Alex Rose prize money
Alex Rose has been paid $8,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1663rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from six paid finishes in the men's discus throw, the best of them 4th.
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
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prefontaine Classic 2026 | Discus throw | 5th | $2,500 |
| Bauhausgalan 2026 | Discus throw | 7th | $1,500 |
| Shanghai Diamond League 2026 | Discus throw | 10th | - |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2026 | Discus throw | 9th | - |
| London Athletics Meet 2023 | Discus throw | 4th | $2,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2023 | Discus throw | 6th | $1,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2022 | Discus throw | 8th | $500 |
| Bauhausgalan 2021 | Discus throw | 6th | $1,000 |
| All eight | Men's discus throw | - | $8,500 |
The six paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $8,500 is six separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.01% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the eight starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Alex Rose did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's discus throw | 3rd | 66.96m | $22,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Alex Rose $22,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $8,500 from eight Diamond League starts between 2021 and 2026. Nine days there paid him more than any whole Diamond League season has. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
Season by season
2021 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | - | Bauhausgalan | $1,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | - | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $500 |
| 2023 | 2 | - | London Athletics Meet | $3,000 |
| 2024 | - | - | - | - |
| 2025 | - | - | - | - |
| 2026 | 4 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $4,000 |
season running total
2026 is the biggest of them, $4,000 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Alex Rose in 2024 and 2025, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $8,500.
Around Alex Rose on the money list
Ranks 1643 to 1683
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1643 | Samuel Pihlström | two disciplines | - | $9,000 |
| 1644 | Shawn Crawford | Men's 200 m | - | $9,000 |
| 1645 | Tatyana Lebedeva | Women's triple jump | - | $9,000 |
| 1646 | Tommi Evilä | Men's long jump | - | $9,000 |
| 1647 | Treniere Moser | two disciplines | - | $9,000 |
| 1648 | Veronica Borsi | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $9,000 |
| 1649 | Veronica Vancardo | Women's 800 m | - | $9,000 |
| 1650 | Viivi Lehikoinen | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $9,000 |
| 1651 | Yoann Kowal | two disciplines | - | $9,000 |
| 1652 | Giuseppe Gibilisco | Men's pole vault | - | $8,833 |
| 1653 | Arthur Cissé | two disciplines | - | $8,750 |
| 1654 | Aurel Manga | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $8,750 |
| 1655 | Aynadis Mebratu | two disciplines | - | $8,750 |
| 1656 | Elena Bellò | Women's 800 m | - | $8,750 |
| 1657 | Gabriel Constantino | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $8,750 |
| 1658 | Luiza Gega | two disciplines | - | $8,750 |
| 1659 | Monika Pyrek | Women's pole vault | - | $8,750 |
| 1660 | Mouhamadou Fall | two disciplines | - | $8,750 |
| 1661 | Saúl Ordóñez | two disciplines | - | $8,750 |
| 1662 | Alemnat Walle | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $8,500 |
| 1663 | Alex Rose | Men's discus throw | - | $8,500 |
| 1664 | Alexis Brown | Women's long jump | - | $8,500 |
| 1665 | Anna Jagaciak | Women's triple jump | - | $8,500 |
| 1666 | Anna Jesień | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $8,500 |
| 1667 | Asha Philip | Women's 100 m | - | $8,500 |
| 1668 | Ben Bruce | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $8,500 |
| 1669 | Brett Morse | Men's discus throw | - | $8,500 |
| 1670 | Celera Barnes | Women's 100 m | - | $8,500 |
| 1671 | Cyrus Hostetler | Men's javelin throw | - | $8,500 |
| 1672 | Daisy Osakue | Women's discus throw | - | $8,500 |
| 1673 | Eduardo Herrera | two disciplines | - | $8,500 |
| 1674 | Gideon Gathimba | Men's mile | - | $8,500 |
| 1675 | Gloria Asumnu | Women's 100 m | - | $8,500 |
| 1676 | Hrystyna Stuy | Women's 200 m | - | $8,500 |
| 1677 | Jeff Riseley | three disciplines | - | $8,500 |
| 1678 | Joanna Wiśniewska | Women's discus throw | - | $8,500 |
| 1679 | José Figueroa | Men's 200 m | - | $8,500 |
| 1680 | Josh Mance | Men's 400 m | - | $8,500 |
| 1681 | LeJerald Betters | Men's 400 m | - | $8,500 |
| 1682 | Lucia Hrivnák Klocová | Women's 800 m | - | $8,500 |
| 1683 | Marija Šestak | Women's triple jump | - | $8,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Alex Rose is 1663rd of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $8,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Alex Rose most
Prefontaine Classic 2026 paid $2,500 for 5th in the discus throw, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Daniel Ståhl, Lawrence Okoye, Ralford Mullings, Sam Mattis, Reggie Jagers III and Mykolas Alekna.
London Athletics Meet 2023 paid $2,000 for 4th in the discus throw, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Andrius Gudžius, Lawrence Okoye, Sam Mattis, Simon Pettersson, Daniel Ståhl and Matthew Denny.
Bauhausgalan 2026 paid $1,500 for 7th in the discus throw, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Lawrence Okoye, Daniel Ståhl, Matthew Denny, Kristjan Čeh, Rojé Stona and Sam Mattis.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Alex Rose won?
$8,500, which ranks 1663rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from six paid finishes between 2021 and 2026.
What is Alex Rose's biggest Diamond League payday?
$2,500, for finishing 5th in the discus throw at the 2026 Prefontaine Classic. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 5th and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Alex Rose 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 place is worth the same in the men's discus throw 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.
Has Alex Rose ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Two times. The series pays the first eight and the fields run past twenty, so a ninth place is a Diamond League start that paid nothing at all. Those starts are in the result tables on this site either way.
How much did Alex Rose 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 Alex Rose 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 Alex Rose is Alemnat Walle on $8,500, and one below Alexis Brown on $8,500. Alex Rose is one of 1 Samoa athlete athletics has paid, and Samoa athletics prize money adds them up to $30,500 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's discus throw prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Alex Rose has been paid in one 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 Prefontaine Classic 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 discus throw page.