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SHOW JUMPING · 73 NATIONS

Show jumping prize money by nation

£22,463,868 paid out between 2018 and 2026, split by the flag on the rider's entry. Netherlands has taken £4,528,085 of it.

Every nation a class has paid, ranked. None of this is a federation budget and none of it is a wage: the money is won one round at a time and written to the owner of the horse, so a country's figure is the sum of how its riders jumped rather than what anybody spent on them.

PAID OUT £22.5m
TOP NATION £4.5m
NATIONS PAID 73
TOP THREE HOLD 44.6%
TOP TEN HOLD 92.9%
NATIONS WITH A WIN 45

The fifteen richest nations

Prize money won by their riders, 2018 to 2026

Top three hold 44.6%

Netherlands £4.5m Great Britain £2.9m Germany £2.6m Switzerland £2.3m Ireland £1.8m Belgium £1.7m United States £1.7m France £1.4m Sweden £1.2m Brazil £735k Austria £414k Italy £246k Egypt £111k Spain £89k Canada £67k

Three nations out of 73 hold 44.6% of the money. A prize-money sport concentrates that way by construction: there is no appearance fee and no start money at the level that pays, so everything follows the horses, and the horses follow the same handful of programmes.

Every nation the sport has paid

Ranked by prize money won by its riders

73 nations

# Nation Riders paid Paid rounds Wins Leading rider Share Prize money
01 Netherlands 899 10,320 796 Harrie Smolders 20.2% £4,528,085£4.5m
02 Great Britain 529 2,784 293 Scott Brash 13.1% £2,940,892£2.9m
03 Germany 462 2,437 207 Daniel Deusser 11.4% £2,552,778£2.6m
04 Switzerland 95 396 28 Martin Fuchs 10.2% £2,280,732£2.3m
05 Ireland 160 1,293 110 Darragh Kenny 8% £1,800,959£1.8m
06 Belgium 161 906 59 Pieter Devos 7.6% £1,708,609£1.7m
07 United States 66 356 34 McLain Ward 7.6% £1,704,638£1.7m
08 France 86 309 28 Simon Delestre 6.2% £1,391,273£1.4m
09 Sweden 89 423 27 Henrik von Eckermann 5.5% £1,227,938£1.2m
10 Brazil 27 179 18 Marlon Modolo Zanotelli 3.3% £735,130
11 Austria 19 115 6 Max Kühner 1.8% £414,451
12 Italy 148 388 31 Lorenzo de Luca 1.1% £246,181
13 Egypt 7 98 11 Karim Elzoghby 0.5% £110,507
14 Spain 50 118 7 Eduardo Alvarez Aznar 0.4% £88,652
15 Canada 24 79 5 Nicole Walker 0.3% £67,176
16 Australia 9 26 1 Rowan Willis 0.3% £62,456
17 United Arab Emirates 12 40 4 Omar Abdul Aziz Al Marzooqi 0.3% £58,119
18 Denmark 70 244 19 Andreas Schou 0.2% £52,268
19 Portugal 14 46 6 Luciana Diniz 0.2% £47,965
20 Japan 11 57 3 Eiken Sato 0.2% £42,743
21 Luxembourg 5 15 Victor Bettendorf 0.2% £41,118
22 Norway 37 112 5 Oda Charlotte Lyngvaer 0.2% £39,496
23 Mexico 15 107 4 Ernesto Canseco 0.2% £36,193
24 Israel 13 29 1 Daniel Bluman 0.1% £29,670
25 Finland 28 192 6 Anni Hjerpe 0.1% £28,618
26 Czechia 27 174 9 Sara Vingralkova 0.1% £27,075
27 Colombia 8 20 Carlos Enrique Lopez Lizarazo 0.1% £22,924
28 Poland 60 162 15 Przemyslaw Konopacki 0.1% £14,807
29 Syria 5 25 2 Shady Ghrayeb 0.1% £14,394
30 Liechtenstein 2 7 2 Jennifer Hochstaedter 0.1% £13,749
31 Greece 6 58 4 Ioli Mytilineou 0.1% £13,123
32 Palestine 3 25 1 Egor Shchibrik 0% £9,678
33 Chinese Taipei 8 42 1 Hansel Chen 0% £9,584
34 Iran 1 11 Ali Aziznia 0% £9,039
35 Saudi Arabia 6 13 Meshari Alharbi 0% £8,622
36 Kuwait 18 62 2 Ali Al Khorafi 0% £7,586
37 Slovenia 2 16 Gaj Riossa 0% £7,254
38 Turkey 18 46 3 Selcuk Koksalan 0% £6,867
39 Argentina 8 20 1 Matias Larocca 0% £6,632
40 Estonia 5 28 6 My Relander 0% £6,051
41 Jordan 5 20 1 Bisher Kayali 0% £5,946
42 Slovakia 1 3 Bronislav Chudyba 0% £5,010
43 Malaysia 1 5 Shoorendran Nageswaran 0% £3,863
44 New Zealand 5 28 3 Melody Matheson 0% £3,212
45 Hungary 15 39 2 Balázs Krucsó 0% £2,931
46 Kyrgyzstan 1 4 Valeria Sokolova 0% £2,487
47 China 11 20 2 Yifan Zhang 0% £2,320
48 Monaco 11 23 3 Anastasia Nielsen 0% £2,206
49 Chile 3 6 Rodrigo Carrasco 0% £1,985
50 Romania 17 41 1 Daria Maria Copos 0% £1,977
51 Lithuania 3 9 Ausra Clarke 0% £1,862
52 South Africa 5 11 Jason Slade 0% £1,836
53 India 4 7 1 Maryk Sahney 0% £1,696
54 Peru 1 8 Alonso Valdez Prado 0% £1,667
55 Hong Kong 1 12 Jacqueline Lai 0% £1,578
56 Indonesia 4 23 Brayen Brata-Coolen 0% £1,125
57 Thailand 2 4 Korntawat Samran 0% £1,014
58 Kazakhstan 2 7 Raissa Sokolenko 0% £875
59 Ecuador 1 1 Nicolas Wettstein 0% £833
60 Singapore 1 7 Christie Paige Nair 0% £809
61 Latvia 3 5 Kristaps Neretnieks 0% £790
62 Morocco 3 6 1 Vincent Zacharias Bourguignon 0% £750
63 Ukraine 3 6 Anastasia Bondarieva 0% £635
64 Bulgaria 2 4 1 Ivana Angelova 0% £604
65 NI2 3 4 Daria Samokhina 0% £492
66 Croatia 2 3 Kim Vukadin 0% £338
67 Guatemala 1 2 Valentina Arenas Saravia 0% £307
68 El Salvador 1 2 1 Valentina Guerrero Sanfeliu 0% £263
69 Cyprus 1 2 Petros Georgiou 0% £171
70 Qatar 2 5 Sheikh Fahad Jassim H K Al Thani 0% £125
71 Iraq 1 1 Falih Al-Dulaimi 0% £67
72 Zimbabwe 1 2 Stephen Wentzel 0% £40
73 Malta 1 1 Yana Melnikova 0% £26

The leading rider column links to a rider page where the rider has one. Below the page floor a career is a handful of cheques and it lives on the show pages they were written at. The full money list is here.

What a rider from each nation averages

Prize money divided by riders paid, nations with five or more

43 nations qualify

Brazil £27k United States £26k Switzerland £24k Austria £22k France £16k Egypt £16k Sweden £14k Ireland £11k Belgium £11k Luxembourg £8,224 Australia £6,940 Great Britain £5,559 Germany £5,525 Netherlands £5,037 United Arab Emirates £4,843

This is a different ranking from the one above it and it is the more honest one about depth.

What level the money is jumped at

The star rating is a floor on the prize fund

7 levels

Level Classes Median cheque Median winner Prize money
CSI5* 124 £1,099 £7,050 £14,500,889£14.5m
International, no star rating 226 £39 £208 £423,125
CSI4* 71 £500 £3,125 £1,657,862£1.7m
CSI3* 173 £417 £3,300 £2,597,738£2.6m
CSI2* 325 £100 £469 £2,141,934£2.1m
National 272 £94 £167 £486,720
CSI1* 480 £33 £250 £655,601

What the sport pays out each season

Every class of every year added together

8 seasons

Frequently asked questions

Which country wins the most show jumping prize money?

Netherlands, £4,528,085 across 899 riders and 796 wins between 2018 and 2026.

How concentrated is show jumping prize money by country?

The top three nations hold 44.6% of everything in this section and the top ten hold 92.9%, out of 73 that have been paid at all.

Which nation has the most riders in the money?

Netherlands, with 899 riders paid. 14 nations have had exactly one rider paid, ever.

Do show jumpers get paid by their federation?

No. A national federation selects a team and pays its costs at a championship, and that is the whole of the relationship. Everything on this page is prize money won class by class, and it is paid to the owner of the horse rather than to the rider or the flag.

Which nations have a page of their own?

The 59 with two or more riders in the money. With one rider a nation page is that rider's page with a flag on it, so the other 14 sit on the table above and link to the rider instead.

Where to next

The nations, the riders and the rest of the sport

Every nation with a page

The fifty richest riders

Seasons and levels

The rest of the section