3⃣ Eileen Gu 4⃣ Emma Raducanu 5⃣ Iga Swiatek The world’s highest-paid female athletes of 2022 💰
Most read in Sportanother oneConor McGregor reacts to being named ‘most famous person’ in Ireland’s historystrangeIndian cricket star Rishabh Pant hospitalised after horrific car crashComing home in No.1 spot is Naomi Osaka, the 25-year-old American whose financial results echo Raducanu’s… just multiplied.She went out in the first round of both US Open and French Open, got to third round in the Australian Open and was absent for Wimbledon.
The tennis legend and 23-time Grand Slam champion appeared to indicate she was retiring from the sport earlier this year, but has since claimed that was not the case and her chances of returning to competitive tennis are ‘very high’. The woman in third, one place above Raducanu, will be a surprise to many, with Chinese freestyle skiing star Eileen Gu raking in more than £16m [$20m] in 2022.Gu is a huge star in America and her mother’s homeland China – who she represents on the ski slopesBorn and raised in San Francisco but representing his mother’s homeland, Gu rose to fame in the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, winning two gold medals and a silver.
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