No women among world's top 100 highest-paid athletes

[Celerity]

Zero women cracked the list of the world's 100 highest-paid athletes released on Wednesday by Sportico.

https://www.reuters.com/sports/no-women-among-worlds-top-100-highest-paid-athletes-2025-02-12/

U.S. tennis star Coco Gauff was the top-earning female athlete in 2024 with $30.4 million, but that was more than $7 million short of the minimum $37.5 million cutoff to make the top 100.

Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo sits atop the global rankings for the second straight year with $260 million in earnings, including $215 million from his Saudi Pro League club Al Nassr and $45 million off the field.

Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry is a distant second at $153.8 million, with boxer Tyson Fury ($147 million), Inter Miami soccer great Lionel Messi ($135 million) and Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James ($133.2 million) rounding out the top five.

The $100 million club also includes boxer Oleksandr Usyk, soccer players Neymar, Karim Benzema and Kylian Mbappe, golfers Jon Rahm and Scottie Scheffler, and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott.

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[Callie1979]

1. Revenue compensation. The women leaves simply dont draw as much money.

To me, the WNBA is more entertaining because they actually play basketball & dont run 4 steps to the basket.
But a couple yrs ago Serena Williams earned nearly 100 million so I bet she was on the list THAT yr

[DeepWinter]

2. Pro-Sports

is entertainment business. Entertainer that draw eyes get paid. Those that don't, get less.

Women are 50% of the population. If women supported and watched women's sports at the same level, half that list would be women. But women don't. They just don't have the same interests than men do and their money is spent elsewhere.

[Celerity]

3. The most Serena ever earned in one year was around 45.3m USD (2021) and most of that was via endorsements. In terms

of prize money/winnings, over her entire career she 'only' made a total of around 94.8m USD.




Compare that to these salaries/prize money earned in just the last year by men:

https://www.sportico.com/feature/highest-paid-athletes-in-the-world-1234765608/

[DeepWinter]

4. Not surprised Soccer is #1

It dominates world wide, viewership-wise.

[Callie1979]

5. So that was TOTAL earnings. ok.

I'd seen a story about that figure & shouldve read the whole THING