Ukraine athletics prize money
Ukraine has taken $2,339,600 out of athletics, 14th of the 130 countries the sport has paid. Yaroslava Mahuchikh is the biggest earner on $601,250, 25.7% of the national total.
All of it belongs to 56 athletes by name. Ukraine 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 Ukraine athlete athletics has paid
56 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | 42 | 23 | $601,250 |
| 2 | Bohdan Bondarenko | 27 | 12 | $193,583 |
| 3 | Yuliya Levchenko | 41 | 1 | $190,792 |
| 4 | Olha Saladukha | 37 | 6 | $183,000 |
| 5 | Andriy Protsenko | 37 | 3 | $171,250 |
| 6 | Oleh Doroshchuk | 14 | 3 | $138,250 |
| 7 | Iryna Herashchenko | 34 | 2 | $137,375 |
| 8 | Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk | 27 | 2 | $126,750 |
| 9 | Anna Ryzhykova | 41 | - | $105,500 |
| 10 | Mykhaylo Kokhan | 2 | - | $56,000 |
| 11 | Mariya Ryemyen | 11 | 2 | $45,500 |
| 12 | Viktoriya Tkachuk | 18 | - | $30,000 |
| 13 | Anna Mishchenko | 6 | 1 | $28,500 |
| 14 | Maksym Mazuryk | 8 | - | $27,500 |
| 15 | Oleksandr Pyatnytsya | 6 | 2 | $27,500 |
| 16 | Roman Avramenko | 7 | - | $20,500 |
| 17 | Vita Styopina | 6 | - | $18,083 |
| 18 | Oksana Okuneva | 10 | - | $18,050 |
| 19 | Kateryna Tabashnyk | 9 | - | $17,800 |
| 20 | Olha Lyakhova | 4 | - | $15,500 |
| 21 | Olesya Povh | 4 | - | $14,000 |
| 22 | Olena Holosha | 4 | - | $11,750 |
| 23 | Serhiy Smelyk | 2 | 1 | $11,500 |
| 24 | Artur Felfner | 7 | - | $10,500 |
| 25 | Nataliya Lupu | 4 | - | $10,500 |
| 26 | Olha Zemlyak | 4 | - | $10,000 |
| 27 | Hanna Titimets | 5 | - | $9,500 |
| 28 | Hrystyna Stuy | 4 | - | $8,500 |
| 29 | Viktoriya Rybalko | 3 | - | $8,000 |
| 30 | Nataliya Semenova | 3 | - | $7,500 |
| 31 | Viktor Kuznyetsov | 2 | - | $7,000 |
| 32 | Hanna Hatsko | 3 | - | $6,500 |
| 33 | Yelizaveta Bryzgina | 3 | - | $6,000 |
| 34 | Dmytro Demyanyuk | 2 | - | $5,500 |
| 35 | Anastasiya Rabchenyuk | 2 | - | $5,000 |
| 36 | Hanna Shevchuk | 1 | - | $5,000 |
| 37 | Nataliia Krol | 4 | - | $5,000 |
| 38 | Yuliya Krevsun | 2 | - | $5,000 |
| 39 | Kateryna Karsak | 3 | - | $4,500 |
| 40 | Yuliya Chumachenko | 2 | - | $3,250 |
| 41 | Antonina Yefremova | 1 | - | $3,000 |
| 42 | Dmytro Kosynskyy | 1 | - | $3,000 |
| 43 | Hanna Shelekh | 1 | - | $3,000 |
| 44 | Natalia Pohrebniak | 2 | - | $3,000 |
| 45 | Nataliya Strebkova | 2 | - | $3,000 |
| 46 | Halyna Obleshchuk | 2 | - | $2,500 |
| 47 | Serhiy Nykyforov | 2 | - | $2,500 |
| 48 | Maryna Kylypko | 2 | - | $2,083 |
| 49 | Dmytro Savytskyy | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 50 | Tetyana Ptashkina | 1 | - | $2,000 |
| 51 | Andriy Makarchev | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 52 | Oleksandr Nartov | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 53 | Ruslana Tsykhotska | 1 | - | $1,500 |
| 54 | Yevheniya Snihur | 1 | - | $1,000 |
| 55 | Roman Kokoshko | 1 | - | $500 |
| 56 | Nataliya Mazuryk | 1 | - | $333 |
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. 54 of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
The top twelve of 56
Yaroslava Mahuchikh holds 25.7% of everything Ukraine has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 42.1% of it between them, and $41,779 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Ukraine
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 54 | 55 | $1,975,933$2.0m | - | $1,975,933$2.0m |
| World Championships | 5 | - | $65,000 | - | $65,000 |
| Indoor Championships | 3 | 2 | $108,667 | - | $108,667 |
| Ultimate Championship | 2 | 1 | $190,000 | - | $190,000 |
| World Relays | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cross Country | - | - | - | - | - |
| All six | 56 | 58 | $2,339,600$2.3m | - | $2,339,600$2.3m |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Ukraine on $1,975,933, 84.5% of the national total. Four of the six have paid Ukraine. Ukraine 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 56: four 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. Yaroslava Mahuchikh has been paid by four of them: the Diamond League, the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships and the Ultimate Championship.
Ukraine against the rest
Where $2,339,600 puts Ukraine
That is 1.7% of the $135,290,875 athletics has paid to a country, and 14th out of 130. Ukraine has South Africa above on $2,356,250 and Canada below on $2,287,458.
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 Ukraine
- United States
- Kenya
- Jamaica
- Great Britain
- Ethiopia
- Germany
- Australia
- France
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Sweden
- Italy
- South Africa
- Canada
- Cuba
- Norway
- China
- Czechia
- Botswana
- Greece
- Switzerland
- Spain
- New Zealand
- Brazil
- RUS
- Authorised Neutral Athletes
- Bahamas
- Croatia
- Portugal
- Bahrain
- Nigeria
- Morocco
- Dominican Republic
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Belgium
- Ivory Coast
- Japan
- Qatar
- Serbia
- Colombia
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Ukraine won in athletics?
$2,339,600 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 14th of the 130 countries athletics has paid, and 1.7% of the $135,290,875 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Ukraine athlete earns the most prize money?
Yaroslava Mahuchikh, on $601,250 from 42 paid finishes and 23 wins. That is 25.7% of everything Ukraine has won. Bohdan Bondarenko is next on $193,583.
Does prize money won by Ukraine go to the athlete or the federation?
All of it belongs to 56 athletes by name. Ukraine 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 Ukraine have won athletics prize money?
56, sharing $2,339,600 between them, which is $41,779 each. Twelve of them have won a title, 58 in all. Four have been paid by more than one of the six competitions.
Where to next
The competitions that paid Ukraine
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 Ukraine against the other 129 the sport has paid.