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The European Athletics Championships in 2028 will offer a record prize fund worth about \u00a33m when they are staged in Silesia, Poland.<\/b><\/p>\n
Prize money will be awarded to athletes finishing in the top eight across all 50 events.<\/p>\n
Gold medal winners will earn 30,000 euros (\u00a325,720), while silver and bronze medallists will receive 15,000 euros (\u00a312,860) and 10,000 euros (\u00a38,573) respectively.<\/p>\n
Athletes finishing fourth to eighth across the 50 disciplines will receive awards of 5,000, 4,000, 3,000, 2,000 and 1,000 euros respectively.<\/p>\n
European Athletics has restructured the way in which prize money is awarded, ensuring athletes finishing in the top eight in every discipline receive financial recognition.<\/p>\n
The prize fund on offer at the last championships, held in Birmingham in August of this year, did not involve a standard payout for every medal position.<\/p>\n
Instead, a total pot of 500,000 euros (\u00a3428,000) was split equally between the top 10 performances across 10 categories – five for men and five for women – determined by the World Athletics scoring tables.<\/p>\n