Prize money in sport: In what years were men and women paid equal?
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A 2021 BBC Sport study into prize money has found more than 90% of sports pay sportsmen and sportswomen equally at a major championship or event.
This has increased from 70% of sports when the research was first carried out in 2014.
Here is a timeline of events from the 1950s to the current day which have parity in prize money and we have listed the earliest recorded event in each sport.
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