Akani Simbine prize money
Akani Simbine has been paid $257,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 69th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 49 paid finishes in the men's 100 m, eleven 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 49 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $257,500 is 49 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.2% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The World Championships
What Akani Simbine did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 100 metres | 7th | 10.04 | $6,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Akani Simbine $6,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $257,500 from 49 Diamond League starts between 2015 and 2026. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The Ultimate Championship
What Akani Simbine did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 100 metres | 8th | 10.09 | - |
Akani Simbine 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.
The World Indoor Championships
What Akani Simbine did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 60 metres | 3rd | 6.54 | $10,000 |
The World Indoor Championships have paid Akani Simbine $10,000 for one finish in Nanjing 2025, against $257,500 from 49 Diamond League starts between 2015 and 2026. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
The World Athletics Relays
What Akani Simbine ran on, 2025 and 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 4 × 100 metres relay | 1st | 37.61 | $40,000 |
| Men's 4 × 100 metres relay | 2nd | 37.49 | $20,000 |
The World Relays have paid $60,000 for the two teams Akani Simbine ran on across Guangzhou 2025 and Gaborone 2026, and all of it went to South Africa rather than to the four who ran. The $257,500 at the top of this page is what the Diamond League paid him. This is what World Athletics paid a country, and the two are not added together anywhere on the site. He was on the winning team once, which pays $40,000 against $20,000 for second. He ran alongside Bayanda Walaza, Sinesipho Dambile, Bradley Nkoana and Cheswill Johnson, and the Diamond League has paid every one of them too. The World Relays page holds all 12 finals across two championships and the $1,067,000 they paid out.
The Olympic Games
What Akani Simbine won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Men's 4 × 100 metres relay | Silver | - |
The silver in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay paid nothing. Only a gold pays, so 97 of the 145 medals awarded on the athletics programme in Paris carried no money at all. The Olympic page holds all 48 golds, the $2,400,000 they paid and what the circuit pays the same champions.
Season by season
2015 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3 | - | Adidas Grand Prix | $6,250 |
| 2016 | 2 | - | Meeting de Paris | $12,000 |
| 2017 | 4 | 1 | Doha Diamond League | $22,000 |
| 2018 | 5 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $16,500 |
| 2019 | 5 | 1 | Müller Anniversary Games | $23,500 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 5 | 1 | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $20,250 |
| 2022 | 4 | 1 | Bauhausgalan | $18,000 |
| 2023 | 4 | 2 | Bauhausgalan | $28,000 |
| 2024 | 4 | 2 | Diamond League Shanghai | $28,500 |
| 2025 | 7 | 3 | Diamond League Shanghai | $70,000 |
| 2026 | 6 | - | Meeting de Paris | $12,500 |
season running total
2025 is the biggest of them, $70,000 from seven starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Akani Simbine in 2020, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $257,500.
Around Akani Simbine on the money list
Ranks 49 to 89
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | Kaliese Carter | two disciplines | 21 | $297,500 |
| 50 | Beatrice Chepkoech | three disciplines | 11 | $297,000 |
| 51 | Salwa Eid Naser | two disciplines | 13 | $296,500 |
| 52 | Katie Moon | Women's pole vault | 11 | $292,875 |
| 53 | Orlando Ortega | Men's 110 m hurdles | 11 | $287,500 |
| 54 | Kenny Bednarek | two disciplines | 13 | $286,500 |
| 55 | Allyson Felix | three disciplines | 19 | $283,250 |
| 56 | Jakub Vadlejch | Men's javelin throw | 9 | $281,750 |
| 57 | Shanieka Ricketts | Women's triple jump | 8 | $281,250 |
| 58 | Fred Kerley | three disciplines | 11 | $280,250 |
| 59 | Zuzana Hejnová | Women's 400 m hurdles | 16 | $272,000 |
| 60 | Dafne Schippers | two disciplines | 11 | $271,000 |
| 61 | Dalilah Muhammad | Women's 400 m hurdles | 10 | $270,500 |
| 62 | Sergey Shubenkov | Men's 110 m hurdles | 7 | $268,000 |
| 63 | Laura Muir | five disciplines | 11 | $266,750 |
| 64 | Yulimar Rojas | two disciplines | 13 | $266,000 |
| 65 | Miltiadis Tentoglou | Men's long jump | 12 | $263,500 |
| 66 | Christian Coleman | two disciplines | 10 | $263,000 |
| 67 | Olga Rypakova | Women's triple jump | 9 | $262,000 |
| 68 | Kristjan Čeh | Men's discus throw | 12 | $261,500 |
| 69 | Akani Simbine | Men's 100 m | 11 | $257,500 |
| 70 | Murielle Ahouré-Demps | two disciplines | 10 | $252,750 |
| 71 | Tobi Amusan | Women's 100 m hurdles | 7 | $252,250 |
| 72 | David Oliver | Men's 110 m hurdles | 14 | $247,000 |
| 73 | Kendra Harrison | Women's 100 m hurdles | 14 | $246,750 |
| 74 | Nicola Olyslagers | Women's high jump | 10 | $244,917 |
| 75 | Malaika Mihambo | Women's long jump | 10 | $244,750 |
| 76 | Javier Culson | Men's 400 m hurdles | 13 | $243,500 |
| 77 | Francine Niyonsaba | three disciplines | 14 | $238,000 |
| 78 | Hagos Gebrhiwet | two disciplines | 10 | $235,000 |
| 79 | Nijel Amos | Men's 800 m | 13 | $233,500 |
| 80 | Andre De Grasse | two disciplines | 11 | $233,000 |
| 81 | Reese Hoffa | Men's shot put | 14 | $226,500 |
| 82 | Fabiana Murer | Women's pole vault | 13 | $223,000 |
| 83 | Paul Kipsiele Koech | two disciplines | 9 | $222,500 |
| 84 | Dawn Harper-Nelson | Women's 100 m hurdles | 15 | $220,500 |
| 85 | Amantle Montsho | Women's 400 m | 12 | $219,500 |
| 86 | Masai Russell | Women's 100 m hurdles | 8 | $219,500 |
| 87 | Yomif Kejelcha | three disciplines | 11 | $217,500 |
| 88 | Letsile Tebogo | two disciplines | 10 | $213,250 |
| 89 | Ayanleh Souleiman | four disciplines | 8 | $212,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Akani Simbine is 69th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $257,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Akani Simbine most
Diamond League Shanghai 2025 paid $20,000 for 1st in the 100 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Kishane Thompson, Letsile Tebogo, Emmanuel Eseme, Christian Coleman, Rohan Watson and Jeremiah Azu.
Weltklasse Zürich 2025 paid $20,000 for 2nd in the 100 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Ackeem Blake, Jeremiah Azu, Brandon Hicklin, Trayvon Bromell, Shaun Maswanganyi and Bayanda Walaza.
Xiamen Diamond League 2025 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 100 m, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Ferdinand Omanyala, Jeremiah Azu, Christian Coleman, Lachlan Kennedy, Emmanuel Eseme and Letsile Tebogo.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Akani Simbine won?
$257,500, which ranks 69th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 49 paid finishes between 2015 and 2026.
What is Akani Simbine's biggest Diamond League payday?
$20,000, for finishing 1st in the Diamond+ 100 m at the 2025 Diamond League Shanghai. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 1st and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Akani Simbine 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 100 m 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 Akani Simbine won?
Eleven of 49, worth $120,000 between them. Eight of his appearances came at a final, which paid $44,500.
How much did Akani Simbine win at the 2025 World Championships?
$6,000, 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.
How much has Akani Simbine won at the World Indoor Championships?
$10,000, from one paid final in Nanjing 2025. An indoor title pays $40,000 and the ladder runs six places deep, down to $4,000 for 6th, the same in every event on the programme and the same for a relay team.
What did Akani Simbine's World Relays teams win?
$60,000, across two paid finals at Guangzhou 2025 and Gaborone 2026. The relays pay a team rather than a runner, so the cheque goes to the federation and not to Akani Simbine or to any one of the four. A title pays $40,000 and the ladder reaches all eight teams in a final, down to $2,000 for 8th.
Is this everything Akani Simbine earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Championships, World Indoor Championships and World Relays 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 Akani Simbine is Kristjan Čeh on $261,500, and one below Murielle Ahouré-Demps on $252,750. Akani Simbine is one of 54 South Africa athletes athletics has paid, and South Africa athletics prize money adds them up to $2,356,250 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 100 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Akani Simbine has been paid in one of them. The biggest of the rest are men's pole vault, men's 800 m and men's 200 m. Every meeting he has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Meeting de Paris 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 final is on the men's 100 metres page. 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 100 metres page. Indoor championships prize money is the Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026 championships, $4,664,000 put up across 53 finals, and the indoor final is on the men's 60 metres page. World Relays prize money is the Guangzhou 2025 and Gaborone 2026 championships, $1,087,000 put up across 12 finals that pay a team and never a runner, and the relay is on the men's 4 × 100 metres relay page.