Cristiano Ronaldo tops the list of highest paid athletes of 2024. Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry was second in the list. No female athletes or Indians featured in top 100. Top 100 highest earning athletes made $6.2 billion in total income in 2024. They earned $4.8 billion in salary and prize money and $1.4 billion from their endorsements away from the field. The data suggested that male athletes dominated the sporting industry, and mentioned rising tennis star Coco Gauff as the highest-earning female athlete, however, she was out of the top 100 in the data compiled by Sportico. Click here to read the full list of top 10 highest-paid athletes in the world of 2024 and to see the full data from Sportico, click here for the complete list of the world’s top 100 highest- Paid Athletes in 2024 and the top 10 names to feature in top 10 in the next year’s list of 2024 Olympics and Paralympic Games. The top 10 earners in 2024: Cristiano Ronaldo (Football): $260m Stephen Curry (Basketball): $153.8m Tyson Fury (Boxing): $147m Lionel Messi ( football): $135m LeBron James (basketball): $133.2m Neymar (football) Oleksandr Usyk (Boxed): $122m Karim Benzema (Football) Kylian Mbappe (football): $110m John Rahm (Golf): $105.8million.
