{"id":22821,"date":"2020-05-30T20:18:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T14:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/?p=22821"},"modified":"2020-05-30T20:18:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T14:48:51","slug":"virat-kohli-forbes-top-100-highest-paid-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/virat-kohli-forbes-top-100-highest-paid-athlete\/","title":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli in Forbes List of top 100 highest-paid athletes second time in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the modern-day cricketing greats and Indian skipper <a class=\"rank-math-link rank-math-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/why-virat-kohli-is-the-greatest-chaser-in-odi-history\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Virat Kohli<\/span> <\/a>featured in the list of Forbes Magazine\u2019s top 100 highest-paid athletes of 2020. According to Forbes, Kohli had estimated total earnings of $26 million ($24m from endorsements and $2m from salary\/winnings).<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The batting dynamo is the only Indian athlete to featured in this year\u2019s list ranked at 66, making a jump of over 30 places since he was ranked last in the 100 list, reported <em>Hindustan Times.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Factors of the Forbes calculation<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The list is tabulated by calculating the&nbsp;athletes\u2019 revenue, including prize money, salaries, contract bonuses, endorsements, royalties, and appearance fees from June 1, 2019, until June 1, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Notably, this is the second instance in a row when Virat Kohli has been included in the list. With an estimated earning of $25 million Virat was positioned 100th in 2019 list.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Tennis legend Roger Federer tops the list<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The 100 highest paid athletes\u2019 of 2020 list which is put forward by Forbes Magazine was topped by the Swiss Star Roger Federer with an estimated $106.3 million earned over the period.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka is\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/naomi-osaka-becomes-highest-paid-woman-athlete\/\" class=\"rank-math-link\">highest paid female athlete<\/a> in the list with $37.4 million making an overall 29th position in the top 100 list.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-text-align-center has-very-light-gray-background-color\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kyrosports\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"rank-math-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow us on Facebook for more sports news &amp; updates<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the modern-day cricketing greats and Indian skipper Virat Kohli featured in the list of Forbes Magazine\u2019s top 100 highest-paid athletes of 2020. According to Forbes, Kohli had estimated total earnings of $26 million ($24m from endorsements and $2m from salary\/winnings). The batting dynamo is the only Indian athlete to featured in this year\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":22871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,602,4845],"tags":[5227,5228,5229,5230,4514,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}