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ATHLETICS · 122nd OF 130 · 3 PAID ATHLETES

UAE athletics prize money

UAE has taken $4,500 out of athletics, 122nd of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Mohammed Abbas Darwish is the biggest earner on $2,000, 44.4% of the national total.

All of it belongs to three athletes by name. UAE 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.

TOTAL WON $4,500
RANK 122/130
ATHLETES PAID 3
TITLES 0
TO THE FEDERATION $0

Every UAE athlete athletics has paid

3 of them, biggest first

$4,500 between them
Every athlete from UAE 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 Mohammed Abbas Darwish Diamond League 1 - $2,000
2 Omar Jouma Bilal al Salfa Diamond League 1 - $1,500
3 Betlhem Desalegn Diamond League 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. Three of these athletes have a page of their own here.

The biggest earners

All three of them

Mohammed Abbas Darwish $2,000 Omar Jouma Bilal al Salfa $1,500 Betlhem Desalegn $1,000

Mohammed Abbas Darwish holds 44.4% of everything UAE has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 100% of it between them, and $1,500 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.

Where the money comes from

All six competitions, and what each has sent UAE

$4,500 in all
What each of the six athletics competitions has paid UAE, 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 3 - $4,500 - $4,500
World Championships - - - - -
Indoor Championships - - - - -
Ultimate Championship - - - - -
World Relays - - - - -
Cross Country - - - - -
All six 3 0 $4,500 - $4,500

The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for UAE on $4,500, 100% of the national total. It is also the only one of the six that has ever paid UAE anything. UAE has won nothing at the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships, the Ultimate Championship, the World Relays and the World Cross Country Championships.

The ATHLETES column adds up to 3 because no UAE 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.

UAE against the rest

Where $4,500 puts UAE

That is under 0.1% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 122nd out of 130. UAE has GAB above on $6,000 and Kuwait below on $4,000.

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 UAE

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money has UAE won in athletics?

$4,500 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 122nd of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.

Which UAE athlete earns the most prize money?

Mohammed Abbas Darwish, on $2,000 from one paid finish. That is 44.4% of everything UAE has won. Omar Jouma Bilal al Salfa is next on $1,500.

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

All of it belongs to three athletes by name. UAE 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 UAE have won athletics prize money?

3, sharing $4,500 between them, which is $1,500 each. None of them has won a title: every payment is a finishing place behind somebody else. Not one of them has been paid by more than one of the six competitions.

Where to next

The competitions that paid UAE

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 UAE against the other 129 the sport has paid.

The six competitions