Zimbabwe athletics prize money
Zimbabwe has taken $46,500 out of athletics, 79th of the 121 countries the sport has paid. Makanakaishe Charamba is the biggest earner on $32,500, 69.9% of the national total.
$40,500 of that belongs to three athletes by name. The other $6,000 is the federation's, won by one team whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.
Every Zimbabwe athlete athletics has paid
3 of them, biggest first
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Makanakaishe Charamba | 7 | — | $32,500 |
| 2 | Tapiwanashe Makarawu | 1 | — | $6,000 |
| 3 | Ashley Miller | 1 | — | $2,000 |
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. Two of these athletes have a page of their own here.
The biggest earners
All three of them
Makanakaishe Charamba holds 69.9% of everything Zimbabwe has won in athletics. The three biggest hold 87.1% of it between them, and $13,500 is what the national total works out at per paid athlete.
Where the money comes from
All six competitions, and what each has sent Zimbabwe
| COMPETITION | ATHLETES | WINS | TO ATHLETES | TO FEDERATION | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League | 2 | — | $34,500 | — | $34,500 |
| World Championships | 1 | — | $6,000 | — | $6,000 |
| Indoor Championships | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ultimate Championship | — | — | — | — | — |
| World Relays | — | — | — | $6,000 | $6,000 |
| Cross Country | — | — | — | — | — |
| All six | 3 | 0 | $40,500 | $6,000 | $46,500 |
The Diamond League is the biggest of the six for Zimbabwe on $34,500, 74.2% of the national total. Three of the six have paid Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe has won nothing at the World Indoor Championships, the Ultimate Championship and the World Cross Country Championships.
The ATHLETES column adds up to 3 because no Zimbabwe 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.
The cheques that went to the federation
1 team payment, paid to Zimbabwe rather than to anyone who ran
| RACE | PLACE | WHO RAN | PURSE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2026 | 5th | Dennis Bradley Hove, Zuze Leeford, Gerren Muwishi, Thandazani Ndhlovu | $6,000 |
None of this is in any athlete's total above, here or anywhere else on the site. A relay purse is paid to the team whole, a World Relays ladder place is a country's, and a cross country team standing pays the federation behind the first four runners home.
Zimbabwe against the rest
Where $46,500 puts Zimbabwe
That is under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 athletics has paid to a country, and 79th out of 121. Zimbabwe has Zambia above on $60,000 and Namibia below on $44,750.
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 Zimbabwe
- Burkina Faso
- Estonia
- Mexico
- Finland
- Belarus
- Dominica
- Latvia
- British Virgin Islands
- Ecuador
- Panama
- Tunisia
- Cameroon
- Barbados
- Liberia
- Luxembourg
- Burundi
- Austria
- Philippines
- Tanzania
- Zambia
- Namibia
- Chinese Taipei
- Djibouti
- Syria
- Moldova
- Uruguay
- Israel
- Samoa
- Uzbekistan
- Chile
- Denmark
- Gambia
- Romania
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Azerbaijan
- Ghana
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Costa Rica
- Guatemala
- Peru
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money has Zimbabwe won in athletics?
$46,500 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 79th of the 121 countries athletics has paid, and under 0.1% of the $74,963,667 the sport has sent to a country.
Which Zimbabwe athlete earns the most prize money?
Makanakaishe Charamba, on $32,500 from seven paid finishes. That is 69.9% of everything Zimbabwe has won. Tapiwanashe Makarawu is next on $6,000.
Does prize money won by Zimbabwe go to the athlete or the federation?
$40,500 of that belongs to three athletes by name. The other $6,000 is the federation's, won by one team whose purse is paid to the country rather than split between the runners.
How many athletes from Zimbabwe have won athletics prize money?
3, sharing $40,500 between them, which is $13,500 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 Zimbabwe
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 Zimbabwe against the other 120 the sport has paid.