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This list does not reflect the highest annual salaries or career earnings, only the top 100 largest contracts and thus is largely limited to athletes in team sports and auto racing. Athletes in individual sports , such as golf , tennis , table tennis , boxing , kickboxing , and MMA , are not employed by a team and usually earn money primarily ...
Gaius Appuleius Diocles was born in 104 AD in the Roman province of Lusitania, in the Western Iberian peninsula.He made his racing debut in Rome at the age of 18, in 122 AD with the racing stable known as the Whites, but did not win a race until two years later.
This is a list of the highest-paid athletes in the world as ranked by Forbes magazine. 2024 list. The 2024 list: [1] Rank Name Sport Country Total Salary/winnings
Tennis champion Naomi Osaka was the last woman to make the list, being the highest-paid female athlete in 2022 and ranking 20th on the list with her reported $53.2 million in earnings.
Unsurprisingly, Al-Nassr's Cristiano Ronaldo was the highest-paid athlete in the world in 2024, earning $260 million last year. ... Still, despite the lack of play time, he's a top-100 earner ...
It’s no surprise boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. is one of the richest athletes of all time, as he was Forbes’ highest-paid athlete of 2015 with a $300 million salary.
Becoming a pro athlete can mean a big payday, especially if endorsement deals are added to career earnings and business deals. Here are the sports stars who made the most. The Highest-Paid Sports ...
READ MORE: The 21 richest golfers in the world. According to Britannica, in 1964 iconic bowler Don Carter was the first athlete to earn a $1 million contract in any professional sport. The bowler ...