2013 Olympia - Prize Money Breakdown - One Million Dollars!

[musclecenter]

2013 Mr. Olympia Prize Money Breakdown same as 2012 :
 
 1st $250,000
 2nd $100,000
 3rd $75,000
 4th $50,000
 5th $40,000
 6th $30,000
 7th $18,000
 8th $17,000
 9th $16,000
 10th $14,000
 11th $4,000
 12th $4,000
 13th $4,000
 14th $4,000
 15th $4,000
 16th $2,000
 17th $2,000
 18th $2,000
 19th $2,000
 20th $2,000
 21st $2,000
 22nd $2,000
 23rd $2,000
 24th $2,000
 25th $2,000
 TOTAL $650,000

[Ron]

WOW IFBB living in the dark ages.  I'm surprised they don't make the women competitors cook dinner for the judges too.  And the women are far superior as athletes to the men.

Perhaps you can become a UFC fighter, win a main bout, and only get $40,000 for it while the UFC gets $40 million.     

You cannot compare bodybuilding with sports that have Pay Per View rights, television rights and a ton of commercial endorsements. Amazing that some of you do.  Bodybuilding is thriving in spite of none of this, via a fan base that is bringing in lots of people, an expo, and a place where the best of the best can compete at for a lot more money than anywhere else.  With no mainstream media either. Kudos to them.  The expo lets the supplement companies come all together for many of us that enjoy it and check out the latest products too.

Not a Trade Mark, anyone can use IFBB & run his contest & this is reality

Your reality is one that has never been on the end of a lawsuit, but a tremendous amount of talk. 

[usmcdevildoc]

DOC got the very last VIP ticket. Shit yea bros!

DOC
Lift, fuck, make money

[Ron]

Update 2013-08-06

OLYMPIA WEEKEND: ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN PRIZE MONEY!

Joe Weider’s Olympia Fitness and Performance Weekend has reached a milestone—correction, a million dollar milestone. Yes, bodybuilding’s biggest weekend has hit the $1,000,000 mark, making Olympia Weekend’s total prize money figure the richest in the industry—by a country mile! Check out the increases in total prize money per division: Mr. Olympia has jumped from $650,000 to $675,000; the Olympia 212 Showdown has grown from $40,000 to $65,000; and the inaugural Olympia Men’s and Women’s Physique Showdowns kick in $20,000 a piece, and those figures combined with the other divisions add up to one million dollars in total prize money.
              
For years, the goal was to reach one million dollars by the 50th anniversary of Olympia Weekend, which would have been 2014. But thanks to the hard work and combined efforts of American Media Inc. and its CEO and chairman David J. Pecker, the IFBB Professional League and its president Jim Manion, and title sponsor Ultimate Nutrition, presenting sponsor Bodybuilding.com, and other valued sponsors, Joe and Ben Weider’s lifelong dream has become reality—ahead of schedule. And let's not forget the folks who really made this possible, the fans.

“Without the fans none of this would have happened,” Manion said. “Whether you’re a fan who attends year after year, a fan who can only make a special trip once in a while, or a first-time fan, it’s because of your support of the event and the sport, that Olympia Weekend has been getting bigger every year and I know that with all the exciting things happening in the industry, it will continue growing in the coming years. The sky’s the limit.”

Ultimate Nutrition presents the 2013 IFBB Joe Weider’s Olympia Fitness and Performance Weekend, brought to you by Bodybuilding.com, September 26-29 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Get your tickets now at www.mrolympia.com.

TOTAL PRIZE MONEY BREAKDOWN

Mr. Olympia: $675,000
212 Showdown: $65,000
Ms. Olympia: $60,000
Fitness Olympia: $60,000
Figure Olympia: $60,000
Bikini Olympia: $40,000
Men’s Physique Showdown: $20,000
Women’s Physique Showdown: $20,000

[Nicademus]

I was able to attend my first Olympia weekend two years ago while I was in Vegas for a Mayweather fight.  I gotta say that shit was pretty fuckn cool. 

[booty]

Still not nearly enough money to throw your health away and almost die trying to reach peak physique and conditioning. The drugs are too out of control these days. Bodybuilders don't live long ,look at nasser he seemed somewhat healthy and just dies one day. Sure  some bodybuilders live a long life but they all have some kind of health problem,even Arnold has a bad heart.
Bodybuilding is the most hardcore sport I have ever tried. There was no way I could get to pro level conditioning and the amount it would cost just to get the gains I did get when I was using was a insane amount of money. I could of won some small shows that offered just exposure but winning a junior nationals was not going to happen , some of those guys are using more then the pros and they shoot all sorts of bad quality chinese HGH,sketchy UGL lab gear,abuse insulin.

 I have played alot of sports basketball,baseball,football, and bodybuilding was the hardest to me because if you don;t have the genetics you are screwed to start with no matter how much gear and HGH and synthol you use. You might get to a high level if you megadose but you are not going to look as good as the guys with the good genetics. Not rying to sound racist but african americans seem to have it easier and are just naturally gifted,that goes for boydbuilding to bsketball to football even baseball. There are guys with shit genetics who have gone pro like jason arntz, chris cook, Matt Duvall but where did thee guys ever go in the sport? nowhere! waste of health and money. you have to weigh the risk vs reward a million dollars for being the best bodybuilder in the whole world is a slap in the face-IMO. These guys work harder then any basketball player,football player, baseball player. These pro bodybuilders need salarys.

Top prize for mr. Olympia the worlds best bodybuilder should be at least 5-10 million.

Yes it should be more money really.  But I guess its getting there...slowly

[trapz101]

no.1 title in the world and prize money not more than 250k

what a 'sport'