{"id":7638,"date":"2024-08-13T13:06:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T13:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=7638"},"modified":"2024-08-13T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T13:06:08","slug":"eye-watering-amount-of-money-imane-khelif-will-earn-for-winning-olympic-gold-after-gender-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=7638","title":{"rendered":"Eye-watering amount of money Imane Khelif will earn for winning Olympic gold after gender controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Khelif took the gold in the women\u2019s welterweight division at the Olympics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After her stunning victory claiming the gold medal Imane Khelif is set to claim a large cash reward for her win.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Algerian boxer<\/a> took the gold in the women\u2019s welterweight contest, beating China\u2019s<\/a> Yang Liu by a unanimous decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imane Khelif and Yang Liu celebrate the final of the women\u2019s welterweight division. (Maja Hitij\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her win made her only the second person in Algeria\u2019s\u00a0Olympic\u00a0history to claim a gold medal at the games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khelif\u2019s\u00a0participation in the Olympics was at the\u00a0centre of controversy\u00a0after it emerged that she had failed an unspecified \u2018gender eligibility test\u2019 carried out by the discredited International Boxing Association (IBA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IBA was dropped by the International Olympic Commission (IOC) amid allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These centred around the IBA\u2019s president Umar Kremlev who has ties to Vladimir Putin, as well as the IBA\u2019s main sponsor being the Russian state-owned energy company Gazprom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But despite a tsunami of misinformation and abuse being directed at Khelif online she has gone on to win the gold medal in her category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Khelif took the gold medal. (Richard Pelham\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Believe it or not Olympians aren\u2019t actually guaranteed a cash prize if they win a medal, though obviously the medal itself does have financial value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However\u00a0many countries have awards systems in place\u00a0where medallists are granted a cash prize by their home country\u2019s Olympic organisation, rather than by the Olympics itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it does vary a lot from country to country, and from sport to sport as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While one athlete winning the gold might take home $15,000, other countries can see athletes taking home as much $750,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that $15,000 is to be sniffed at, but with $750,000 you\u2019re effectively set for life if you\u2019re smart about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what Khelif\u2019s prize money?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Khelif celebrates her victory. (Maja Hitij\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After weeks of struggle, Khelif\u2019s gold medal means that she will take home a cash prize of just over $100,000, around $100,209 to be precise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of this, she will be able to keep half with the other half being divided up between her coach and the Algerian boxing federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the silver medal, that stands at just under $50,000, and will be taken home by China\u2019s Yang Liu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking after her gold medal victory,\u00a0Khelif hit back at the relentless abuse\u00a0she has been subjected to online and said it only made her victory sweeter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She told reporters: \u201cI\u2019m a woman like any other woman. I was born a woman, I lived a woman, I competed as a woman, there\u2019s no doubt about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[Detractors] are enemies of success, that is what I call them. And that also gives my success a special taste because of these attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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