15min already wrote about the amounts stipulated by law that the Lithuanian state will allocate to the prize winners of the recent European Championships.
Monetary prizes have also been confirmed by the organizers of international competitions.
Only their principles are quite different.
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The best swimmers of the European Championships will not become wealthy after the competition in Paris.
At the competitions organized by “European Aquatics,” the prize pool has always been much more modest than at the “World Aquatics” World Championships, so money did not pour down at the continental swimming championships held in the French capital from August 10–16.
For the champion title in the 50 m breaststroke final, Rūta Meilutytė should receive a 2,000 euro check – like every winner of an individual event.
Tomas Navikonis, who won silver in the 200 m freestyle, will receive 1,500 euros.
For third places, 1,000 euros each were allocated, and in relay competitions, the teams that took prize places received different total amounts (3,500 euros for first place, 3,000 for second, 2,500 for third), but Lithuanian swimmers in a couple of relays stayed just off the podium – they were fourth and fifth.
Bigger prizes at the European Swimming Championship were also promised for records: 10,000 for world, 5,000 for European.
So the biggest prize in Paris was won by Italian swimmer Sara Curtis, who twice broke the world records in the 50 m backstroke event, accumulating a total of 25,600 euros during the competition.
The second largest prize went to German Johannes Liebmann. The 19-year-old broke the world record in the 1500 m freestyle and the European record in the 800 m, earning a total of 19,000 euros.
Only 10 awarded in athletics
The organizers of the European Athletics Championships distributed prizes differently.
Having introduced a new distribution system for the first time in Rome 2024, they again divided events into groups, with the best in each group awarded a gold crown and 50,000 euros.
According to this system, Norway, Switzerland, and Sweden each had two winners who set European Championship records at the Birmingham championships:
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Men’s sprints and hurdles – Karsten Warholm (Norway, 400 m hurdles);
Women’s sprints and hurdles – Henriette Jaeger (Norway, 400 m run);
Men’s middle and long-distance running – Andreas Almgren (Sweden, 10,000 m run);
Women’s middle and long-distance running – Audrey Werro (Switzerland)
Men’s throws – Kristjan Ceh (Slovenia, discus throw)
Women’s road running/walking, relays – Sofia Fiorini (Italy, marathon running)
The winners of the event groups were determined according to the points system created by “World Athletics.”
For example, Slovenian Kristjan Ceh, who set the European Championships discus throw record, will receive a 50,000 euro prize, but athletes who became champions in javelin, hammer throw, or shot put will not receive it.
Other prize winners, including Mykolas Alekna who won silver in the discus throw competition, did not receive bonuses from the competition organizers.
