Naomi Osaka is the Highest Paid Woman Athlete in 2022 (Again!)
Here are the top-paid women athletes from around the world for the 2022 calendar year, according to the figures published by Forbes Magazine. Again this year the highest paid is tennis player Naomi Osaka. Osaka and Serena Williams were also the only females in the top-50 highest-paid athletes for 2022, ranking 19th and 31st respectively.
See more lists of the World's Highest Paid Women Athletes.
| Name | Country | Sport | earnings (US$ million) |
previous year rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naomi Osaka | Japan | Tennis | 51.1 | 1 |
| 2 | Serena Williams | USA | Tennis | 41.3 | 2 |
| 3 | Eileen Gu | USA | Skiing | 20.1 | >10 |
| 4 | Emma Raducanu | UK | Tennis | 18.7 | >10 |
| 5 | Iga Świątek | Poland | Tennis | 14.9 | >10 |
| 6 | Venus Williams | USA | Tennis | 12.1 | 3 |
| 7 | Coco Gauff | USA | Tennis | 11.1 | >10 |
| 8 | Simone Biles | USA | Gymnastics | 10.0 | 4 |
| 9 | Jessica Pegula | USA | Tennis | 7.6 | >10 |
| 10 | Minjee Lee | Australia | Golf | 7.3 | >10 |
Notes
- The earnings totals (in US dollars) are derived from salaries, bonuses, prize money, appearance fees, licensing and endorsement income in the 2022 calendar year. Taxes or agents' fees are not factored into the figures.
Serena Williams is smashing it in the eranings stakesSource
- This top female athlete earners list was first published on the Forbes.com website in December 2022.
Related Pages
- Other lists of the World's Highest Paid Women Athletes
- The highest paid athletes (male and female) for 2022
- Forbes list of the World's Best Paid Athletes
- Women in Sport
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