Top 5 highest paid athletes of 2013

The 'Top 5 highest paid athletes' comes with lots of surprises with many familiar sports athletes like David Beckham,Maria Sharapova,Phil Mickelson,Cristiano Ronaldo missing from our list.The list compromises of 2 basketball players,a boxer,a tennis player and a golfer(who has returned to the top after a bit of hiatus).So without further delay,here is our list of 'Top 5 highest paid athletes in 2013':

Highest paid athletes in 2013

1.Tiger Woods

The golfer had a rough patch for sometime after his breakout with his wife and other controversies with women and due to which he also had a bad time with his sponsors and lost many endorsement brands.But in 2013,Tiger Woods has had a comeback in our list of 'Highest Paid Athletes' with a bang and is in top position with an annual earning of about 80 million dollars.

2.Roger Federer

One of the greatest and most popular tennis star,Federer is no.2 in our list of 'Highest paid athletes in 2013' with an annual salary worth around 70 million dollars.And 80% of his 70 million comes from endorsements with match prizes covering the rest 20%.

3.Kobe Bryant

The LA Lakers star who is also in the list of 'Top 5 highest NBA scorers' is 3rd in our list of 'Highest paid athletes of 2013'.The basketball sensation is supposedly earning around 65 million dollars per year just 5 million below Federer.

4.Lebron James

Another basketball player to support Kobe in our list of 'Top 5 highest paid athletes' is Lebron James.According to Forbes,Lebron James(A Miami Heat player) earns a whopping 60 million dollars playing basketball including match fees and endorsements.

5.Manny Pacquiao

The Philippines boxer is a surprise entry in our list of 'Top 5 highest paid athletes' as before 2-3 years back he was no way around the list of highest earning athletes.Due to his hard work and good boxing results in past 2-3 years he has climbed the earning leader very quickly as well he has become famous worldwide.