The relationship between financial incentives for athletes and Brazilian sports results in the pan American games

The aim of this study was to analyze the relation of financial subsidies on obtaining better sport results. The selection of data was accomplished by researching Brazilian athletes who competed in the Pan-American Games of Lima 2019. This study investigated the relationship between participation in the Brazilian Athlete Grant Program and medal achievement at the 2019 Lima Pan-American Games, using binomial logistic regression to analyze factors like gender, grant category, and sport type. Data on 481 Brazilian athletes, distributed across 40 different sports, were collected from official sources and analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics to determine the odds ratio of winning a medal. The analysis reveals that receiving large amounts of value may be related to the improvement in sports results. The data indicate that greater investment in athletes generates better results. Compared with the value received in these years, it is possible that an athlete whose value is not high but whose value is received steadily increases his chances of obtaining a medal. In addition, gender did not significantly affect the results obtained, and athletes representing individual modalities tended to obtain more medals.