NEW YORK – June 11, 2019 – Forbes today released its annual ranking of the World’s 100 Highest-Paid athletes, who collectively earned $4 billion over the last 12 months, up 5% from last year’s earnings of $3.8 billion. Lionel Messi was named the world’s highest-paid athlete for the first time, up from second place last [...]
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athletes, who collectively earned $4 billion over the last 12 months, up 5% from last year’s earnings of $3.8 billion. was named the world’s highest-paid athlete for the first time, up from second place last year, with $127 million in total earnings. Messi unseatswho held the crown last year, and was the leader four times in seven years. Behind Messi is longtime rival returned to the ranking, after no women appeared in 2018.
“The global impact of soccer is clearly reflected in earnings in 2019, with the top three athletes on the list being Messi, Ronaldo, and Neymar,” said , senior editor, Forbes Media. “But basketball players continue to dominate the top 100 overall with 35 athletes on the list earning a total of $1.29 billion, with 72% of that income coming from salaries rather than endorsement deals.”
The list of elite athletes consists of players from ten different sports. NBA stars lead with 35 basketball players among the top 100, down from 40 in 2018, headed by . Football was the next most-represented sport with 19 players, followed by baseball with 15, and soccer with 12. There are 25 different countries represented on this year’s World’s Highest-Paid Athletes list, up from 22 in 2018. Americans dominate the action with 62 athletes thanks to the sky-high salaries in the major sports leagues. The U.K. has five athletes, France and Spain have three, while Brazil, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Serbia and Venezuela all have two.Our earnings include prize money, salaries and bonuses earned between June 1, 2018 and June 1, 2019.
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