Trinidad and Tobago athletics prize money
Trinidad and Tobago has taken $872,750 out of athletics, 35th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Keshorn Walcott is the biggest earner on $207,750, 23.8% of the national total.
All of it belongs to 18 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
18 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keshorn Walcott | 40 | 2 | $207,750 |
| 2 | Jereem Richards | 31 | - | $191,500 |
| 3 | Cleopatra Borel | 32 | - | $94,500 |
| 4 | Jehue Gordon | 26 | 2 | $79,000 |
| 5 | Richard Thompson | 18 | 2 | $63,000 |
| 6 | Michelle-Lee Ahye | 17 | 1 | $56,250 |
| 7 | Kelly-Ann Baptiste | 14 | 1 | $53,000 |
| 8 | Keston Bledman | 7 | - | $29,000 |
| 9 | Machel Cedenio | 4 | 1 | $24,000 |
| 10 | Deon Lendore | 4 | - | $15,750 |
| 11 | Renny Quow | 7 | - | $13,000 |
| 12 | Lalonde Gordon | 6 | - | $12,000 |
| 13 | Rondel Sorrillo | 4 | - | $11,000 |
| 14 | Josanne Lucas | 5 | - | $10,000 |
| 15 | Mikel Thomas | 3 | - | $5,000 |
| 16 | Emmanuel Callender | 2 | - | $4,000 |
| 17 | Khalifa St. Fort | 2 | - | $2,500 |
| 18 | Aaron Armstrong | 1 | - | $1,500 |
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. 18 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 18
Keshorn Walcott holds 23.8% of everything Trinidad and Tobago has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 56.6% of it between them, and $48,486 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 | 18 | 8 | $717,750 | - | $717,750 |
| 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 | 18 | 9 | $872,750 | - | $872,750 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Trinidad and Tobago on $717,750, 82.2% 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 18: 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. Keshorn Walcott has been paid by two of them: the Diamond League and the World Championships.
Trinidad and Tobago against the rest
Where $872,750 puts Trinidad and Tobago
That is 0.6% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 35th out of 130. Trinidad and Tobago has the Dominican Republic above on $913,250 and Belgium below on $821,458.
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 Trinidad and Tobago
- Canada
- Cuba
- Norway
- China
- Czechia
- Botswana
- Greece
- Switzerland
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Brazil
- RUS
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Bahamas
- Croatia
- Portugal
- Bahrain
- Nigeria
- Morocco
- Dominican Republic
- Belgium
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Qatar
- Serbia
- Colombia
- Slovenia
- Grenada
- Uganda
- Kazakhstan
- Lithuania
- Algeria
- Saint Lucia
- Finland
- Estonia
- Puerto Rico
- Belarus
- Turkey
- Ireland
- Latvia
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Trinidad and Tobago won in athletics?
$872,750 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 35th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 0.6% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Trinidad and Tobago athlete earns the most prize money?
Keshorn Walcott, on $207,750 from 40 paid finishes and two wins. That is 23.8% of everything Trinidad and Tobago has won. Jereem Richards is next on $191,500.
Does prize money won by Trinidad and Tobago go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to 18 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?
18, sharing $872,750 between them, which is $48,486 each. Six of them have won a title, 9 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 129 the sport has paid.