Tokyo Olympic gold medal. yunhap news
Haidiline Dias (30) of the Philippines won the gold medal in the women’s 55kg class A group event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. It was the first Olympic gold medal in the history of the Philippines. A splendid achievement for the first time in 97 years since the first appearance in 1924. Dias previously won the silver medal at Rio 2016. Dias, who rose to prominence as an Olympic hero after a poor childhood, receives a hefty bounty. The Philippine government and several companies have promised Dias a 33 million pesos (75661 million won) bounty and a house. Money is not everything, but the size of the bounty cannot be ignored for a stable life in the future. According to a report by Kyodo News, Japan has set 5 million yen (52.5 million won) for gold medal, 2 million yen (21 million won) for silver medal, and 1 million yen (10.51 million won) for bronze medal as prize money for this Olympics. If baseball players win a gold medal, they will receive an additional reward of 5 million yen per individual from the National Baseball Organization (NPB). The countries with the largest awards for medalists are Indonesia and Singapore. Indonesia will give 746,000 dollars (861 million won, as of 2019) for gold medals. The silver medal was $378,000 (436 million won) and the bronze medal was $188,000 (217 million won). At the 2016 Rio Olympics, a mixed badminton pair (Lilyana Natsir-Tontowi Ahmad) won a gold medal and received a bounty, but there is no ‘golden’ news in Tokyo yet. Singapore also has a lot of gold medal rewards. It is known that Joseph Schooling, who won his country’s first Olympic gold medal (swimming 100m butterfly) at the Rio Games, received over $1 million in bonuses from the government at the time. Countries that are so-called Olympic sports powerhouses tend to pay rather salty rewards. At the Rio Games, the United States offered $37,500 gold (43.29 million won), silver $22,500 (25.97 million won), and bronze $15,000 (17.31 million won) in prize money. In Australia, the gold medal reward ($15,100) is about $100 more than the bronze medal bonus in the United States. In Canada, the gold medal reward is about 22,000 dollars (25.4 million won). Russia usually gives medalists a bonus of $26,000 to $61,000, but President Vladimir Putin also gave away expensive luxury cars as a gift. Russia is participating in the Tokyo Games with the slogan ‘ROC’ due to the doping scandal. Meanwhile, Korea has set up 63 million won in gold, 35 million won in silver, and 25 million won in bronze as prize money for this tournament. Players participating in the team event will receive 75% of the amount received by the individual players. In other words, the soccer and baseball teams receive 47.25 million won if they win a gold medal. Separately, there is a separate reward for each federation and organization. The Baseball Organization (KBO), like the Japanese organization, offered a 1 billion won gold medal reward. By Kim Yang-hee, staff reporter [email protected]
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