Turkey athletics prize money
Turkey has taken $207,000 out of athletics, 53rd of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Ramil Guliyev is the biggest earner on $78,000, 37.7% of the national total.
All of it belongs to eleven 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
11 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ramil Guliyev | 11 | 3 | $78,000 |
| 2 | Yasmani Copello | 18 | 1 | $58,250 |
| 3 | Ersu Şaşma | 6 | — | $15,750 |
| 4 | İsmail Nezir | 4 | — | $13,250 |
| 5 | Berke Akçam | 7 | — | $13,000 |
| 6 | Eda Tuğsuz | 2 | — | $10,000 |
| 7 | Şilan Ayyıldız | 1 | — | $6,000 |
| 8 | Tuğba Danışmaz | 3 | — | $6,000 |
| 9 | Yasemin Can | 4 | — | $5,000 |
| 10 | Buse Savaşkan | 1 | — | $1,250 |
| 11 | Jak Ali Harvey | 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. Ten of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All eleven of them
Ramil Guliyev holds 37.7% of everything Turkey has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 73.4% of it between them, and $18,818 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 | 10 | 4 | $197,000 | — | $197,000 |
| World Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Indoor Championships | 2 | — | $10,000 | — | $10,000 |
| Ultimate Championship | — | — | — | — | — |
| World Relays | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 11 | 4 | $207,000 | — | $207,000 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Turkey on $197,000, 95.2% 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 11: 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 $207,000 puts Turkey
That is 0.3% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 53rd out of 121. Turkey has Slovakia above on $209,000 and Colombia below on $206,750.
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 Turkey
- Czechia
- Morocco
- Algeria
- Bahamas
- Serbia
- Grenada
- Saint Lucia
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Ivory Coast
- Qatar
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Ireland
- Sri Lanka
- Lithuania
- Croatia
- Venezuela
- Senegal
- Puerto Rico
- India
- Slovakia
- Colombia
- Kazakhstan
- South Korea
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Burkina Faso
- Estonia
- Mexico
- Finland
- Belarus
- Dominica
- Latvia
- British Virgin Islands
- Ecuador
- Panama
- Tunisia
- Cameroon
- Barbados
- Liberia
- Luxembourg
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Turkey won in athletics?
$207,000 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 53rd of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and 0.3% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Turkey athlete earns the most prize money?
Ramil Guliyev, on $78,000 from eleven paid finishes and three wins. That is 37.7% of everything Turkey has won. Yasmani Copello is next on $58,250.
Does prize money won by Turkey go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to eleven 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?
11, sharing $207,000 between them, which is $18,818 each. Two of them have won a title, 4 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 120 the sport has paid.