Stoner and Reed in BRW top five
The annual list of Australia's highest earning sports stars again has our two finest motorcycle practitioners at the pointy end of the ‘grid'Casey Stoner and Chad Reed have been ranked second and fourth respectively in Business Review Weekly's annual list of Australia’s highest earning sport stars.
Stoner, now a two-time MotoGP world champion after a superb 2011, pocketed $9.5 million, still a cool $4.5 million behind the runaway No. 1, basketballer Andrew Bogut.
Behind Stoner, the motorsport theme continues with F1 driver and last year’s top earner Mark Webber ($9 million), followed by Reed ($8.5) and then cyclist Cadel Evans ($5 million), who propelled himself into local sporting folklore with his victory in the 2011 Tour de France.
Stoner’s elevation into second doesn’t come as a great surprise – he could even eclipse Bogut in future years if he continues to blaze a trail on the factory Honda – but Reed’s continued high ranking is somewhat of a surprise considering that he started up his own team at the start of 2011.
Following the top five, golf, tennis, cricket, football and soccer names feature heavily, and also a couple of women in the shape of tennis star Sam Stosur and multiple world surfing champion Stephanie Gilmore.
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