The Brazilian Rebeca Andrade, only 22 years old, won the first olympic medal at fitness female for the country. The young woman also received a “hefty sum” from the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB).
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For individual awards, such as those in gymnastics and skateboarding, the COB values are:
It is worth noting that the Brazilian award is higher than that of other foreign athletes. For example, the US committee pays $22,500 for a silver medal.
While for the gold medal, US representatives earn US$ 35,500. In the conversion to real, it would be the same as R$ 190.6 thousand. For bronze medals, the amount of US$ 15 thousand (or R$ 76.2 thousand) is paid.
In the case of sports played in a group, the COB values are even higher. However, the money ends up being divided among all team members.
For up to six athletes:
For sports played between teams with more than six athletes (example: indoor volleyball and soccer):
The award received by Rebeca was greater than the one paid in 2016, at the Olympic Games in Brazil. At the time, COB paid BRL 35,000 to athletes, regardless of the medal won.
In 2016, Brazil ranked 13th overall among all countries. There were 19 medals won (7 gold, 6 silver and 6 bronze). With that, COB disbursed R$ 665 thousand in total.
Since 2001, the Law establishes that 2% of lottery proceeds must go to COB and the Brazilian Paralympic Committee.
In 2020 alone, Caixa transferred R$ 122.251 million in this way. In addition, COB also counts on sponsorship and transfers from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was R$ 35,147 million last year alone.
In this way, it is possible to remunerate the athletes, many of whom still do not have sponsors. If you think about all the effort involved and the short career time, the money is justified for the payment.
