Ko Jin-young "7.4 Billion Won Income, 18th Place"... Osaka "66.5 Billion Won, 1st Place"

Forbes Announces 2022 Female Athlete Earnings
Williams 2nd, Lee Minji 10th, Lydia Ko 14th, Jeon Inzi Tied 19th

[Asia Economy Reporter No Woo-rae] '7.4 billion won.'

Ko Jin-young (photo), ranked 4th in the women's golf world rankings, earned this amount this year. According to the 2022 women's sports athlete earnings ranking announced by the U.S. economic magazine Forbes on the 22nd (local time), Ko Jin-young earned 5.8 million dollars (7.44 billion won). She is the highest-ranked Korean female athlete and ranks 18th among all athletes across all sports. Last year, she was 6th on this list with 7.5 million dollars.

Tennis players also showed strong performance this year. Seven of the 'Top 10' were tennis players. Naomi Osaka (Japan) maintained her No. 1 position for the fourth consecutive year with earnings of 51.1 million dollars (65.56 billion won). Serena Williams (USA), who retired last September, ranked 2nd (41.3 million dollars), followed by skier Gu Ailing (China) 3rd (20.1 million dollars), Emma Raducanu (UK) 4th (18.7 million dollars), and tennis world No. 1 Iga Swiatek (Poland) 5th (14.9 million dollars).

Among golf players, US Women's Open champion Minjee Lee (Australia) ranked 10th (7.3 million dollars), world No. 1 Lydia Ko (New Zealand) 14th (6.9 million dollars), Lexi Thompson (USA) 17th (5.9 million dollars), KPMG Women's PGA Championship winner Jeon In-ji tied for 19th (5.7 million dollars), and Nelly Korda (USA) and Brooke Henderson (Canada) tied for 22nd (5.4 million dollars).

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