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ATHLETICS · 2,112 ATHLETES · 119 COUNTRIES

Athletics prize money

The Diamond League has paid $53,753,250 to 2,112 athletes from 119 countries across 104 meetings, 2017 to 2026. Armand Duplantis has won more of it than anyone, $585,750.

None of it is salary. Athletics pays by finishing place on the day, so what an athlete earns is a count of results rather than a contract: $10,000 for a win at a series meeting in 2026, $30,000 at the final, and eight places paid in every discipline.

PAID IN TOTAL $53,753,250
A WIN PAYS $10,000
ATHLETES PAID 2,112
MEETINGS HELD 104
DISCIPLINES 41

The highest paid athletes in the Diamond League

Career prize money, 2017 to 2026

2,112 paid
The athletes the Diamond League has paid the most, with the seasons and wins behind each total.
# ATHLETE COUNTRY SEASONS WINS EARNED
1 Armand Duplantis 2018 to 2026 Sweden 8 34 $585,750
2 Marileidy Paulino 2021 to 2026 Dominican Republic 6 25 $420,500
3 Femke Bol 2021 to 2025 Netherlands 5 29 $412,000
4 Shericka Jackson 2017 to 2026 Jamaica 9 19 $390,750
5 Yaroslava Mahuchikh 2019 to 2026 Ukraine 7 21 $382,250
6 Noah Lyles 2018 to 2026 United States 8 18 $382,000
7 Alison dos Santos 2019 to 2026 Brazil 7 22 $380,500
8 Karsten Warholm 2017 to 2026 Norway 8 17 $356,000
9 Jakob Ingebrigtsen 2019 to 2026 Norway 6 19 $345,000
10 Dina Asher-Smith 2018 to 2026 Great Britain 8 8 $322,000
11 Emmanuel Wanyonyi 2022 to 2026 Kenya 5 15 $321,500
12 Valarie Allman 2019 to 2025 United States 6 17 $321,000
13 Julien Alfred 2023 to 2026 Saint Lucia 4 13 $316,000
14 Soufiane El Bakkali 2019 to 2026 Morocco 7 19 $305,500
15 Sam Kendricks 2017 to 2026 United States 8 8 $288,917
16 Kenny Bednarek 2019 to 2026 United States 7 13 $286,500
17 Daniel Ståhl 2017 to 2026 Sweden 9 11 $284,750
18 Faith Kipyegon 2017 to 2026 Kenya 7 17 $275,000
19 Joe Kovacs 2018 to 2026 United States 8 11 $262,000
20 Kristjan Čeh 2021 to 2026 Slovenia 6 12 $261,500
21 Miltiadis Tentoglou 2019 to 2026 Greece 7 12 $261,500
22 Timothy Cheruiyot 2017 to 2026 Kenya 9 10 $260,500
23 Shanieka Ricketts 2018 to 2025 Jamaica 7 8 $245,750
24 Katie Moon 2017 to 2026 United States 9 11 $245,125
25 Tobi Amusan 2019 to 2026 Nigeria 7 7 $238,250
26 Nicola Olyslagers 2021 to 2026 Australia 6 10 $231,167
27 Pedro Pichardo 2017 to 2026 Portugal 9 11 $223,500
28 Chase Jackson 2021 to 2026 United States 5 12 $222,500
29 Masai Russell 2024 to 2026 United States 3 8 $219,500
30 Akani Simbine 2017 to 2026 South Africa 9 11 $213,750
31 Letsile Tebogo 2022 to 2026 Botswana 5 10 $213,250
32 Yulimar Rojas 2019 to 2023 Venezuela 4 12 $212,000
33 Andy Díaz 2019 to 2026 Italy 7 10 $211,500
34 Sandi Morris 2017 to 2026 United States 9 9 $210,500
35 Ryan Crouser 2018 to 2026 United States 7 10 $210,000
36 Malaika Mihambo 2019 to 2026 Germany 7 8 $207,750
37 Marie-Josée Ta Lou 2018 to 2024 Ivory Coast 6 5 $202,000
38 Haruka Kitaguchi 2022 to 2026 Japan 5 11 $199,500
39 Fred Kerley 2019 to 2024 United States 5 8 $198,250
40 Faith Cherotich 2022 to 2026 Kenya 5 8 $198,000
Armand Duplantis $586k Marileidy Paulino $420k Femke Bol $412k Shericka Jackson $391k Yaroslava Mahuchikh $382k Noah Lyles $382k Alison dos Santos $380k Karsten Warholm $356k Jakob Ingebrigtsen $345k Dina Asher-Smith $322k Emmanuel Wanyonyi $322k Valarie Allman $321k Julien Alfred $316k Soufiane El Bakkali $306k Sam Kendricks $289k

Armand Duplantis has won $585,750 of the $53,753,250 the series has paid, from 34 wins across eight seasons. Every figure is prize money collected at a meeting. There is no appearance fee in any of it, no sponsorship and no bonus for a record. The table lists the 40 biggest of 2,112.

The World Championships

Tokyo 2025, and the 49 finals that shared $8,480,000

$70,000 to win
The athletes the 2025 World Championships paid the most.
# ATHLETE IN TOKYO EARNED
1 Armand Duplantis Sweden Men's pole vault won it, and the world record $170,000
2 Beatrice Chebet Kenya Women's 5000 metres and one more $140,000
3 María Pérez Spain Women's 20 kilometres walk and one more $140,000
4 Melissa Jefferson-Wooden United States Women's 100 metres and one more $140,000
5 Caio Bonfim Brazil Men's 20 kilometres walk and one more $105,000
6 Faith Kipyegon Kenya Women's 1500 metres and one more $105,000
7 Jimmy Gressier France Men's 10,000 metres and one more $92,000
8 Noah Lyles United States Men's 200 metres and one more $92,000
9 Alphonce Simbu Tanzania Men's marathon won it $70,000
10 Anna Hall United States Women's heptathlon won it $70,000
11 Camryn Rogers Canada Women's hammer throw won it $70,000
12 Cole Hocker United States Men's 5000 metres won it $70,000
334 athletes paid 49 finals $8,480,000$8.5m
Ultimate Championship, Budapest $150k
World Championships, Tokyo $70k
World Indoor Championships $40k
Diamond League final $30k
Diamond League meeting $10k

Armand Duplantis took $170,000 of it from one final, $100,000 of which is the world record bonus and sits on top of the pot rather than coming out of it. A title pays $70,000 against $10,000 at a Diamond League meeting, and eight places are paid in every final: 44 individual events at $172,000 apiece and five relays at $186,000, which comes to the $8,498,000 pot to the dollar.

The Ultimate Championship

Budapest 2026, and the biggest pot ever put up at one meeting

$10,000,000
The athletes the 2026 Ultimate Championship paid the most.
# ATHLETE IN BUDAPEST EARNED
1 Kenny Bednarek United States Men's 100 metres and one more $300,000
2 Melissa Jefferson-Wooden United States Women's 100 metres and one more $300,000
3 Alison dos Santos Brazil Men's 400 metres hurdles won it $150,000
4 Armand Duplantis Sweden Men's pole vault won it $150,000
5 Audrey Werro Switzerland Women's 800 metres won it $150,000
6 Collen Kebinatshipi Botswana Men's 400 metres won it $150,000
7 Djamel Sedjati Algeria Men's 800 metres won it $150,000
8 Gianmarco Tamberi Italy Men's high jump won it $150,000
9 Haruka Kitaguchi Japan Women's javelin throw won it $150,000
10 Ja'Kobe Tharp United States Men's 110 metres hurdles won it $150,000
11 Jakob Ingebrigtsen Norway Men's 5000 metres won it $150,000
12 Jasmine Jones United States Women's 400 metres hurdles won it $150,000
76 athletes paid 28 events $7,090,000$7.1m

Kenny Bednarek and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won two events each in Budapest, $300,000 apiece, which is more than any athlete has taken from a whole Diamond League season. The card is $150,000, $75,000 and $40,000 in every one of the 26 individual events, and $80,000 to a winning relay quartet. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.

The World Indoor Championships

Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026, and the 53 finals that shared $4,632,000

$40,000 to win
The athletes the World Indoor Championships have paid the most.
# ATHLETE BEST INDOORS EARNED
1 Andy Díaz Italy Men's triple jump won it in 2025 and 2026 $80,000
2 Armand Duplantis Sweden Men's pole vault won it in 2025 and 2026 $80,000
3 Devynne Charlton Bahamas Women's 60 metres hurdles won it in 2025 and 2026 $80,000
4 Jakob Ingebrigtsen Norway Men's 1500 metres two titles in 2025 $80,000
5 Leyanis Pérez Cuba Women's triple jump won it in 2025 and 2026 $80,000
6 Tom Walsh New Zealand Men's shot put won it in 2025 and 2026 $80,000
7 Mattia Furlani Italy Men's long jump won it in 2025, and one more $60,000
8 Sarah Mitton Canada Women's shot put won it in 2025, and one more $60,000
9 Zaynab Dosso Italy Women's 60 metres won it in 2026, and one more $60,000
10 Nicola Olyslagers Australia Women's high jump won it in 2025, and one more $52,667
11 Chase Jackson United States Women's shot put won it in 2026, and one more $50,000
12 Georgia Bell Great Britain Women's 1500 metres won it in 2026, and one more $50,000
233 athletes paid 53 finals $4,632,000$4.6m

Six athletes are level at the top of it on $80,000 each, every one of them a double champion. An indoor title pays $40,000 and so does an indoor relay title, which is true of no other championship in the sport: outdoors a winning quartet takes $80,000 against a world champion's $70,000.

The World Athletics Relays

Guangzhou 2025 and Gaborone 2026, and the 12 finals that shared $1,067,000

$40,000 to the winning team
What each country has been paid at the World Athletics Relays.
# COUNTRY RUNNERS TITLES PAID
1 United States three titles from seven paid finals 24 3 $178,000
2 South Africa two titles from six paid finals 19 2 $136,000
3 Jamaica two titles from five paid finals 19 2 $124,000
4 Canada one title from eight paid finals 17 1 $100,000
5 Spain one title from six paid finals 17 1 $100,000
6 Great Britain one title from six paid finals 22 1 $76,000
7 Botswana one title from three paid finals 11 1 $54,000
8 Norway one title from two paid finals 6 1 $48,000
9 Australia five paid finals, no title 18 0 $46,000
10 Italy six paid finals, no title 21 0 $34,000
11 Belgium five paid finals, no title 17 0 $33,000
12 Germany six paid finals, no title 19 0 $30,000
13 Kenya three paid finals, no title 9 0 $24,000
14 Netherlands four paid finals, no title 16 0 $19,000
15 France three paid finals, no title 12 0 $15,000
16 Portugal two paid finals, no title 6 0 $11,000
17 China three paid finals, no title 12 0 $10,000
18 Japan one paid final, no title 4 0 $8,000
19 Poland two paid finals, no title 8 0 $6,000
20 Zimbabwe one paid final, no title 4 0 $6,000
21 Nigeria one paid final, no title 4 0 $4,000
22 Czechia one paid final, no title 4 0 $3,000
23 Ireland one paid final, no title 4 0 $2,000
23 countries 293 12 $1,067,000
United States $178k
South Africa $136k
Jamaica $124k
Canada $100k
Spain $100k
Great Britain $76k
Botswana $54k
Norway $48k
Australia $46k
Italy $34k
Belgium $33k
Germany $30k

The United States has taken more of it than anyone, $178,000 from seven paid finals and three titles. None of it is an athlete's money. The relays are a team championship and the ladder pays a team, so every figure in the table above went to a federation rather than to one of the 293 people who ran.

The World Cross Country Championships

Belgrade 2024 and Tallahassee 2026, and the six races that shared $620,000

$30,000 to win a senior race
The athletes the World Cross Country Championships paid in their own name.
# ATHLETE RACE EARNED
1 Jacob Kiplimo Uganda Senior men's race won it twice $60,000
2 Agnes Jebet Ngetich Kenya Senior women's race won it in 2026, and one more $37,000
3 Beatrice Chebet Kenya Senior women's race won it in 2024 $30,000
4 Berihu Aregawi Ethiopia Senior men's race 2nd in 2026, and one more $30,000
5 Joy Cheptoyek Uganda Senior women's race 2nd in 2026 $15,000
6 Lilian Kasait Rengeruk Kenya Senior women's race 2nd in 2024 $15,000
7 Benson Kiplangat Kenya Senior men's race 3rd in 2024 $10,000
8 Daniel Ebenyo Kenya Senior men's race 3rd in 2026 $10,000
9 Margaret Kipkemboi Kenya Senior women's race 3rd in 2024 $10,000
10 Senayet Getachew Ethiopia Senior women's race 3rd in 2026 $10,000
11 Asayech Ayichew Ethiopia Senior women's race 4th in 2026 $7,000
12 Nicholas Kimeli Kenya Senior men's race 4th in 2024 $7,000
21 athletes paid three races $280,000
Kenya $217k
Ethiopia $144k
Uganda $138k
United States $30k
Australia $28k
Spain $22k
France $16k
Great Britain $6,000
Eritrea $4,000
Japan $4,000
Morocco $4,000
Tanzania $4,000

Jacob Kiplimo has taken more of that than anyone, $60,000 from two paid races. The chart is a different figure: it counts each country's federation money as well, which is the larger half.

Men and women

The same rate for a win, and what each programme was paid

$53,753,250
What the men's and women's Diamond League programmes have been paid, with the disciplines behind each.
PROGRAMME DISCIPLINES RUNNINGS ATHLETES WINS PAID
Men's programme 21 778 1,084 778 $26,793,250$26.8m
Women's programme 20 784 1,028 786 $26,960,000$27.0m
Both 41 1,562 2,112 1,564 $53,753,250$53.8m

The rate card makes no distinction at all: $10,000 for a win, $30,000 at the final, eight places paid, whoever is running. So the $166,750 between the two rows above is not a pay gap, it is a programme gap: the women's disciplines have been on a meeting programme 784 times against the men's 778.

What each country has won

Every nation the Diamond League has paid, and where the rest of its money is

119 countries
What each country's athletes have won in Diamond League prize money.
# COUNTRY ATHLETES WINS WON
1 United States USA 337 337 $11,115,292$11.1m
2 Jamaica JAM 91 116 $3,799,750$3.8m
3 Kenya KEN 97 130 $3,621,250$3.6m
4 Ethiopia ETH 94 75 $2,558,000$2.6m
5 Great Britain GBR 125 53 $2,400,500$2.4m
6 Australia AUS 56 43 $1,798,833$1.8m
7 Netherlands NED 38 50 $1,475,667$1.5m
8 Germany GER 74 31 $1,323,917
9 Sweden SWE 46 50 $1,310,458
10 Italy ITA 63 31 $1,231,750
11 Ukraine UKR 18 32 $1,125,000
12 Norway NOR 40 40 $1,118,250
13 France FRA 100 7 $950,542
14 Canada CAN 31 19 $874,500
15 Cuba CUB 17 29 $859,250
16 Switzerland SUI 45 18 $843,375
17 South Africa RSA 34 28 $730,000
18 Poland POL 44 12 $717,542
19 Greece GRE 9 22 $666,375
20 Botswana BOT 15 25 $631,250
21 Brazil BRA 13 23 $575,000
22 Dominican Republic DOM 6 28 $568,500
23 China CHN 38 18 $560,167
24 Bahrain BRN 10 20 $523,250
25 New Zealand NZL 13 15 $515,125
26 Portugal POR 17 15 $472,750
27 Nigeria NGR 10 10 $454,750
28 Slovenia SLO 9 13 $451,625
29 Japan JPN 22 12 $430,917
30 Morocco MAR 31 20 $429,250
31 Authorised Neutral Athletes ANA 12 17 $403,250
32 Czechia CZE 15 6 $369,208
33 Serbia SRB 7 11 $364,750
34 Bahamas BAH 9 14 $361,750
35 Spain ESP 32 5 $356,250
36 Uganda UGA 12 6 $355,750
37 Ivory Coast CIV 8 7 $347,500
38 Grenada GRN 2 13 $327,250
39 Saint Lucia LCA 1 13 $316,000
40 Qatar QAT 24 12 $301,583
41 Belgium BEL 42 5 $300,875
42 Croatia CRO 8 7 $268,500
43 Algeria ALG 5 9 $262,500
44 Lithuania LTU 7 8 $243,750
45 Venezuela VEN 2 12 $235,750
46 Ireland IRL 15 4 $226,000
47 Turkey TUR 10 4 $197,000
48 Kazakhstan KAZ 6 8 $196,500
49 India IND 11 5 $182,000
50 Trinidad and Tobago TTO 6 0 $177,750
51 Puerto Rico PUR 4 12 $176,000
52 Burkina Faso BUR 2 4 $158,250
53 Estonia EST 3 1 $138,750
54 Belarus BLR 13 2 $137,000
55 Colombia COL 8 6 $127,750
56 Sri Lanka SRI 2 5 $124,250
57 South Korea KOR 2 5 $113,750
58 British Virgin Islands IVB 4 1 $111,250
59 Slovakia SVK 5 5 $102,000
60 Bulgaria BUL 5 1 $93,583
61 Barbados BAR 4 0 $93,000
62 Liberia LBR 6 0 $93,000
63 Cameroon CMR 1 2 $87,000
64 Finland FIN 16 1 $86,500
65 Panama PAN 1 1 $86,000
66 Burundi BDI 3 4 $83,500
67 Dominica DMA 1 1 $81,500
68 Austria AUT 4 0 $79,250
69 Luxembourg LUX 3 2 $79,250
70 Latvia LAT 6 0 $78,750
71 Philippines PHI 1 1 $78,125
72 Tunisia TUN 4 1 $77,250
73 Zambia ZAM 1 1 $60,000
74 Senegal SEN 1 2 $57,000
75 Namibia NAM 2 2 $44,750
76 Chinese Taipei TPE 2 1 $43,500
77 Hungary HUN 6 0 $39,000
78 Djibouti DJI 2 0 $36,250
79 Syria SYR 1 1 $36,000
80 Moldova MDA 1 0 $35,750
81 Zimbabwe ZWE 2 0 $34,500
82 Mexico MEX 5 0 $33,583
83 Uzbekistan UZB 2 2 $30,375
84 Gambia GAM 3 1 $26,000
85 Denmark DEN 8 1 $23,750
86 Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH 2 0 $22,250
87 Chile CHI 2 0 $21,750
88 Azerbaijan AZE 1 0 $20,500
89 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VCT 1 0 $17,750
90 Costa Rica CRC 1 1 $16,000
91 Romania ROU 10 0 $15,500
92 Guatemala GUA 1 0 $13,750
93 Cyprus CYP 3 0 $13,000
94 Niger NIG 1 0 $12,750
95 Iran IRI 2 0 $12,500
96 Montenegro MNE 1 0 $11,750
97 Egypt EGY 3 0 $10,250
98 Benin BEN 1 0 $9,750
99 Israel ISR 2 0 $8,500
100 Samoa SAM 1 0 $8,500
101 Uruguay URU 1 0 $8,000
102 Guyana GUY 2 0 $6,750
103 Albania ALB 1 0 $5,250
104 Ghana GHA 1 0 $4,500
105 South Sudan SSD 2 0 $3,000
106 Peru PER 1 0 $2,500
107 Ecuador ECU 1 0 $2,000
108 Iceland ISL 1 0 $2,000
109 Pakistan PAK 1 0 $2,000
110 Antigua and Barbuda ANT 1 0 $1,750
111 Eritrea ERI 1 0 $1,500
112 Kuwait KUW 2 0 $1,500
113 Thailand THA 2 0 $1,500
114 Bermuda BER 1 0 $1,000
115 Saint Kitts and Nevis SKN 1 0 $1,000
116 Saudi Arabia KSA 1 0 $1,000
117 Somalia SOM 1 0 $1,000
118 Congo CGO 1 0 $500
119 Hong Kong HKG 1 0 $500
119 countries 1,966 1,555 $52,974,667$53.0m
United States $11m
Jamaica $3.8m
Kenya $3.6m
Ethiopia $2.6m
Great Britain $2.4m
Australia $1.8m
Netherlands $1.5m
Germany $1.3m
Sweden $1.3m
Italy $1.2m
Ukraine $1.1m
Norway $1.1m

The United States has won $11,115,292, 20.7% of everything the series has paid, from 337 athletes. Of the 119 countries, 43 have been paid without ever winning a discipline, which is what paying eight deep does. A further 146 athletes, on $778,583 between them, have no country in the result tables we hold and are not in the table above.

This table is the Diamond League alone. Athletics prize money by country adds the championships to it: $74,963,667 across all six competitions, 121 countries, and the $2,917,000 that went to a federation rather than to anybody who ran. Every country in the table above has its own page there.

The Diamond League, season by season

Every summer the series has paid

All nine seasons
Every Diamond League season, its meetings, the athletes it paid and what it paid them.
SEASON MEETINGS ATHLETES PAID PAID
Diamond League 2026 15 626 $9,200,500$9.2m
Diamond League 2025 15 667 $9,188,500$9.2m
Diamond League 2024 15 712 $6,752,000$6.8m
Diamond League 2023 14 642 $6,520,250$6.5m
Diamond League 2022 13 668 $6,052,500$6.1m
Diamond League 2021 12 627 $5,591,000$5.6m
Diamond League 2019 14 596 $8,092,500$8.1m
Diamond League 2018 3 of 14 meetings 3 260 $1,196,000
Diamond League 2017 3 255 $1,160,000
9 seasons 104 2,112 $53,753,250$53.8m

What athletics has paid, season by season

season running total

The line is the running total. The athlete column counts people rather than payments, so the same name appears in several seasons and once in each: 2,112 athletes have been paid across the nine seasons, and the columns add to $53,753,250.

Every Diamond League meeting

What each one has paid across every edition of it

18 meetings
Every Diamond League meeting, where it is run and what it has paid.
MEETING WHERE EDITIONS PAID
Weltklasse Zürich has held four finals Zürich Switzerland 7 $8,555,500$8.6m
AG Memorial Van Damme has held three finals Brussels Belgium 7 $7,239,000$7.2m
Prefontaine Classic has held the final Eugene United States 7 $4,311,250$4.3m
Meeting de Paris Paris France 9 $3,608,750$3.6m
Doha Diamond League Doha Qatar 9 $3,595,250$3.6m
Bislett Games Oslo Norway 9 $3,526,500$3.5m
Athletissima Lausanne Switzerland 7 $2,864,000$2.9m
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea Rome Italy 7 $2,842,500$2.8m
Bauhausgalan Stockholm Sweden 7 $2,826,000$2.8m
Herculis EBS Fontvieille Monaco 7 $2,747,750$2.7m
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat Rabat Morocco 6 $2,434,750$2.4m
Kamila Skolimowska Memorial Chorzów Poland 5 $2,129,500$2.1m
Shanghai Diamond League Shaoxing China 4 $1,796,500$1.8m
London Athletics Meet London Great Britain 4 $1,694,750$1.7m
Xiamen Diamond League Xiamen China 4 $1,675,000$1.7m
Anniversary Games Gateshead 2 $796,000
Birmingham Diamond League Birmingham Great Britain 2 $763,500
Müller Grand Prix Gateshead Gateshead 1 $346,750
18 meetings 17 cities 104 $53,753,250$53.8m

A series meeting pays the same rate for the same finishing place wherever it is run, so what separates these totals is how many disciplines each meeting put on and how many times it has been held. The final is the exception, and it pays three times what a series meeting pays for a win.

Frequently asked questions

How much do athletes earn in prize money?

The Diamond League has paid $53,753,250 over nine seasons, 2017 to 2026, to 2,112 athletes from 119 countries. That is 12,192 separate payments, and the biggest career total in it is $585,750, Armand Duplantis's. Nobody on this page is paid a salary: every figure here was won on the day.

What does an athletics win pay?

At a Diamond League series meeting, $10,000, and $30,000 at the final. The rate is the same in every discipline, so a win in the shot put pays what a win in the 100 m pays, and eight places are paid in each. A Diamond+ discipline doubles the win, to $20,000.

What is the richest meeting in athletics?

The Ultimate Championship, which World Athletics ran for the first time in Budapest in 2026 with $10,000,000 to give away over three days. A win there is worth $150,000, against $10,000 at a Diamond League series meeting, and 76 athletes were paid from the published card. The World Championships put up $8,498,000 in Tokyo the same year and handed over $8,480,000 of it, to 334 athletes and 74 countries.

How much do you get for winning a World Championship?

A world title is worth $70,000 in every one of the 44 individual events, and a winning relay team takes $80,000, which is the country's money rather than any one runner's. Eight places are paid in every final, down to $5,000 for 8th, and a world record pays $100,000 on top of that.

How much do you get for winning a World Indoor Championship?

An indoor world title pays $40,000, and so does an indoor relay title: the two ladders are the same ladder, which is true of no other championship in the sport. Outdoors a winning relay team takes $80,000 against a world champion's $70,000. Indoors six places are paid in every final, down to $4,000 for 6th, and a world record pays nothing at all on top.

How much do you get for winning the World Relays?

A World Relays title pays $40,000, and it pays it to the country rather than to the four who ran it: there is no individual event on the programme and no individual money anywhere in it. The ladder reaches all eight teams in a final, down to $2,000 for 8th, so every team that gets there leaves with something. A world record pays nothing on top.

How much do you get for winning the World Cross Country Championships?

Winning a senior race pays $30,000 and it is the runner's own. Winning the team standing behind it pays $20,000 and that is the federation's, so a country whose four scorers all finish outside the first six can leave with money nobody in the race was paid. Six places are paid in each, down to $3,000 for 6th. The mixed relay pays $12,000 to the winning country and reaches four teams deep, and the two under-20 races on the programme pay nothing at all.

Which country wins the most at the World Indoor Championships?

The United States, on $903,000 from 47 paid athletes and 11 titles across Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026. Great Britain is next on $306,000, then Italy on $280,000.

Which country won the most at the World Championships?

The United States, on $1,781,500 from 53 paid athletes and 16 titles in Tokyo. Kenya is next on $714,000, then Jamaica on $450,000.

Which country earns the most athletics prize money?

The United States, on $11,115,292 from 337 athletes and 337 wins, which is 20.7% of everything the series has paid. Jamaica is next on $3,799,750, then Kenya on $3,621,250.

Do women earn the same prize money as men in athletics?

In the Diamond League the rate is identical: a win pays $10,000 whoever runs it, and there is no discipline on the card where the two are paid differently. What has differed is how much of the programme each half got. The men's disciplines have been paid $26,793,250 and the women's $26,960,000, a gap of $166,750 built entirely out of 784 runnings against 778.

How many athletes get paid?

Eight a discipline, and ninth pays nothing. 2,112 athletes have been paid at least once; another 438 appear in the same result tables having never finished inside the eight, so they are named where they finished and paid nothing at all.

What athletics does this section cover?

The Wanda Diamond League: nine seasons, 104 meetings, 1,562 runnings of a discipline and every prize inside them. There is a page for each season, each meeting, each discipline and each of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. Alongside it the World Championships, Tokyo 2025, a page for each of its 49 finals and the 334 athletes they paid, the Ultimate Championship, Budapest 2026, with a page for each of its 28 events, the World Indoor Championships, Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026, with a page for each of its 27 events, the World Relays, Guangzhou 2025 and Gaborone 2026, with a page for each of its six finals, and the World Cross Country Championships, Belgrade 2024 and Tallahassee 2026, with a page for each of the three races that pay.

Where to next

Every season, meeting and discipline, and every final the championships paid

Diamond League prize money holds all nine seasons in one place, 104 meetings and $53,753,250, with the ten rate cards the series has paid under. Ultimate Championship prize money is the 2026 championship in Budapest, $10,000,000 over three days, and World Championships prize money is Tokyo 2025, 49 finals and $8,480,000 paid across them. Indoor championships prize money is Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026, 53 finals and $4,632,000 paid to 233 athletes. World Relays prize money is Guangzhou 2025 and Gaborone 2026, 12 finals and $1,067,000 paid to 23 countries. Cross country prize money is Belgrade 2024 and Tallahassee 2026, 10 races and $620,000 split between 21 athletes and 13 federations. Olympic athletics prize money is the one Games that has ever paid for a medal, $50,000 a gold across 48 events and $2,400,000 in all, with 97 of the 145 medals carrying nothing. Athletics prize money by country is the join across all six of them, 121 countries and $74,963,667, with a page for each.

Every event at the World Championships

Every event at the Ultimate Championship

Every event at the World Indoor Championships

Every event at the World Relays

Every race that pays at the World Cross Country Championships

Every season

Every meeting

Every discipline