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Top earners: Australia’s richest athletes

We’ve spent months researching the salaries, prizemoney and sponsorship returns of Australia’s highest-paid athletes to put together a five-part series on sport’s biggest earners.

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Top earners: Sam Kerr, Alexander Volkanovski and Cameron Green.
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Australian sport’s top earners: Counting down from 50 to 26

These are the salaries, prizemoney and sponsorship returns of Australia’s highest-paid athletes. In part one of our series, we count down from numbers 50 to 26.

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Top earners: Josh Giddey, Liam Hendriks and Minjee Lee.
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Australian sport’s top earners: Counting down from 25 to one

These are the salaries, prizemoney and sponsorship returns of Australia’s highest-paid athletes. In part two of our series, we count down from 25 to one.

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Top earners: Tom Lynch, Isaac Heeney and Patrick Cripps.
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Top earners: The 20 AFL players who rake in the most money

After revealing the 50 highest-earning Australian athletes earlier this week, where no Australian rules footballers made the list, we turn our attention to the AFL.

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Top earners: Molly Picklum, Jessica Fox and Annabel Sutherland.
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Kerr and Fowler are big names. But they’re not the richest female Aussie athletes

There are big names and some lesser-knowns in our list of the top 20 highest-paid Australian women athletes, based on salaries, prizemoney and sponsorship returns.

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Top earners: Alex Condon, Jett Lawrence and Travis Bazzana.
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Jett used to share a sandwich with his family to save money. Now he’s one of Australia’s richest athletes

In the fifth and final part of our series on the biggest Australian earners in sport, we look at the 23-and-under category, including motocross superstar Jett Lawrence, whose family gambled it all on him and his brother making it big – and won.

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