The Highest Earning Sporting Stars

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Roger Federer

$106.3m

(£76.99m / €88.70m)

The number one highest earning sport star for 2020 was tennis superstar Roger Federer. The king of tennis won his first Grand Slam almost twenty years ago and is still competing at the top of the sport despite being almost 40 years old. The Swiss superstar earned $106.3 million in the last year which means that he earns the average US salary of $34,103 in less than three hours and nets over $290,000 every single day.

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Cristiano Ronaldo

$105m

(£75.90m / €87.63m)

Coming in second and third place are the only other two athletes to earn over $100 million in the last year, two of the greatest footballers of all time, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Juventus forward Ronaldo just edged out Messi in the past year by a relatively slim margin of $1 million through the past year.

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Lionel Messi

$104m

(£75.18m / €86.80m)

While Messi’s earnings were a shade less than those of his great rival, he actually earned a higher salary in the last year than Cristiano. However, it was CR7’s endorsement deals that gave him the edge, with both still earning head spinning amounts of more than $100 million a year.

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Naomi Osaka

$37.4m

(£27.04m / €31.21m)

The highest-earning female athlete is another tennis player, Naomi Osaka. Having recently won the Australian open she has cemented her place at the top of the sport in early 2021. Last year in a season disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic she still managed to be victorious in the US Open and be ranked number one in the world. Consequently, she made huge earnings of $37.4 million which made her the 29th highest-earning athlete in the world, this equates to around $102,000 a day and means she would earn the average salary in just under nine hours.

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