World Athletics announced Wednesday that it will be the first federation to offer prize money to gold medal winners.
For the first time, some winners at this summer's Olympics in Paris will take home more than a gold medal.that it has established a prize fund of $2.4 million that will be used to award $50,000 to the gold medalists in each of the 48 athletics events scheduled for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. It marks the first time that prize money has been offered to Olympians by a sport’s governing body.
Many countries and national Olympic committees offer payments to medalists, but World Athletics will be the first federation to reward winners with cash prizes. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, for example, paid $37,500 to gold medalists at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021,While only gold medalists will receive payouts this year, World Athletics announced a “firm commitment” to offer prizes to silver and bronze medalists at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
“While it is impossible to put a marketable value on winning an Olympic medal, or on the commitment and focus it takes to even represent your country at an Olympic Games, I think it is important we start somewhere and make sure some of the revenues generated by our athletes at the Olympic Games are directly returned to those who make the Games the global spectacle that it is,” World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said in a statement.
The prize money will come from the revenue sharing funds that World Athletics receives from the International Olympic Committee every four years. Gold medalists in individual events will receive the full $50,000, while winners in relay events will split the money.
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