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3 unusual facts about Prize money


Prize

Prize money, monetary award that is given to someone after they have won a competition.

Prize money

One eighth was divided among the wardroom warrant officers (surgeon, purser, and chaplain), standing warrant officers (carpenter, boatswain, and gunner), lieutenant of marines, and the master's mates.

Speedway Super Prix

The Super Prix was an event introduced by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM), and Speedway Grand Prix organsisers, Benfield Sports International, to the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix series offering an additional prize fund of US$200,000 to the Grand Prix riders.


Anne Elliot

When Captain Wentworth, now grown rich from prize money, returns from the Napoleonic Wars to visit the neighborhood, Anne is at first pained; however, his presence gradually sets her life in motion again.

James Marriott

The outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793 and the corresponding increase in naval activity greatly strained Marriott's work load, although he produced some notable decisions, particularly in a 1794 case in which Captain Francis Laforey of HMS Carysfort sued the Admiralty over the prize money to be awarded for his capture of the French frigate Castor at the Frigate action of 29 May 1794.


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2003 Mr. Olympia

For the fifth year in a row, the total prize money for the Mr. Olympia weekend was increased, reaching a level of $404,000 with the winner taking home $110,000 and a Cadillac Escalade provided by Pinnacle Supplements.

2011 Copa Bionaire

The 2011 edition was one of the biggest ITF Circuit Tournaments of the year with US$100,000 in prize money.

2013 Audi Melbourne Pro Tennis Classic

It is the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money.

2013 Beijing International Challenger

It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, both offering a total of $75,000 in prize money.

2013 Boyd Tinsley Women's Clay Court Classic

It was the twelfth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money.

2013 Cooper Challenger

It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money.

2013 Dothan Pro Tennis Classic

It was the thirteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money.

2013 Fergana Challenger

It was the 14th edition of the tournament for men which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour, offering $50,000 in prize money, and the third edition of the event for women on the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering $25,000 in prize money.

2013 Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championships

It was the 18th edition for men and the 16th edition for women of the tournament and was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit and the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour, offering prize money of $50,000 each for the men's and women's events.

2013 IPP Open and the Orto-Lääkärit Open

It was the 13th edition of the men's tournament which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour, offering a total of €42,500 in prize money, and sixth edition of the women's tournament, which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $10,000 in prize money.

2013 ITS Cup

It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $100,000 in prize money.

2013 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open

It was the ninth edition for men and the eleventh edition for women of the tournament and was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit and the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour, offering a total prize money of $100,000 each for the men's and women's events.

2013 Open 88 Contrexéville

It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money.

2013 Open GDF Suez de Biarritz

It was the eleventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $100,000 in prize money.

2013 Open GDF Suez de Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes

It was the sixteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $100,000 in prize money.

2013 Open Saint-Gaudens Midi-Pyrénées

It was the tenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money.

2013 São Paulo Challenger de Tênis

It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering $50,000 in prize money for the men's event and $10,000 for the women's event.

2013 Save Cup

It was the eleventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money.

2013 Sparta Prague Open

It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $100,000 in prize money.

2013 The Oaks Club Challenger

It is the fifth edition of the tournament which is part of the 2013 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money.

Alon Tal

Tal won the Charles Bronfman Prize for young humanitarian leadership in 2006 and used the prize money to establish the Tal Fund, which supports grassroots Israeli environmental activism.

Arvind Kejriwal

Together with Manish Sisodia and Abhinandan Sekhri, Kejriwal established the Public Cause Research Foundation in December 2006, donating the prize money he had received from the Ramon Magsaysay Award as a seed fund.

Camille Coduri

She won the game, beating Noel Clarke (Mickey Smith) in the final round, splitting the prize money of £16,550 evenly between multiple sclerosis and children who are carers.

Casino Royale Goa

The World Gaming Festival will encompass individual tournaments for different Casino games like Blackjack, Roulette, Texas Hold'em Poker, Indian Flush and Baccarat and will feature some of the best players battling it out for the prize money worth Rupees 5 Crores.

Clara Copley

Other Irish boxers who took to prize-money matches in Copley's ring include Bantamweight Ed Bunty Doran, who was often pitted against Monaghan in the professional ring and later became an Irish champion; Welterweight Tommy Armour who later knocked out British Welterweight Champion Eric Boon; and Flyweight Jimmy Warnock, one of the first from Copley's rings to make money professionally.

Corky Carroll

Wins first place at the Tom Morey Nose Riding Invitational – The first contest ever to pay prize money.

Cranwell CLA.2

No more CLA.2s were built, but the prize money and the compensation helped to fund the CLA club's next aircraft, the Cranwell CLA.3.

Dallas Spirit

Dallas Spirit was built on credit with the promise of the Swallow Airplane Company receiving some of the prize money.

David Hemery

As a recently retired athlete, Hemery was free to participate in the professional Superstars contests and keep any prize money he won - unlike many other competitors (like Kjell Isaksson or Andy Ripley).

Deno Andrews

The tournament paid out US$1,000,000 in total prize money, with a prize of $200,000 for the first place finisher, Efren Reyes.

Formula racing

However, with the introduction of road courses in 2005 and a boost in prize money in 2006, drivers like Marco Andretti and Phil Giebler were attracted to compete in the Indy Lights championships part-time, expanding the field to twenty or more cars in every cars in 2007.

Gary Buckland

The Barry Hearn promoted tournament pitched 8 fighters in a knock out style competition over one evening with the winner walking away with prize money of £32,000.

Gossamer Condor

The Kremer prize had been set up in 1959 by Henry Kremer, a British industrialist, and offered £50,000 in prize money to the first group that could fly a human-powered aircraft over a figure-eight course covering a total of a mile (1.6 kilometers).

Henry Wanyoike

After winning his first gold medal in Sydney, Australia in 2000 at the Paralympic games, he has bought knitting machines through prize money and charitable donations from such international personalities as Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Hornblower and the Hotspur

When Admiral William Cornwallis tries to put him in a position where he can make easy prize money by capturing a large shipment of Spanish gold, he instead takes on a stronger enemy frigate sent to warn the convoy and keeps it from accomplishing its mission.

Howie Gordon

Howie eventually had to choose between two friendship members in terms of who won the prize money, and he voted for Maggie, telling her of his regret that he had to choose between America's two most hated houseguests, instead of their two favourites - his friends Janelle Pierzina and Kaysar Ridha.

International Professional Surfers

Whilst in Rarick's kitchen Peter Townend and Ian Cairns and Rarick talked Hemmings into switching from a prize money to points-per-placing ranking system.

Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy

A Kyoto laureate is awarded a gold medal, a diploma, and a prize money of 50 million yen (US$530,000 or €413,000 as of March 2013), making it one of the richest literary prizes in the world.

Leading broodmare sire in North America

This is determined by the amount of prize money won during the year by racehorses which were foaled by a daughter of the sire.

Major professional tennis tournaments before the Open Era

The Championships at Wimbledon, the US Championships, the French Championships, and the Australian Championships were typically the top events, where amateur players could compete for the title, albeit without prize money.

Mark Watring

On May 27, 2002 Watring won the $35,000 Lexus of Glendale Memorial Grand Prix prize money, at the Memorial Day Classic Horse Show aboard his horse "Sapphire".

Mathlete

Administered by the Mathematical Association of America, students compete as individuals and as teams (as chosen by their Institution) for scholarships and team prize money.

Mubadala World Tennis Championship

The six-players, three-days exhibition, with a winner-takes-all prize money of 250,000US$, preceded by weeks of tennis-themed activities in the region, including an amateur Community Cup tournament in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, was created to take place early in the season, before the start of the actual tour events, as a warm-up exhibition for the top players, similar to the AAMI Classic in Melbourne.

News of the World Championship

One of the leading post-war professional tournaments, the event was sponsored by the Sunday newspaper News of the World and carried a £1,500 prize money.

Paul Harney

As his competitive playing days were winding down, Harney used his prize money to open his own course in East Falmouth, Massachusetts, which he owned until his death.

Slotsholmen

There is both a competition for amateurs who swim in the afternoon and a FINA 10 km Marathon Swimming World Cup event with US$11,000 in prize money that takes place in the morning.

Unan1mous

Nine strangers are locked in a bunker and told they cannot leave until they unanimously choose to award one of them the grand prize money.