Abderrahman Samba prize money
Abderrahman Samba has been paid $154,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 168th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 25 paid finishes in the men's 400 m hurdles, men's 400 m and men's 300 m hurdles, seven of them wins.
The Diamond League pays by finishing place and nothing else. A published card sets what first through eighth is worth, the same figure in every discipline at that meeting, and ninth pays nothing.
Every payment
Where he finished, and what the card paid for it
The 25 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $154,500 is 25 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.1% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The World Championships
What Abderrahman Samba did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 400 metres hurdles | 3rd | 47.06 | $22,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Abderrahman Samba $22,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $154,500 from 25 Diamond League starts between 2018 and 2026. He ran on the Qatar team that finished 5th in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay, $12,000 to the federation rather than to any one of the four. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The Ultimate Championship
What Abderrahman Samba did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 400 metres hurdles | 5th | 47.78 | - |
Abderrahman Samba stood in one Ultimate Championship final in Budapest and finished outside the money. World Athletics pays the first three in each event, $150,000, $75,000 and $40,000, and publishes no rate below third, so there is no figure to put against where he finished. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Abderrahman Samba
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 400 m hurdles | 22 | 7 | 2018 to 2026 | $143,000 |
| Men's 400 m | 2 | - | 2018 to 2019 | $8,500 |
| Men's 300 m hurdles | 1 | - | 2025 | $3,000 |
The men's 400 m hurdles has paid Abderrahman Samba $143,000 of the $154,500, which is 93% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2018 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 7 | 6 | Doha Diamond League | $62,500 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | IAAF Diamond League Shanghai | $16,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 1 | - | Doha Diamond League | $2,000 |
| 2022 | - | - | - | - |
| 2023 | - | - | - | - |
| 2024 | 4 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $20,000 |
| 2025 | 5 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $39,500 |
| 2026 | 6 | - | London Athletics Meet | $14,500 |
season running total
2018 is the biggest of them, $62,500 from seven starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Abderrahman Samba in 2020, 2022 and 2023, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $154,500.
Around Abderrahman Samba on the money list
Ranks 148 to 188
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 148 | Aaron Brown | two disciplines | 2 | $167,000 |
| 149 | Abeba Aregawi | four disciplines | 12 | $166,000 |
| 150 | David Rudisha | Men's 800 m | 14 | $166,000 |
| 151 | Neeraj Chopra | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $165,500 |
| 152 | Will Claye | two disciplines | 4 | $164,750 |
| 153 | Hansle Parchment | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $164,000 |
| 154 | Selemon Barega | four disciplines | 5 | $163,750 |
| 155 | Eunice Sum | two disciplines | 11 | $162,500 |
| 156 | Andrius Gudžius | Men's discus throw | 2 | $162,000 |
| 157 | Marco Arop | two disciplines | 5 | $162,000 |
| 158 | Anderson Peters | Men's javelin throw | 7 | $161,000 |
| 159 | Konstantinos Filippidis | Men's pole vault | 6 | $161,000 |
| 160 | Julian Weber | Men's javelin throw | 4 | $160,750 |
| 161 | Norah Jeruto | two disciplines | 6 | $160,750 |
| 162 | Tajay Gayle | Men's long jump | 4 | $160,250 |
| 163 | Sunette Viljoen | Women's javelin throw | 4 | $160,000 |
| 164 | Nickel Ashmeade | two disciplines | 6 | $159,500 |
| 165 | Jasmine Camacho-Quinn | Women's 100 m hurdles | 12 | $158,500 |
| 166 | Mike Rodgers | Men's 100 m | 1 | $157,000 |
| 167 | Brianna Rollins-McNeal | Women's 100 m hurdles | 6 | $155,000 |
| 168 | Abderrahman Samba | three disciplines | 7 | $154,500 |
| 169 | Jessica Schilder | Women's shot put | 5 | $153,250 |
| 170 | Silke Spiegelburg | Women's pole vault | 8 | $153,250 |
| 171 | Ruth Beitia | Women's high jump | 7 | $153,000 |
| 172 | Ruswahl Samaai | Men's long jump | 2 | $152,500 |
| 173 | Mary Moraa | three disciplines | 9 | $151,500 |
| 174 | Ryan Whiting | Men's shot put | 5 | $150,500 |
| 175 | Nadine Müller | Women's discus throw | 3 | $150,000 |
| 176 | Alexis Copello | Men's triple jump | 2 | $149,500 |
| 177 | Andreas Thorkildsen | Men's javelin throw | 10 | $149,500 |
| 178 | Cordell Tinch | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $149,500 |
| 179 | Anzhelika Sidorova | Women's pole vault | 4 | $149,250 |
| 180 | Isaac Makwala | two disciplines | 1 | $148,750 |
| 181 | Aries Merritt | Men's 110 m hurdles | 8 | $148,500 |
| 182 | Jamal Britt | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $148,500 |
| 183 | Kara Winger | Women's javelin throw | 3 | $148,000 |
| 184 | Michael Tinsley | Men's 400 m hurdles | 8 | $148,000 |
| 185 | Ramil Guliyev | two disciplines | 5 | $147,500 |
| 186 | Robert Harting | Men's discus throw | 11 | $147,500 |
| 187 | Oblique Seville | Men's 100 m | 5 | $146,000 |
| 188 | Collen Kebinatshipi | Men's 400 m | 6 | $145,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Abderrahman Samba is 168th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $154,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Abderrahman Samba most
Weltklasse Zürich 2025 paid $20,000 for 2nd in the 400 m hurdles, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Ezekiel Nathaniel, CJ Allen, Matheus Lima, Trevor Bassitt, Alastair Chalmers and Berke Akçam.
AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 paid $12,000 for 2nd in the 400 m hurdles, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Rasmus Mägi, CJ Allen, Roshawn Clarke, Malik James-King, Gerald Drummond and Wilfried Happio.
Meeting de Paris 2025 paid $10,000 for 2nd in the 400 m hurdles, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Trevor Bassitt, Matheus Lima, Alastair Chalmers, Fantin Crisci, Hugo Menin and Rai Benjamin.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Abderrahman Samba won?
$154,500, which ranks 168th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 25 paid finishes between 2018 and 2026.
What is Abderrahman Samba's biggest Diamond League payday?
$20,000, for finishing 2nd in the Diamond+ 400 m hurdles at the 2025 Weltklasse Zürich. That is a final, which is why it is the biggest: the final pays two to five times what the same place is worth at a series meeting.
How does the Diamond League decide what Abderrahman Samba gets paid?
Entirely by where he finishes. The series publishes one rate card a season and applies it to every discipline at every meeting, so a win is worth the same in the men's 400 m hurdles as it is in the shot put on the same afternoon. Eight places are paid and ninth pays nothing. There is no bonus for a record and no share of a gate.
How many Diamond League meetings has Abderrahman Samba won?
Seven of 25, worth $70,000 between them. Three of his appearances came at a final, which paid $34,000.
How much did Abderrahman Samba win at the 2025 World Championships?
$22,000, from one paid final in Tokyo. The championships pay eight places in every event, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th.
Is this everything Abderrahman Samba earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Championships money above is separate money from a separate payer, and none of it is added together here. It holds no national federation payment, no appearance fee and no sponsorship. What it does hold is every dollar the series itself paid him, priced off the card it published.
Where to next
The rest of the Diamond League money
Diamond League prize money ranks all 3,683 athletes across the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Abderrahman Samba is Brianna Rollins-McNeal on $155,000, and one below Jessica Schilder on $153,250. Abderrahman Samba is one of 30 Qatar athletes athletics has paid, and Qatar athletics prize money adds them up to $750,833 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 400 m hurdles prize money, men's 400 m prize money and men's 300 m hurdles prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Abderrahman Samba has been paid in three of them. The biggest of the rest are men's 100 m, men's pole vault and men's 800 m. Every meeting he has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and London Athletics Meet has its own page across every edition of it. Away from the series, World Championships prize money is Tokyo 2025, $8,498,000 paid eight places deep in every event, and the full finals are on the men's 400 metres hurdles and men's 4 × 400 metres relay pages. Ultimate Championship prize money is the 2026 championship in Budapest, $10,000,000 over three days, and the full final is on the men's 400 metres hurdles page.