Turkey athletics prize money
Turkey has taken $431,500 out of athletics, 53rd of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Ramil Guliyev is the biggest earner on $147,500, 34.2% of the national total.
All of it belongs to 21 athletes by name. Turkey 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 Turkey athlete athletics has paid
21 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ramil Guliyev | 22 | 5 | $147,500 |
| 2 | Yasmani Copello | 30 | 2 | $116,250 |
| 3 | Seref Osmanoglu | 6 | - | $21,000 |
| 4 | Ilham Tanui Özbilen | 7 | - | $17,500 |
| 5 | Jak Ali Harvey | 5 | 1 | $16,000 |
| 6 | Ersu Şaşma | 6 | - | $15,750 |
| 7 | Eda Tuğsuz | 3 | - | $14,000 |
| 8 | İsmail Nezir | 4 | - | $13,250 |
| 9 | Berke Akçam | 7 | - | $13,000 |
| 10 | Fatih Avan | 3 | - | $12,000 |
| 11 | Yasemin Can | 6 | - | $10,000 |
| 12 | Elvan Abeylegesse | 2 | - | $6,500 |
| 13 | Şilan Ayyıldız | 1 | - | $6,000 |
| 14 | Tuğba Danışmaz | 3 | - | $6,000 |
| 15 | Emel Dereli̇ | 2 | - | $5,500 |
| 16 | Ali Kaya | 2 | - | $3,000 |
| 17 | Gülcan Mingir | 1 | - | $2,500 |
| 18 | Karin Mey Melis | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 19 | Polat Kemboi Arikan | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 20 | Buse Savaşkan | 1 | - | $1,250 |
| 21 | Ercüment Olgundeniz | 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. 20 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 21
Ramil Guliyev holds 34.2% of everything Turkey has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 66% of it between them, and $20,548 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Turkey
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 20 | 8 | $421,500 | - | $421,500 |
| World Championships | - | - | - | - | - |
| Indoor Championships | 2 | - | $10,000 | - | $10,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | - | - | - | - | - |
| World Relays | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 21 | 8 | $431,500 | - | $431,500 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Turkey on $421,500, 97.7% of the national total. Two of the six have paid Turkey. Turkey has won nothing at the World Championships, 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 21: 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. Ersu Şaşma has been paid by two of them: the Diamond League and the World Indoor Championships.
Turkey against the rest
Where $431,500 puts Turkey
That is 0.3% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 53rd out of 130. Turkey has Belarus above on $451,750 and Ireland below on $372,000.
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 Turkey
- Morocco
- Dominican Republic
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Belgium
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Qatar
- Serbia
- Colombia
- Slovenia
- Grenada
- Uganda
- Kazakhstan
- Lithuania
- Algeria
- Saint Lucia
- Finland
- Estonia
- Puerto Rico
- Belarus
- Ireland
- Latvia
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Venezuela
- Panama
- Sri Lanka
- India
- Slovakia
- Burundi
- Senegal
- British Virgin Islands
- Djibouti
- Mexico
- South Korea
- Tunisia
- Burkina Faso
- Ecuador
- Azerbaijan
- Austria
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Turkey won in athletics?
$431,500 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 53rd of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 0.3% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Turkey athlete earns the most prize money?
Ramil Guliyev, on $147,500 from 22 paid finishes and five wins. That is 34.2% of everything Turkey has won. Yasmani Copello is next on $116,250.
Does prize money won by Turkey go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to 21 athletes by name. Turkey 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 Turkey have won athletics prize money?
21, sharing $431,500 between them, which is $20,548 each. Three of them have won a title, 8 in all. One has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Turkey
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 Turkey against the other 129 the sport has paid.