federation's, won by one team whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.

TOTAL WON $74,000
RANK 77/121
ATHLETES PAID 1
TITLES 1
TO THE FEDERATION $4,000

Every Tanzania athlete athletics has paid

1 of them, biggest first

$70,000 between them
Every athlete from Tanzania 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 Alphonce Simbu World Championships 1 1 $70,000

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. None of these athletes has a page of their own here yet.

Where the money comes from

All six competitions, and what each has sent Tanzania

$74,000 in all
What each of the six athletics competitions has paid Tanzania, 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 — — — — —
World Championships 1 1 $70,000 — $70,000
Indoor Championships — — — — —
Ultimate Championship — — — — —
World Relays — — — — —
Cross Country — — — $4,000 $4,000
All six 1 1 $70,000 $4,000 $74,000

The World Championships is the biggest of the six for Tanzania on $70,000, 94.6% of the national total. Two of the six have paid Tanzania. Tanzania has won nothing at the Diamond League, the World Indoor Championships, the Ultimate Championship and the World Relays.

The ATHLETES column adds up to 1 because no Tanzania 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.

The cheques that went to the federation

1 team payment, paid to Tanzania rather than to anyone who ran

$4,000 in all
Every team payment Tanzania has been paid: the race, the finishing place, the purse, and the athletes who ran for it.
RACE PLACE WHO RAN PURSE
Senior men's race, 2026 Cross Country 6th Gabriel Gerald Geay, Emanuel Dinday, Benjamin Ratsim, Inyasi Nicodemus Sulley $4,000

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.

Tanzania against the rest

Where $74,000 puts Tanzania

That is under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 77th out of 121. Tanzania has the Philippines above on $78,125 and Zambia below on $60,000.

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 Tanzania

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money has Tanzania won in athletics?

$74,000 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 77th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.

Which Tanzania athlete earns the most prize money?

Alphonce Simbu, on $70,000 from one paid finish and one win. That is 94.6% of everything Tanzania has won. No other Tanzania athlete has been paid at all.

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

$70,000 of that belongs to one athlete by name. The other $4,000 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 Tanzania have won athletics prize money?

One. Alphonce Simbu is the whole of the athletes' side of this page, on $70,000 from one paid finish, one of them a win.

Where to next

The competitions that paid Tanzania

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 Tanzania against the other 120 the sport has paid.

The six competitions