Trinidad and Tobago athletics prize money
Trinidad and Tobago has taken $332,750 out of athletics, 43rd of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Jereem Richards is the biggest earner on $173,000, 52% of the national total.
All of it belongs to six athletes by name. Trinidad and Tobago 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 Trinidad and Tobago athlete athletics has paid
6 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jereem Richards | 28 | — | $173,000 |
| 2 | Keshorn Walcott | 18 | 1 | $135,250 |
| 3 | Deon Lendore | 3 | — | $14,250 |
| 4 | Michelle-Lee Ahye | 3 | — | $6,750 |
| 5 | Cleopatra Borel | 1 | — | $2,500 |
| 6 | Khalifa St. Fort | 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. Six of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All six of them
Jereem Richards holds 52% of everything Trinidad and Tobago has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 96.9% of it between them, and $55,458 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Trinidad and Tobago
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 6 | — | $177,750 | — | $177,750 |
| World Championships | 2 | 1 | $105,000 | — | $105,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 1 | — | $10,000 | — | $10,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | 1 | — | $40,000 | — | $40,000 |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 6 | 1 | $332,750 | — | $332,750 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Trinidad and Tobago on $177,750, 53.4% of the national total. Four of the six have paid Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago has won nothing at 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 6: two athletes have been paid by more than one of the six, and are counted in every row that paid them and once in the national total. Jereem Richards has been paid by four of them: the Diamond League, the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships and the Ultimate Championship.
Trinidad and Tobago against the rest
Where $332,750 puts Trinidad and Tobago
That is 0.4% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 43rd out of 121. Trinidad and Tobago has Qatar above on $340,583 and Ireland below on $317,000.
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 Trinidad and Tobago
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Dominican Republic
- Portugal
- Japan
- Nigeria
- Bahrain
- Belgium
- Slovenia
- Uganda
- Czechia
- Morocco
- Algeria
- Bahamas
- Serbia
- Grenada
- Saint Lucia
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Ivory Coast
- Qatar
- Ireland
- Sri Lanka
- Lithuania
- Croatia
- Venezuela
- Senegal
- Puerto Rico
- India
- Slovakia
- Turkey
- Colombia
- Kazakhstan
- South Korea
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Burkina Faso
- Estonia
- Mexico
- Finland
- Belarus
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Trinidad and Tobago won in athletics?
$332,750 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 43rd of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 0.4% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Trinidad and Tobago athlete earns the most prize money?
Jereem Richards, on $173,000 from 28 paid finishes. That is 52% of everything Trinidad and Tobago has won. Keshorn Walcott is next on $135,250.
Does prize money won by Trinidad and Tobago go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to six athletes by name. Trinidad and Tobago 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 Trinidad and Tobago have won athletics prize money?
6, sharing $332,750 between them, which is $55,458 each. One of them has won a title, 1 in all. Two have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Trinidad and Tobago
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 Trinidad and Tobago against the other 120 the sport has paid.