Each athletics gold medalists at the 33rd Olympic Games in Paris,France is set to get a reward of ksh 6.5 million (50,000)USD.
This was announced today by World Athletics which has set aside a total prize kitty of ksh 312.3 million equivalent to USD 2.4 million, to be distributed among all gold medalists across the 48 athletics events starting with this summer games.
Similar amount will be rewarded to relay teams which will win gold medals.
It will be the 1st time that a gold medalist in athletics at the quadrennial games will get prize money.