Andreas Thorkildsen prize money
Andreas Thorkildsen has been paid $149,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 177th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 23 paid finishes in the men's javelin throw, ten 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 23 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $149,500 is 23 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.
Season by season
2010 to 2014, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | 6 | Bislett Games | $66,000 |
| 2011 | 6 | 3 | Athletissima | $41,000 |
| 2012 | 2 | - | Bislett Games | $7,000 |
| 2013 | 6 | 1 | British Grand Prix | $28,000 |
| 2014 | 2 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $7,500 |
season running total
2010 is the biggest of them, $66,000 from seven starts. Every season from 2010 to 2014 paid him something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $149,500.
Around Andreas Thorkildsen on the money list
Ranks 157 to 197
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 189 | Mykolas Alekna | Men's discus throw | 7 | $145,500 |
| 190 | Simon Ehammer | Men's long jump | 3 | $145,500 |
| 191 | Rushell Clayton | Women's 400 m hurdles | 5 | $145,250 |
| 192 | Dani Stevens | Women's discus throw | 1 | $145,000 |
| 193 | Veronica Campbell Brown | two disciplines | 7 | $145,000 |
| 194 | Vernon Norwood | two disciplines | - | $143,250 |
| 195 | Mo Farah | three disciplines | 9 | $142,500 |
| 196 | Natoya Goule-Toppin | two disciplines | 1 | $142,500 |
| 197 | Sharika Nelvis | Women's 100 m hurdles | 4 | $142,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Andreas Thorkildsen is 177th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $149,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Andreas Thorkildsen most
British Grand Prix 2013 paid $10,000 for 1st in the javelin throw, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Ari Mannio, Dmitriy Tarabin, Roman Avramenko, Kim Amb, Stuart Farquhar and Lee Doran.
Athletissima 2011 paid $10,000 for 1st in the javelin throw, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Sergey Makarov, Matthias de Zordo, Vítězslav Veselý, Petr Frydrych, Tero Pitkämäki and Vadims Vasiļevskis.
Aviva British Grand Prix 2011 paid $10,000 for 1st in the javelin throw, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Matthias de Zordo, Jarrod Bannister, Stuart Farquhar, Robert Oosthuizen, Ari Mannio and James Campbell.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Andreas Thorkildsen won?
$149,500, which ranks 177th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 23 paid finishes between 2010 and 2014.
What is Andreas Thorkildsen's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the javelin throw at the 2013 British Grand Prix. 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 Andreas Thorkildsen 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 javelin 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.
How many Diamond League meetings has Andreas Thorkildsen won?
Ten of 23, worth $100,000 between them. He has not been paid at a Diamond League final.
Is this everything Andreas Thorkildsen earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. It holds no championship prize money, 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 Andreas Thorkildsen is Alexis Copello on $149,500, and one below Cordell Tinch on $149,500. Andreas Thorkildsen is one of 64 Norway athletes athletics has paid, and Norway athletics prize money adds them up to $2,108,833 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's javelin throw prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Andreas Thorkildsen 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.