Havana/Cuban sprinter Roxana Gómez came in seventh place in the final of the 400 meter dash at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship, held in Budapest. “I thought it was going to be a little better, but I’m grateful to make it to the final,” she told Deporcuba. The athlete born in Cienfuegos stopped the clock at 50.34 seconds and for her position in the event was awarded a prize of $12,000 of the $10 million that the event will distribute among its competitors.
“The Cuban is an athlete who on more than one occasion in the past has expressed her interest in climbing step by step to her qualitative ceiling, which represents a normal virtue,” highlighted the specialized media. Full Swing.
The queen of the 400 meters is the Dominican Marileidy Paulino with 49.07 seconds, followed by the Norwegian Henriette Jaeger (49.28 seconds) and the Jamaican Nickisha Pryce (49.56 seconds).
“The way in which the $12,000 is subsequently managed or distributed may respond to different regulations and agreements related to the athlete, the federation and her work team,” he stressed on Facebook. Cuba on the way to Los Angeles 2028.
The regime “applies a 4% tax on personal income for individual and collective awards achieved in international and national competitions”
The regimea 4% tax applies on personal income from individual and collective prizes achieved in international and national competitions.” Gómez keeps $9,120, after the tax discount ($480), 15% for the coach ($1,800) and 5% for specialists and medical support staff ($600).
Gómez stood out in the Ultimate Championship, a championship that brings together the elite of athletics: the Olympic champions of Paris 2024, the world champions of Tokyo 2025 and the winners of the 2026 Diamond League Final. The remaining places were completed in accordance with the ranking world.
The tournament is promoted by the British Sebastian Coe, president of World Athletics, with the aim of revolutionizing athletics, hence the winners in each discipline are guaranteed a purse of 150,000, twice what the Olympic champions in Paris 2024 or world champions in Tokyo 2025, five times more than the winners in the Diamond League finals.
“He is the oldest prize money that has existed in athletics,” said Sebastian Coe. “For me, bonuses are the third pillar, that no one talks about, regarding the well-being of athletes. There is physical health and mental health, but nothing can exist without financial stability.”
“In a discipline like ours, in which money is not earned, this competition is important,” commented French hammer thrower Yann Chaussinand, second best this year, in mid-August.
