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People I 06/03/2020
The Richest Athletes in the World
Forbes Ranking 2020: Roger Federer Is Highest Paid Athlete Tennis star Roger Federer even outshines football stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in the Forbes ranking of the highest paid athletes in 2020. Only two women make it into the top 100.
Roger Federer is the best earning athlete in 2020. Image credit: Imago
Roger Federer is the highest-earning athlete in 2020. This is the conclusion reached by Forbes in its athlete ranking for 2020, which takes into account prize money, salaries, bonuses, endorsements, royalties and appearance fees from June 1, 2019 to June 1, 2020. The Swiss tennis star had total revenues of 106.3 million dollars (approx. 95 million euros) in this year's ranking. Of this, 6.3 million dollars were prize money and 100 million dollars were income from endorsements. In the previous year, Federer was in fi�h place with a earnings of 93.4 million dollars.
In second place comes soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo from Juventus Turin with a pay of 105 million dollars (60 million dollars salary, 45 million dollars endorsements). Third is Lionel Messi from FC Barcelona with 104 million dollars (72 million dollars salary, 32 million dollars endorsements). In 2019, Messi was the highest earning athlete.
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Position 1
Name Roger Federer
Total pay (in million dollars)
106.3
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
6.3
Endorsements (in million dollars)
100
Sport Tennis
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Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams Only Women in Top 100
Only two women made it into the ranking of the 100 highest paid athletes. The Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka is in 29th place with 37.4 million dollars (3.4 million dollars in prize money, 34 million dollars in endorsements). US tennis queen Serena Williams comes in at 36 million dollars in pay, making her 33rd (4 million dollars in prize money, 32 million dollars in endorsements).
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The Forbes Top 20 at a Glance
Position 2
Name Cristiano Ronaldo
Total pay (in million dollars)
105
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
60
Endorsements (in million dollars)
45
Sport Football
Position 3
Name Lionel Messi
Total pay (in million dollars)
104
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
72
Endorsements (in million dollars)
32
Sport Football
Position 4
Name Neymar
Total pay (in million dollars)
95.5
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
70.5
Endorsements (in million dollars)
25
Sport Football
Position 5
Name LeBron James
Total pay (in million dollars)
88.2
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
28.2
Endorsements (in million dollars)
60
Sport Basketball
Position 6
Name Stephen curry
Total pay (in million dollars)
74.4
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
30.4
Endorsements (in million dollars)
44
Sport Basketball
Position 7
Name Kevin Durant
Total pay (in million dollars)
63.9
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
28.9
Endorsements (in million dollars)
35
Sport Basketball
Position 8
Name Tiger Woods
Total pay (in million dollars)
62.3
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
2.3
Endorsements (in million dollars)
60
Sport Golf
Position 9
Name Kirk Cousins
Total pay (in million dollars)
60.5
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
58
Endorsements (in million dollars)
2.5
Sport American Football
Position 10
Name Carson Wentz
Total pay (in million dollars)
59.1
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
55.1
Endorsements (in million dollars)
4
Sport American Football
Position 11
Name Tyson Fury
Total pay (in million dollars)
57
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
50
Endorsements (in million dollars)
7
Sport Boxing
Position 12
Name Russell Westbrook
Total pay (in million dollars)
56
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
29
Endorsements (in million dollars)
27
Sport Basketball
Position 13
Name Lewis Hamilton
Total pay (in million dollars)
54
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
42
Endorsements (in million dollars)
12
Sport Formula 1
Position 14
Name Rory McIlroy
Total pay (in million dollars)
52
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
22
Endorsements (in million dollars)
30
Sport Golf
Position 15
Name Jared Go�
Total pay (in million dollars)
49
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
47
Endorsements (in million dollars)
2
Sport American Football
Position 16
Name Conor McGregor
Total pay (in million dollars)
48
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
32
Endorsements (in million dollars)
16
Sport Mixed Martial Arts
Position 17
Name James Harden
Total pay (in million dollars)
47.8
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
28.8
Endorsements (in million dollars)
19
Sport Basketball
Position 18
Name Giannis Antetokounmpo
Total pay (in million dollars)
47.6
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
19.6
Endorsements (in million dollars)
28
Sport Basketball
Position 19
Name Anthony Joshua
Total pay (in million dollars)
47
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
36
Endorsements (in million dollars)
11
Sport Boxing
Position 20
Name Deontay Wilder
Total pay (in million dollars)
46.5
Salary/Winnings (in million dollars)
46
Endorsements (in million dollars)
0.5
Sport Boxing
