1980 Olympics champion Evgeny Kuznetsov told how much the Soviet players got for winning the Games in Seoul and admitted that the prize money was significantly inferior to the money that was paid to other competitors.
Oh god, what are you even talking about? I think they gave us five thousand dollars to each. Later we found out from the newspapers that the Germans got $150,000 each for third place. Thirty times more than us! But we were glad to get even that much money. The main thing is we made history.
Evgeny Kuznetsov