BWF World Tour Finals 2024 Prize Money Breakdown: Which winner earned how much?

The BWF World Tour Finals offer the largest prize pool among all badminton tournaments.

The finals in all five categories at the BWF World Tour Finals 2024 were played on Sunday, marking an end to what has been a terrific year of exciting badminton action, which included the Paris Olympics 2024.

The tournament was unique because it featured the top eight players/pairs of the calendar year (maximum of two players/pairs from a nation) in every category. Thus, we got to see the most in-form players this year fighting it out, implying that the quality of action in almost every match was very high.

Apart from Viktor Axelsen in men’s singles, the Paris Olympics gold medalists in all sections were competing in the tournament at Hangzhou. In total, 10 out of the 15 Olympic medalists were competing in the year-end tournament.

The total prize pool for the BWF World Tour Finals 2024 was US$ 2,500,000, which is the highest among all the badminton tournaments which have taken place this year. In fact, it is nearly double the sum offered in Super 1000 tournaments such as the Malaysia Open and Indonesia Open. On this count, let us have a look at the earnings of all semifinalists in the BWF World Tour Finals 2024.

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Which player earned how much in prize money at BWF World Tour Finals 2024?

Men’s Singles

World Number #1 Shi Yu Qi won the title in the men’s singles event, thus winning a prize money of USD 200,000. Anders Antonsen, who lost to the Chinese shuttler in the final in straight games earned a sum of USD 100,000. The two other semifinalists, Chou Tien Chen and Jonathan Christie, who lost to Shi Yu Qi and Antonsen respectively each earned USD 50,000.

Women’s Singles

In an all-Chinese affair in the women’s singles final, Wang Zhi Yi edged past Han Yue in three games. Akin to men’s singles, Wang earned USD 200,000 while Han earned USD 100,000. The two losing semifinalists: Olympic champion An Se Young and the retiring Aya Ohori, who lost to Wang and Han respectively, took home USD 50,000 each.

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Men’s Doubles

The Danish pairing of Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen lifted the title by defeating Malaysians Goh Sze Fei and Nur Izzuddin in three games, which meant that former won a prize money of USD 210,000 and the latter got USD 100,000.

The two losing semifinalists consist of Indonesian pairings, namely Sabar Karyaman Gutama/Moh Reza Pahlevi Isfahani (who lost to the eventual title winners) and Fajar Alfian/Muhammad Rian Ardianto. Both pairings earned USD 50,000 each.

Women’s Doubles

Koreans Baek Ha Na and Lee So Hee put on a clinical display to defeat the Japanese pairing of Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida in the final of the women’s doubles category. Similar to the men’s event, the winners here earned a prize money of USD 210,000, while the losers got USD 100,000.

Interestingly, both the losing semifinalists were Chinese pairings, with the World Number #1 duo of Liu Sheng Shu and Tan Ning losing to the Koreans and Olympic champions Chen Qing Chen and Jia Yi Fan losing to the Japanese. Both pairs were given a sum of USD 50,000 each.

Mixed Doubles

The breakdown of prize money in the mixed doubles event too is same as that in the other two doubles sections. Olympic Champions Zheng Si Wei and Huang Ya Qiong bid farewell to the sport, with a close three games win against Malaysians Chen Tang Jie and Toh Ee Wei. As a result, the former took home a sum of USD 210,000, while the latter got USD 100,000.

Coincidentally, one semi-final was an all-Chinese affair, while the other, an all-Malaysian one. The losing semifinalists—Jiang Zhen Bang/Wei Ya Xin and Goh Soon Huat/Lai Shevon Jemie, earned USD 50,000 each.

Note: In both singles events, the players who finished third in their respective groups earned USD 27,500 each, while those who took the wooden spoon got USD 15,000. On the other hand, in the doubles section, the pairings which finished third in their respective groups (includes the only Indians in the tournament: Treesa Jolly/Gayatri Gopichand in women’s doubles) got a prize money of USD 32,500, while those who finished fourth took home USD 17,500.

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