The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will officially end this Sunday, August 11, and Brazil has had one of its best campaigns in the history of the Olympics with a total of 20 medals.
Each Olympic Committee is responsible for financially rewarding the athletes of each country and Brazil is one of the countries that pays the most to its medalists, since, for example, Rebeca Andrade, who won one gold, two silvers and one bronze, managed to earn more in prize money than her American counterpart and rival, Simone Biles, who managed to put three gold medals and one silver around her neck.
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The Brazilian medalists who earned the most money in Paris 2024
According to ESPN Brasil , Rebeca Andrade was by far the Brazilian athlete who earned the most money for her medals at Paris 2024, managing to take home around 826 thousand Brazilian reals, the equivalent of about 150,000 US dollars.
Ela é do nosso lugar. Verde, amarelo, azul e branco. Que alegria ter Rebeca Andrade do Brasil 🇧🇷#TimeBrasil pic.twitter.com/fHXt1MDoeb
— Time Brasil (@timebrasil) August 11, 2024
She was followed by judoka Beatriz Souza, who won gold in the individual category and bronze in the team category, earning a total of 392,000 Brazilian reals. Third place in the ranking went to Ana Patrícia and Duda Lisboa, winners of gold in beach volleyball, who each earned 350,000 reals.
It is no coincidence that the highest-paid athletes in Paris 2024 are also the only ones who were able to climb to the top of the podium to touch gold, since the Brazilian Olympic Committee pays a fixed amount of R$ 350,000 to the athletes who take first place in their respective disciplines.
The rest of the ranking is made up of those athletes who were able to take the remaining medals:
- Rebeca Andrade – 4 medals (Gold, Silver x2 and Bronze): 826,000 Brazilian reals
- Beatriz Souza – 2 medals (Gold and Bronze): 392,000 Brazilian reals
- Ana Patrícia – 1 medal (Gold): 350,000 Brazilian reals
- Duda Lisboa – 1 medal (Gold): 350,000 Brazilian reals
- Willian Lima – 2 medals (Silver and Bronze): 252,000 Brazilian reals
- Caio Bonfim – 1 medal (Silver): 210,000 Brazilian reals
- Tatiana Weston-Webb – 1 medal (Silver): 210,000 Brazilian reals
- Isaquias Queiroz – 1 medal (Silver): 210,000 Brazilian reals
- Larissa Pimienta – 1 medal (Bronze): 140,000 Brazilian reals
- Rayssa Leal – 1 medal (Bronze): 140,000 Brazilian reals
- Bia Ferreira – 1 medal (Bronze): 140,000 Brazilian reals
- Gabriel Medina – 1 medal (Bronze): 140,000 Brazilian reals
- Augusto Akio – 1 medal (Bronze): 140,000 Brazilian reals
- Netinho – 1 medal (Bronze): 140,000 Brazilian reals
- Alison dos Santos – 1 medal (Bronze): 140,000 Brazilian reals
- Artistic Gymnastics Team – 1 medal (Bronze): 56,000 Brazilian reals each*
- Mixed Judo Team – 1 medal (Bronze): 42,000 Brazilian reals each*
- Women’s volleyball team – 1 medal (Bronze): 32,000 Brazilian reals each*
- Women’s football team – 1 medal (Silver): 29,000 Brazilian reals each*
*In team disciplines, a general prize is awarded which is distributed equally among all participants or team members.
