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2021: As a reward for their achievements, the gold medal winners receive Philharmonic coins worth €17,000. Silver medalists received €13,000, bronze medalists received €11,000 each. 2024: As a reward for their achievements, the gold medal winners receive Philharmonic coins worth €20,000. Bronze medalists received €14,000 each. [5] [6]
When a US athlete wins an Olympic medal, as of 2016, the USOPC paid the winner $25,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver, and $10,000 for bronze. [1] The USOPC increased the payouts by 25% to $37,000 for gold, $22,500 for silver, and $15,000 for bronze beginning in 2017. [ 2 ]
At the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, US athletes received a total of $5.6 million in payments for medal performances through “Operation Gold.”. For instance, the US Olympic ...
A CNN Sport analysis has found that many Paralympic champions are being paid less in rewards ... gold medal winners AU$20,000 (around $13,400), while Czech Republic is considerably more generous ...
This is a partial list of multiple Olympic gold medalists, listing people who have won four or more Olympic gold medals. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. (If they were, Ray Ewry would be second on the list with 10 gold.) It includes top-three placings in 1896 and 1900, before medals were awarded for top-three placings.
Those who do walk away with a medal do earn a sum of money, but it isn't a lot. In the U.S., athletes make $15,000 for a bronze medal, $22,500 for silver and $37,500 for gold.
A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics (one in classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon).
HelloTickets compiled a list of which countries pay the most per medal with Hong Kong leading the way with $768,000 for gold, $384,000 for silver and $192,000 for bronze.