Hay mucho de qué preocuparse en el mundo de los deportes femeninos: disparidades en salarios e instalaciones, malas condiciones de trabajo, falta de cobertura mediática, incluso abusos absolutos. Sin embargo, ante todos esos problemas, también hay una innegable sensación de optimismo. Las ligas están teniendo nuevos propietarios y equipos de expansión. Los índices de audiencia de televisión han subido y las redes están proporcionando nuevos hogares para los juegos. El dinero de los patrocinadores finalmente están llegando y las nuevas empresas están atrayendo inversores.
That growth moves to the payment of athletes.The ten best paid female athletes in the world earned a total of 167 million dollars (145.6two million euros) before taxes in two0two1, according to Forbes estimates, an increase of two3% compared to two0two0 and a jump of 16% with respect to the previous record of 143.3 million dollars (1two4.96 million euros) established in two013.At the head is the ace of tennisNaomi Osaka, who raised 57.3 million dollars (49.97 million euros), easily a record in a year for an athlete.Serena Williams occupies second place with 45.9 million dollars (40.0two million euros).
The panorama is not entirely flattering: Osaka and Williams represent practically all the increase, and no other woman on this list has the most remote possibility of qualifying among the best paid athletes in the world of any sex.On the two0two1 Osaka athlete list landed in the N.° 1two and Williams in the N.° two8;The third best paid woman on this new list,Venus Williams, did not reach the general classification limit for the 50 best athletes that are at two0 million dollars.
In addition, the threshold for the first ten of the list of women is actually a little lower than a decade ago: 5.7 million dollars (4.97 million euros), below 6.1 million dollars(millions of euros) in two01two.
Experts insist, however, that new money and new sponsors are entering female sports;It's just that dollars are distributed among more athletes and make their way into new leagues.For the first time in at least a dozen years, a gymnast (Simone Biles, number 4) and a basketball player (CandaceParker, number 10) appears among the best paid women.And although tennis still occupies five of the ten places on the list, that is the lowest account of sport in more than a decade and a dramatic change since two019, when it occupied the ten.Parker, together with the stars of American football Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe, who were about to reach the first ten, is especially encouraging because it comes from a team sport, where salaries are lower than the metallic awards available in the individual sports.
These are the ten best paid athletes.
Almost all of the 57.3 million dollars in earnings beforeNaomi Osaka taxes come from a sponsorship portfolio that has added more than ten partners, including Louis Vuitton, Sweetgreen and Tag Heuer.In recent months, the two4 -year -old Japanese acquired shareholdings in the StatusPro Virtual Reality Startup and the chicken manufacturer based on Dary Foods plants, launched a NFT collection on the Tom Brady auto -traff platformThe skin called Kinlò.On the court it had a little worse, falling to the 13th place in the female classification and being out of Tokyo's Olympic Games in the third round, but got his fourth Grand Slam title, at the Australian Open in February in February.An abdominal lesion will prevent you from defending your crown in this year's tournament in Melbourne, which will begin on Monday.
If it weren't forNaomi Osaka,Serena Williams would claim the earning record for a female athlete with the 45.9 million dollars (40.0two million euros) that she won in two0two1.The 40 -year -old athlete played in just six WTA Tour tournaments and fell to the 41st position in the female ranking, her worst brand since she returned to tennis in two018 after the birth of her daughter.But it is still a great attraction for advertisers, associating with brands like Nike, Gatorade and, more recently, DirecTV.She is the executive producer of the film King Richard, who tells her father's story, and has investments in more than 60 new companies through her firm Serena Ventures.Williams said last month that Australia's open would be lost because "I'm not where I need to be physically to compete".
It is rare to seeVenus Williams at the WTA Tour lately.In two0two1 he played only nine tournaments and won only three games in two0two1.This would make the profits of most players fall: in the world of tennis, go down in the classification or lose a tournament generally causes a reduction in agreements with sponsors who hope to watch their logos on television.But Williams associations in recent years have focused more on their family than on her sport, and the 41 -year -old player has a lucrative secondary work making appearances in events and giving speeches.He has his own clothing brand, Eleven, who has collaborated with K-Swiss, and like his sister Serena, was executive producer of the movie King Richard.Also as his sister, this year's Australian Open will skip, the first time neither will appear in the Melbourne tournament since 1997.
Tokyo's Olympic Games did not leave asSimone Biles had planned: he retired from five events before winning the bronze in the balance bar.Even so, the two4 -year -old had already assured her status as a legend of gymnastics, and her resilience history seemed to resonate with brands.He associated with Autograph to launch NFT from August and joined the Startup of Cerebral Mental Health as a "impact director" in October.It was also the face of a gymnastics tour after the Olympic Games, the Gold Over America tour, whose initials spells Goat, a wink to its reputation as the best of all time in this sport.
Even counting its runner -up at the two0two0 Australian Open, the last two seasons ofGarbiñe Muguruza have been somewhat disappointing after a dominant streak from two015 to two017.However, he rediscovered his form in two0two1, he won three tournaments and went up to not.3 In female tennis classifications to trigger important sponsors bonds.The two8 -year -old Spanish also added Jaguar and Nivea to her valuable set of sponsorships with brands like Adidas and Babolat.
After almost two consecutive years in the no.1,Jin Young Ko lost first place in the female golf ranking againstNelly Korda, but won a pretty good consolation prize with a victory in the CME Group Tour Final season championship in November in November, claiming 1.5 million dollars(1.31 million euros) and the player's honors of the LPGA year.Although he plays without a team contract, using a mixed set of sticks of different brands, the two6 -year -old player has valuable sponsors of companies of his native South Korea, a crazy country for golf.Its partners include LG Electronics, Korean Air, Jeju Samdasoo mineral water and skin care products rejurate.
PVSindhu can be unknown in the US, but the two6 -year -old Bádminton champion is very popular in India and has appeared among the top ten of this list before, in two018.He followed his winning performance of the silver medal in Rio de Janeiro in two016 with a bronze last year in Tokyo, becoming the first Indian woman with two Olympic medals.He has added four sponsors since he returned home, including the Byju Educational Technology giant and the Spinny used car platform, in addition to partners such as Li-Ning Sportswear and the Baroda Bank of India.
No tennis player won more on the court in two0two1 than Ashleight Barty, the best classified player in the world and the current Wimbledon champion, and is the favorite in the bets to win the Australia Open this month in her homeland.Pero la joven de two5 años, que recientemente firmó un contrato de patrocinio con Marriott Bonvoy, ha servido como recordatorio de las disparidades salariales que aún existen en algunas áreas del deporte cuando ganó el Western & Southern Open en las afueras de Cincinnati en agosto.He took home two55.twotwo0 dollars (twotwotwo.8two0 euros) for the victory, while the male champion of the same tournament, Alexander Zverev, took 654.815 (571.680 euros).
It is possible thatNelly Korda has finished a place behindJin Young Ko on the list of LPGA metallic awards and in the race for the player of the year, but her year was perhaps even more impressive, since she captured her first important titleIn the Women'sPGA championship in June, he won the Olympic gold in August and ended two0two1 as the best classified female golfer.The two3 -year -old, recently included in the Forbes two0twotwo 30 Under 30 list in the sports category, has more than ten sponsors, including Hanwha Q Cells, a solar cell manufacturer, and UKG, a technology company focused on theWork Force Management.
CandaceParker has just left a race for the WNBA championship with Chicago Sky, but with the wages of the league limited around two00.000 dollars (174.610 euros), he earns almost all his money with sponsorships, associating with brands such as Adidas, Band-Aid, Capital One and Carmax.In fact, his annual salary outside the court is more than double his total salary as a player during his 14 years in the WNBA.The 35 -year -old player became the first woman to appear on the cover of an NBA twoK video game and was one of the star athletes who invested in the exchange of Alt chromos in a financing round announced in November.Parker also has a lucrative contract as an NBA analyst for Turner Sports, extended last year.
