Pilar AlegríaMinister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, announced this Thursday the equalization of the economic award per medal for Paralympic athletes with the Olympians before the next Olympic Games in Paris.
“It is a pioneering and fair measure with high symbolic content but full of practical effects.”. We bet on values of inclusion, equal treatment, effort and merit of our athletesWhether Olympic or Paralympic,” said Pilar Alegría, in her appearance in the Senate, in the Education, Vocational Training and Sports Commission.
In the last Olympic Games, Tokyo 2020, Gold medal winners in an individual discipline pocketed 94,000 euros, silver 48,000 and bronze 30,000.
In contests For pairs, the gold costs 75,000 euros for each, the silver 37,000 euros and the bronze 25,000.while in team sports the gold is 50,000 euros for each member, 29,000 for silver and 18,000 for bronze.
In the case of The Paralympics, a gold medal is rewarded with 70,000 euros, a silver with 35,000 and the bronze with 21,000.
For team events and sports, relays, pairs and doubles, the financial prize for winning the gold medal is 35,000 euros for each of the team members; 17,500 euros for each in the case of the silver medal, and 10,500 for each member of the relay, couple, double or team that gets the bronze.
Source: La Verdad
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