How Much Do Professional Triathletes Get Paid?
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2019
- When you think about the life of a professional triathlete, it’s easy to conjure up images of a rockstar schedule of globetrotting from one sun kissed race or training location to another, right? It's very rare that this is the case, Mark and Fraser are taking a look into how triathlete’s manage to earn a living and what they actually get paid.
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When you think about the life of a professional triathlete, it’s easy to conjure up images of a rockstar schedule of globetrotting from one sun kissed race or training location to another, right?
Well perhaps for a very select few that might be the case, but the reality for the vast majority of triathletes really doesn’t add up to quite the same.
In this video Mark and Fraser thought it would be interesting to delve into the intricacies of how triathlete’s manage to earn a living and what they actually get paid - if at all - to swim, bike and run.
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Ive won crates of beer and some socks from running races, cant quit working just yet....
I have a huge collection of t-shirts. Maybe I can make some money and quit my job.
I think the Brownlees got the best sponsorship deal - after all, everybody needs to eat and Aldi is a pretty good supermarket chain.
The biggest issue is that triathlon is the least "backyard sport" of backyard sports. The cost of entry to the sport of football is $20 and the ability to sprint 30 meters. So any elementary school can add it to the program and hook fans from childhood. Plus, it's social. Then offer a few scholarships to make it competitive. Next thing you know there are 100 million dads sitting at the bar talking about how they almost made the cut... Meanwhile, the cost of entry to triathlon is still a few hundred dollars if you buy everything used, the aerobic and technical fortitude to partake in 3 disciplines, and the willingness to grind it out on your own. Everyone can play mainstream sports. Few can participate in a triathlon. This is the unfortunate reason why we won't find it in stadiums and most athletes won't see $1m prize purses. (Unless it becomes a gambling sport like boxing, which is unlikely... Mayweather McGreggor anyone?)
awesome video I have been very interested in this topic for a while and its great for someone to come along and gather all the information into one place and professionally explain the commercial side of triathlon. Thanks and keep up to great videos
$8,000? So, just enough to cover the entry fee.
Pro's don't pay entry fees....
Don‘t you think all the pros in the top 10 get sponsored and don’t pay for the entry fee or the trip, bike and so on...
@@srbmckenzie Fwiw, Pros pay entry fees all the time. It just depends on the race organization. Ironman athletes pay an annual membership fee or can pay race by race.
@@srbmckenzie I don't know why bother to say this but man, that was a joke
The prize money of the top ironman that he earns in a year is less than what an English Premiere League football player can earn IN A WEEK.
It's directly related to viewership. Nobody watches 10 hours of an Ironman event. About 2 hours seems to be the sweet spot for sports on TV. The olympic distance should generate the highest viewership and therefore have the highest price money. However, the number of fans is still not comparable to that of more popular sports.
I remember working out in 2005 that it would take 15 years of my actual salary to match what David Beckham earned in just one week.... At Real Madrid he was on £17m a year which, personally, I find pretty outrageous 🤨
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Hi GTN，thank you for explaining this topic that I was very confused to become a professional triathlete about how much can I used to live，there is so much elite triathlete out there suffering for just a living，it seems only concentrate on the sport is not enough for their salary，most of them have to work part-time or being a coach，so they don't have enough time to training，and will be hard to perform well in a representative race，so I considering maybe a kindness corporate can stand out and raise a foundation for poor athletes，and that's why GTN are here！I only hope that passionate athletes don't give up on their dreams😊
I can tell you how you can make more money doing triathlon:
1) Do planned scheduled training.
2) Persist with your efforts, but do it smart with recovery times, and negotiate obstacles.
3) Apply acquired attitude and self confidence from 1) and 2) towards your work, study, and every day life.
As a bonus hunting tip: you may enroll in a local tri or cycling club... make friends. And remember: todays cycling is the yestedrays golf.
The problem with triathlon is lack of money put in by spectators. Sports such as tennis, baseball, basketball, football etc have stadiums where fans pay for entry tickets. The lack of that in triathlon means it's way harder to fund these prize pools.
Could be an interesting idea. Could you build an indoor triathlon in a massive stadium. Swim in a huge pool course, come out into a huge cycling oval that goes around the swim course. Then on a level above the oval a huge running track that they finally race around to the finish. Crowds of 100,000 sound about right and the stadiums should be double the size of an American football stadium
@@rogerc23 Indoor arena racing is already happening - but having it in a full 100,000 stadium would be incredible - one day 🤞
I was looking at this last week. And I think it's disgusting that the winner of an Ironman branded event will only take home $8k given the amount of money that each race takes in entry fees etc. It doesn't reflect the hard work that goes into winning that race. I also saw that the winner of the Ironman regional championships get paid $30k for a race win. So I'm surprised that more athletes don't focus on those races as you can come 3rd or 4th & still earn more than you would by winning somewhere else
Capitalism is a bitch
I think Pros pay a one off fee to Ironman for the year
Triathlon as an activity in itself is one hell of an ego trip. And in such a thing there's simply not that much room left for a casual spectator to emotionally buy-in. IOW your average consumer, somewhat overweight, hamburger eating, coke or beer drinking smoker who can barely swim 100 meters or run 1km has no time for and sees no thrill in an 8+ hours long individual, repetitive and frankly - rather dull activity. IOW nobody throws money at you when you do things pretty nobody cares about.
Look at the billion dollar television deals that the major sports you mentioned have in comparison to triathlon.
Bretzky I would absolutely love to see Ironman aired on TSN or ESPN
thanks! You anser all my questions!
Ironman Pro entry (based on 2018) works by each athlete pays an annual fee to Ironman of $1,000 and that gives them unlimited race entries for the year.
Like pro bodybuilders, pro triathletes aren't in it for the money, they do it because they love their sport🏊♂️🚴♂️🏃♂️🏋️♂️like bodybuilders only a handful of triathletes make good money,also only a handful of powerlifters make money from their sport. I've done all 3 of these sports and done martial arts( another money maker)I still do all these sports,and work as a Truck driver. I do these sports because I like each of them equally and when I was a teenager and early 20s the disciple I got from these sports kept me away from gangs and drugs and other bad influences,and gave me a healthy lifestyle, and that is priceless💪👍💪🤠🏊♂️🚴♂️🏃♂️🏋️♂️🥊🥋👟🤗to all my fellow brothers and sisters in Triathlon and the Iron game,or the Dojo keep doing what you're doing and keep on training!!! 💪🤠
Fascinating video guys, so much effort for so little cash, unlike footballers so much cash for so little effort!!!
You can earn so much more (and in the long-term in term of sustainability) using the biggest muscle of your body - your brain. Sports should not be about money, but being the best of yourself and fun.
Considering how much more popular the sport is getting, I can see athletes being paid more in the future. Attention gets money, and Ironman events seems to be getting the sport out there well!
Very interesting subject. I'm amazed at the amount of people I see calling themselves pro-triathletes who do very little to advertise sponsors or win races regularly - I can't believe they make a living from the sport . I'd also be interested to know how sponsors pay their athletes, as this seems a very murky world which athletes are reluctant to discuss publicly.
I believe some athletes get a salary from sponsors; others just get discounts or some equipment, the range of sponsorship it too wide.
@@nightsfalling I suspect very few athletes get paid by sponsors directly, possibly just the Red bull and Erdinger type sponsors who follow the very elite triathletes because of their profile. My guess would be that 95% of sponsorship's are kit provider based meaning that race wins become essential, but the money for those is not as good as many suspect. Many triathletes I know top up their incomes by being PT's or coaches - but then, are they really 'professional triathletes'?
@@nightsfalling I suspect very few athletes get paid by sponsors directly, possibly just the Red bull and Erdinger type sponsors who follow the very elite triathletes because of their profile. My guess would be that 95% of sponsorship's are kit provider based meaning that race wins become essential, but the money for those is not as good as many suspect. Many triathletes I know top up their incomes by being PT's or coaches - but then, are they really 'professional triathletes'?
@@rogga1011 oh yes, I agree probably very few athletes but I am saying "some" have sponsors who pay them a salary. I think they also have a fee when they go talk to a convention or something like that.
As a professional athlete, I would estimate that less than 5% actually turn a profit from sponsors/race winnings in a given a year. There are many more that supplement their income from being coaches or have full-time or part-time jobs in addition. Professional Triathlete is just a title. The reality is the sport is very consuming sport between swim, bike, run and everything else that it takes from eating, to message, to grocery shopping more frequently than the over joe to using the restroom and sleeping more.
But yes the reality is that it has become a lose-lose for most pros, but the very top, to do a significant amount of work on behalf of their sponsors. The reason why is there are many more athlete who collectively with a team, or maybe they just have a decent following themselves, and are willing to accept much less compensation to do a lot of the grass-roots marketing on places like UA-cam/Insta/FB insta which devalues the professionals. It is what it is.
More than me... it cost me a lot of mony...but it is worth every cent 😁
thanks guys. its such a beautiful sport. one benefit of not having bucket loads of money involved is that doping is not so prevalent (yet).
Doping is more and more common at the amateur level now because of minimal or non existent testing
Not to mention you only have a 10 year window in which you stand any chance of being competitive.
Well earning money is all about the viewers and attention to the sport. How much I love to watch 8 hours sports on a day, it is not for everyone. And it isn't the most exciting and explosive sport to watch, I kinda understand why those numbers are so low. I don't agree, but understand.
This year at Outlaw Half Holkham, Will Clarke won the event and got a £1500 cheque.
One other thing to note is that Ironman has progressively decreased prize purses over the past 10 years, despite inflation going up. Obviously something isn’t right here
Also, at a US race, if you aren’t a US citizen you’re going to have 30% subtracted out for tax withholding. And then if you are a US citizen it’s technically gambling winnings, and you’re going to be taxed on your prize money at a 40% rate
The prize money per individual is very very low by any standards. Even for a sport like professional bodybuilding, the prize money is less unless that individual is a sponsored athlete.
I am not sure if my comparison is right or wrong, but individual sports like Boxing or Golf , the prize money is HUGE.
Would be great if you interviewed different pro triathletes and asked them about how much they made and where it came from
You could spend months waking up at 4am pushing your body to the brink of annihilation for $500 (if you're lucky) or you could put a few videos out on youtube showing how you've lost 20 stone on the 'rhubarb' diet and be guaranteed a fortune
Lol yes
Until it becomes more of a tv friendly sport then it won’t change.
BBC show a bit of triathlon these days, but Ironman coverage is abysmal. I remember sitting in Lanzarote last year watching Kona on a live stream....that’s the best even Lanzarote could manage.
Triathlon can never be a proper TV or even stream sport because its viewer base will use the offtime to train rather than watch TV
Pulkit Sharma sure it can, mass start, head and bodycams all the way etc etc.
@@willemhaifetz-chen1588 Who'll watch it? The viewer base is too busy developing their aerobic threshold.
Few thoughts, I wonder how that 20th ranked triathlete compares to the 20th ranked swimmer, cyclist, or runner? Also, category cycling races almost always have a prize purse and it's rare that age group triathlete will ever race for a prize purse in local races. I always wondered why that is.
It's known for the "low-end" of Tour de France riders (which is still the top 1% of the top 1% of cyclists in general) to have just a basic salary of around 30k per year.
Once there's a monetary prize involved it's generally no longer an amateur sport, most local/regional age group stuff is strictly amateur, help discourage cheating in some ways...it can also be a big deal in the way of organizing a race if there's a monetary prize involved, a charity boxing event I've been involved with for a few years now wanted to have a cash prize(with pro fighters) but it was a huge hassle to license and insure it, was easier and cheaper to keep it solely amateur
Ironman... A company sold for $650m and they offer first place $8k... They should be ashamed.
Companies can be worth billions and still lose billions a year. Look at uber for instance. Just because a company is worth alot doesnt mean they have extra money laying around.
Hey guys! How can I go pro in the US?
They are talking about prize money! Not about the sponsors
Can you make an interview with some former Triathletes, like Natacha Oceane?
00:06 - 00:08 you can see it from fraser's eye, part of his money was in it. But mark shove it to his side.
The median income for US NFL'er $860K, for maybe performing for a portion of the ~11 minute total time of actual play between the whistles in a 3-hour game ... does not seem fair!
Are you kidding me, that's a lot of money! I'm a fencer and if you win the fencing world championships the best you can hope to win is maybe a nice watch.
It's just number of views /advertising income. Do triathletes themselves even watch the sport?
I love performing triathlon, but to be fair it is painfully boring to watch. Especially those long courses.
Jakub Kolomicenko isn’t it similar to Tour de France?
Jonas Grønbek nah tdf has the thrid largest viewership metrics in the world of sports
@@trentonlau830 I meant in terms of excitement. My point was that I think it is because of the lack of exposure. However I have started looking in to Tour de France since then, and there is some dynamics and tactics that don't exist in triathlons
you know what i figured out, this sport is for rich people
all this equipment than home gear than flying to overseas and staying there
arranging exercises and nutrition and recovery all of this stuff cost thousands of dollars/euros
not everyone can afford it although many people would like to
i wonder how can one person find a sponsor for that can you show the way?
And what is the tax rate on these winnings, that could be a huge !
I never imagined anything to be glamorous for a triathlete, and figures they weren't paid that all, I thought they did it for the love.
Tv coverage fees can boost the income of this sports like Soccer. Maybe add sports betting to it then more can get money
This is why you kill it in your 20 into mid 30s whole training and then you go full time training after and already have money coming in.
My dad once won an ostrich in a triathlon
You didnt really answer the question. The question was how much do they get paid and at the end of the show we still have no idea. You barely gave us an idea of some sources of income. For example, how much does Mirinda Carfrae make each year. If you tell me she makes $120,000 which is what I inferred from your show, there is no change you are even close. She owns TWO homes worth over $1,000,000, she has TWO cars worth almost $100,000, and she spends over $100,000 on travel, manager, trainers, and wine.
To think 1 golfer makes more than a years prize purse in one winning 🤣🤣
I would think every professional athlete is motivated more by living the lifestyle or fame or glory than the money. Even LeBron James, I’m sure he’s the highest paid right now. He doesn’t need the money I’m sure he plays for all the other reasons. It happens in the NHL a lot a player gets a big deal and can’t live up to it so they bury him in the minors. That guy would trade his money to play in the bigs if he could.
itu athletes are more motivated by the olympics than money. If you want money, you do Ironman
Peanuts, it is truly ridiculous considering how many people are participating. For TV to be involved, drafting needs to be allowed and makes it more interesting for the tv spectator. Non-drafting is boring in the long format.
Carl Rodgers it wouldn’t matter it’s too long to watch. I guess people like cricket, but think about how every other sport takes less than 3 hours to finish.
Carl Rodgers Drafting is the worst, they should just have a swim and a run. (Wheelsucking makes it completely boring). At least non draft legal showcases the actual strength / talent of the competitors
I'm guessing Aliaster is earning the most money followed by his bro/Gomez/Frodo in some kind of order there?
They deserve everything they get, there are footy players earning what they get in a year in one week!
If a triathlete wants to make a living in a sport they should switch to baseball, it's boring as hell but a pro triathlete is 1000x the athlete of any ball player, they should make it to the majors in no time...or get into fighting, there's plenty of money to be made there
No one watches that stuff... So yeah pay sucks in that sport...
NOT well paid is the answer. Win an Iron Man World and you should make at least 500k. Not many people are really earning a living. You need to earn at least 50-75 K a year and that is not really much. How much does Iron Man itself make a year?
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Think they need more endorsement income to supplement the pathetic prize money for all the hard work
I see a number of comments comparing what a professional triathlete can earn & what a professional footballer earns. In my humble opinion, triathlon & football shouldn't even appear in the same sentence.
Football = 90 minutes of kicking a ball around a field (with 10 other people to help you) & a 15 minute break, halfway through, because your little legs are tired.
Triathlon = 3 different sports ... nobody to help you ... & no breaks between disciplines.
I rest my case as to who is the more deserving!
Oh, & triathlon supporters don't go around beating each other up & wrecking cities either! Just sayin ;-)
Charles, It's all about TV rights and sponsorships. If very few people watched football they wouldn't be paid well. Triathlon struggles to get the casual TV viewer to be interested in watching the sport.
@@davidtydeman1434 ... True, very true. And, of course, it may also depend on intelligence levels ... if you get my inference ? ;-)
Start young live out of a van, get a side hustle you might break even outside of ITU..
this really sad, where does all the money go? ??
Event organizers, TV rights companies and other companies must give a bigger share of their pie to drive this sport.
wait, the winner of a 70.3 get 3000$? lol what the fuck is this farce?!
Nobody cares about Ironman.......The vast majority of people involved in the sport do it for health reasons and thats good....Other than that......SOCCER and other sports are KING.....
Thats why Ill be Number 1
Wait for 2030
i know for a fact a good amount make 100,000$+ with sponsors and coaching jobs
Max Roth I know for a fact that’s a lie lol
As a professional triathlete I can assure you that is a lie. It certainly depends on the nationality, but here in the US the number of athletes making $100,000 is pretty small. If they have a big coaching business, they are probably not very good athletes by way of the amount of time it takes to run the business. And If you are just talking about revenue that is one thing but there are a lot of expenses that go into being a professional athlete that can quickly obliterate the top-end number.
too long...6 minutes b4 u got to long money. 1 minute of info squeezed into 12 minutes. we are time crunched amateurs...
this video ate up too much of my day
My God you guys are boring. You pack 4 minutes of info into a 12 minute video.