The 10 countries that best pay their medalists and where is Mexico
Like most of the 11,000 athletes competing in the Tokyo Olympic Games, Cheung Ka-Long faced great difficulties.The fencer arrived at the games in the 19th place in Florete, and his way was not easier from there: he had to face the 2018 world champion Alessio Foconi in the round of 16 before facing the Olympic defending champion, Daniele Garozzo,In the round of 16.
But Cheung, who had brought Hong Kong's flag during the opening ceremony, caused his native territory to be proud, fighting an initial deficit against Garozzo to become the first Olympic champion of Hong Kong in 25 years.Will soon collect another type of gold: the government of the territory rewards its Olympic athletes with 5 million dollars from Hong Kong (about $ 643,000 at the current exchange rate) by gold medals in individual events.
For most athletes, in addition to some highly paid Olympic athletes such as Kevin Durant and Naomi Osaka, competing at this elite level is a financial struggle.There are equipment costs, training costs, medical costs and more, which causes athletes to look for sponsors and subsidies cash.But the few selects that can climb the podium (339 medal games in Tokyo games are expected to be awarded, in 33 sports) they can find that their countries are willing to make everything worthwhile.
The United States, for example, is giving $ 37,500 for each gold medal that earns an athlete in Tokyo, $ 22,500 per silver and $ 15,000 per bronze, in addition to subsidies and benefits such as medical insurance that offers more widely.These figures have increased from $ 25,000, $ 15,000 and $ 10,000 that were paid at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.The host country of these games, Japan, pays similarly, with bonuses by approximately 45,000 for gold, 18,000 for silver and 9,000 for bronze, except in baseball, and members of the Japanese team, according to reports, in the additional 45,000 row if they can win the tournament.
In Mexico, for example, the National Sports Commission (Conade) is expected.
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In addition to the scholarship, Mexican athletes receive a bonus for their medal, although Andrés Manuel López Obrador said they will be rewarded with "something special," did not specify amounts.
In the 2016 Rio Games, the Mexican athletes who reached medals received 3 million pesos for gold ($ 150,793), although no one won said medal in Brazil;Silver 2 million pesos ($ 100,500) and 1 million pesos for bronze ($ 50,270).
Not all countries offer a prize for a podium performance.Great Britain, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden, for example, do not offer any additional payment for medals, nor the smallest delegations such as Saint Kitts and Nevis, Tonga or the Virgin Islands of the United States.But many countries do, and although the United States and Japan have many companies in their general price range, individual gold medals payments in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Portugal, Serbia and Switzerland, to name a few, areThey extend from around $ 15,000 to $ 70,000, all of them could be said that they enter the rank of the modest.
There is much more money available, particularly from countries that are still trying to succeed in the Olympic Games and do not expect to distribute medals in their rosters.
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Here are ten countries that offer six -digit rewards for Olympic gold medalists.
Singapore
Premio por una medalla de oro individual: 1 millón de dólares de Singapore (738,000 dólares)
Singapore offers the highest known payment for an individual gold medalist in 1 million dollars from Singapore, more $ 500,000 rewards for silver medalists and $ 250,000 for bronze medalists.(In team events, medalists are distributed large amounts of money).Until Friday night, Singapore was not among the 70 countries that had won a medal in these games, but could compete at the Table Tennis event for women's teams next week.
Taiwan
Premio por una medalla de oro individual: 20 millones de nuevos dólares taiwaneses (716,000 dólares)
Taiwan or Taipei, as is known in the Olympic Games, is already committed to a great payment this year: the weight lifter Kuo Hsing-Chun established Olympic records in the female division of less than 59 kilograms to claim gold.The rewards are actually filtered below the places of the podium, and the Olympic athletes that end seventh or eighth in their events still claim new $ 900,000 from Taiwan (32,000 dollars), almost as much as a winner of an American gold medal.
Indonesia
Premio por una medalla de oro individual: 5,000 millones de rupias indonesias (346,000 dólares)
Indonesia paid 5 billion rupees to its 2016 gold medalists, the Badminton team of Mixed Father great.Olympic champions also receive an allocation of around $ 1,400 per month, for life.Eko Yuli Irawan is the best interpreter of the delegation so far in Tokyo, having captured a money in the 61 -kilogram weight lifting division.
Bangladesh
Premio por una medalla de oro individual: $ 300,000 dólares
Bangladesh, who has never won an Olympic medal, has pledged to pay about $ 300,000 for gold, about $ 150,000 for silver and about $ 100,000 for bronze, according to an official of the National Olympic Committee.Only one of the six athletes of the delegation in Tokyo still has the opportunity to win that award this year: the 400 -meter corridor Mohammad Jahir Rayhan, who will be lucky enough to get out of the preliminaries.
Kazakhstan
Premio por una medalla de oro individual: 250,000 dólares
An official of the Kazakhstan government announced this month that the winners of the gold medal would receive $ 250,000, the 150,000 silver medalists and the bronze medalists 75,000 dollars.There was not much time for an athlete to seek to reach such a prize: two Kazakh competitors won the bronze last Saturday, in weight lifting and judo, and another weightlifter continued with a bronze on Monday.As reported, the residents of the Central Asia country also offer large cash awards to medalists.
Malaysia
Premio por una medalla de oro individual: 1 millón de ringgits de Malasia (237,000 dólares)
Like Indonesia, the Malaysian government gives medalists a unique payment and a monthly allocation: an advance of approximately $ 237,000 per gold, 71,000 per silver or 24,000 per bronze plus approximately 1,200, 700 or 470 dollars per month.After a decree of August 2016, Paralympic athletes from Malaysia receive the same amounts.
Italy
Premio a la medalla de oro individual: 180,000 euros (214,000 dólares)
Italy now pays 180,000 euros to its gold medalists, a 20% increase since 2016, plus 90,000 for silver and 60,000 for bronze.That is a lot of green: the Italyns won 28 medals in the 2016 Games, the ninth most among all countries, and have 20 medals in Tokyo, good for the seventh at the table from Friday night.
Philippines
Premio a una medalla de oro individual: 10 millones de pesos filipinos (200,000 dólares)
Hidylyn Díaz's weight lifter took the first Olympic gold in the Philippines on Monday, ending a 97 -year -old drought and ensuring the official prize of approximately 200,000 dollars offered by the Philippines Sports Commission.But their earnings did not stop there.The Commission promised to give Díaz 5 million additional pesos, and with the contributions of President Rodrigo Duterte, the city of Zamboanga and other people and companies, she must transport 48.5 million pesos Filipino ($ 970,000), as well as a house.A condominium unit, a truck and unlimited flights in two airlines.
Nor is it the only one that takes home an extracurricular prize.Manipur's state government has pledged to give the weightlifting of India India Saikhom Mirabai Chanu 10 million Indian rupees ($ 134,000) for her performance at the silver medal.
Hungary
Premio por una medalla de oro individual: 50 millones de florines húngaros (166,000 dólares)
Hungary disbursely disbursely.Each member of a medal winning team is eligible for the same amount as an individual athlete: great news for the Hungarian male water polo team, a perennial threat of the gold medal.
Kosovo
Premio a la medalla de oro individual: 100,000 euros (119,000 dólares)
The Government of little Kosovo is paying 100,000 euros to the gold medalists, 60,000 to the silver and 40,000 medalists to the bronze medalists, with two Olympic champions (the Judokas Nora Gjakova and Distria Krasniqi) in Tokyo and.Olympic coaches can win half (50,000, 30,000 or 20,000 euros) for the actions of their athletes.In addition, the Kosovo Olympic Committee plans to offer its own reward to gold medalists, and the sum is still deciding, said a committee to Forbes.
Estonia
Premio a la medalla de oro individual: 4,600 euros (5,500 dólares) al año de por vida
Estonia does not officially deliver a six -digit payment check, but deserves recognition as a number 11 honorary in this list for giving its Olympic gold medalists an life allocation of 4,600 euros per year (5,500 dollars), with additional support asThey approach the retirement age.Those salaries will be added for champions as the fences that triumphed in the female teams event.A 29 -year -old Olympic athlete who reaches 78 -year life expectancy would charge more than $ 300,000.
By: Brett Knight
