{"id":12592,"date":"2016-06-16T12:16:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T12:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=12592"},"modified":"2016-06-16T12:16:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T12:16:19","slug":"worlds-100-highest-paid-athletes-list-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/worlds-100-highest-paid-athletes-list-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s 100 Highest-Paid Athletes list-2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Question: Forbes on 8 June 2016 released the list of 2016 World&#8217;s 100 Highest-Paid Athletes. The list has been topped by \u2013<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Floyd Mayweather<br \/>\n(b) Cristiano Ronaldo<br \/>\n(c) Lionel Messi<br \/>\n(d) Maria sarapova<br \/>\n<strong>Ans:(b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>On 8 June 2016;The famous American magazine Forbes released the list of 2016-World&#8217;s 100 Highest-Paid Athletes.<\/li>\n<li>The list has been topped by soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal with earnings of 88 million US dollars.<\/li>\n<li>Last year(2015) Floyd Mayweather has topped the list with 300 million US dollars of earnigs, this year he is placed at 16th position with the earnings of 44 million US dollars.<\/li>\n<li>Other soccer superstar Lionel Messi ranks No. 2 with earnings of 81.4 million US dollars.<\/li>\n<li>The basketball player, LeBron James ranks third with total earnings of $77.2 million and Roger Federer is the top-earning athlete in an individual sport with 67.8 million US dollars, ranks fourth followed by Basket ball player Kevin Durant with 56.2 million US dollars.<\/li>\n<li>Novak Djokovic lands in the top 10 for the first time at No. 6 with 55.8 million US dollars over the past 12 months.<\/li>\n<li>This year, the list does not include any Indian player, last year Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was included in the list.<\/li>\n<li>Serena Williams (No. 40) of America and Maria Sharapova (No. 88) of Russia are the only two women to make the cut in the list for the second straight year with 40th and 88th rank respectively in the list.<\/li>\n<li>This list has been published since 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbespr\/2016\/06\/08\/forbes-releases-the-worlds-highest-paid-athletes-list-2016\/#1e3c7ddf1bb9\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbespr\/2016\/06\/08\/forbes-releases-the-worlds-highest-paid-athletes-list-2016\/#1e3c7ddf1bb9<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/athletes\/#7c135d0d6e34\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/athletes\/#7c135d0d6e34<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Forbes on 8 June 2016 released the list of 2016 World&#8217;s 100 Highest-Paid Athletes. The list has been topped by \u2013 (a) Floyd Mayweather (b) Cristiano Ronaldo (c) Lionel Messi (d) Maria sarapova Ans:(b) Related facts: On 8 June 2016;The famous American magazine Forbes released the list of 2016-World&#8217;s 100 Highest-Paid Athletes. The list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}