Armand Duplantis Currently earns the most among track and field athletes

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt was for a long time the highest-paid track and field athlete in the world.

However, the top spot changed during the World Championships in Doha in 2019, when the hurdler Sydney McLaughlin, 22, became the top earner in the athletics world. At the time, he was making about $1.5 million a year. McLaughlin’s credit was for utilizing social media in addition to results.

Last summer, during the Tokyo Olympics, McLaughlin signed a cooperation agreement with the shoe company New Balance, with which he began to earn 1.7 million dollars a year. In his career, McLaughlin has won, among other things, the Olympic gold in the 400-meter hurdles.

Currently Swedish Armand Duplantis22, Is the highest earner in the world of athletics, says his agent Daniel Wessfeldt told For Expressen.

– Armand is the world’s best-paid all-around athlete right now. I know that, Wessfeldt said.

However, Wessfeldt did not reveal the exact figures.

Duplantis is the top man in the men’s pole vault. Duplantis has broken world records both indoors and outdoors. Duplantis jumped the new outdoor ME 616 in June in the Diamond League competition in Stockholm.

– When you make records like that, you get money from the organizers, bonuses come from the sponsors, and with that the next year’s basic salary is formed, explained Wessfeldt.

– You get money for setting world records.

Duplantis will compete at the World Championships in Eugene on July 22, when the men’s pole vault qualifiers are on the program.

The Swede has won the pole vault Olympic gold in his career. At the World Championships in Doha, he finished second.