The second place on the list was taken by the chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen with high salaries 1.8 million euro. The third highest earner turned out to be the world record holder and Olympic champion in the 400 meters run by Lt. Karsten Warholm with the same income as Carlsen. The second star of Norwegian athletics, Olympic champion in the 1500m and world champion in the 5000m Jakob Ingebrigtsen, received 380,000 euros. Hammer Income Eivind HenriksenOlympic silver medalist in Tokyo, amounted to 43,000 euros.

Top players like the Manchester City striker are not included in the calculations Erling Haalandbecause they live abroad, and the list of the tax office only includes people registered in Norway.

So the cyclist Alexander Kristoff it grossed 10.7 million eurobiathlete Johannes Boe – 9.7, and four-time world champion and Olympic vice-champion in Nordic combined Jarl Magnus Riiber – 3.8 million.

As the financial daily Finasavisen explains, the difference in income between Warholm and Ingebrigtsen is not due to performance, since the starting bonuses are similar, but to private sponsorship and advertising contracts, as well as activity. economic. The same is true for other disciplines.

Nergaard, although an active sailor, earns mainly from the import…of bananas, and his fortune was valued at 22 million euros. Henriksen, meanwhile, works at the port of Oslo.

An example of the richest Norwegian “businesswoman” and sportswoman is, in turn, a 14-time world champion and four-time Olympic champion, cross-country skier Therese Johaugwho ended his career in March this year. and the previous season she earned 4.4 million euros – not only from starts, but also from her own companies.

For comparison, the income of the best Norwegian ski racer, five-time Olympic champion Johannes Klaebowho lives only from sport, amounted at the same time to 1.6 million euros.

Zbigniew Kuczynski