Chris Baker prize money
Chris Baker has been paid $6,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 981st of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from five paid finishes in the men's high jump, the best of them 6th.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary Games 2021 | High jump | 7th | $750 |
| Müller Grand Prix Birmingham 2019 | High jump | 6th | $2,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2019 | High jump | 7th | $1,500 |
| Müller Anniversary Games 2019 | High jump | 8th | $1,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2017 | High jump | 7th | $1,500 |
| All five | Men's high jump | — | $6,750 |
The five paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $6,750 is five separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.01% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them.
Season by season
2017 to 2021, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | — | Doha Diamond League | $1,500 |
| 2018 | — | — | — | — |
| 2019 | 3 | — | Müller Grand Prix Birmingham | $4,500 |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 1 | — | Anniversary Games | $750 |
season running total
2019 is the biggest of them, $4,500 from three starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Chris Baker in 2018 and 2020, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $6,750.
Around Chris Baker on the money list
Ranks 961 to 1001
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 961 | Águeda Marqués | two disciplines | — | $7,000 |
| 962 | Anna Hall | three disciplines | — | $7,000 |
| 963 | Brooke Stratton | Women's long jump | — | $7,000 |
| 964 | Dai Qianqian | Women's javelin throw | — | $7,000 |
| 965 | Gerson Baldé | Men's long jump | — | $7,000 |
| 966 | Kemar Mowatt | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $7,000 |
| 967 | Ky Robinson | two disciplines | — | $7,000 |
| 968 | Luka Janežič | Men's 400 m | — | $7,000 |
| 969 | Marie-Julie Bonnin | Women's pole vault | — | $7,000 |
| 970 | Minke Bisschops | two disciplines | — | $7,000 |
| 971 | Murali Sreeshankar | Men's long jump | — | $7,000 |
| 972 | Natalia Linares | Women's long jump | — | $7,000 |
| 973 | Purity Cherotich Kirui | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $7,000 |
| 974 | Ruth Jebet | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $7,000 |
| 975 | Simone Facey | Women's 200 m | — | $7,000 |
| 976 | Tobias Potye | Men's high jump | — | $7,000 |
| 977 | William Reais | Men's 200 m | — | $7,000 |
| 978 | Yuliya Leantsiuk | Women's shot put | — | $7,000 |
| 979 | Avinash Sable | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $6,750 |
| 980 | Benjamin Gföhler | Men's long jump | — | $6,750 |
| 981 | Chris Baker | Men's high jump | — | $6,750 |
| 982 | Emily Borthwick | Women's high jump | — | $6,750 |
| 983 | Gabriel Constantino | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $6,750 |
| 984 | Huang Bokai | Men's pole vault | — | $6,750 |
| 985 | Jarrion Lawson | Men's long jump | — | $6,750 |
| 986 | Kaylin Whitney | Women's 400 m | — | $6,750 |
| 987 | Marvin Bracy | Men's 100 m | — | $6,750 |
| 988 | Melissa Courtney-Bryant | two disciplines | — | $6,750 |
| 989 | Michelle-Lee Ahye | Women's 100 m | — | $6,750 |
| 990 | Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake | two disciplines | — | $6,750 |
| 991 | Abdelati El Guesse | Men's 800 m | — | $6,500 |
| 992 | Andrew Butchart | two disciplines | — | $6,500 |
| 993 | Bryan Levell | Men's 200 m | — | $6,500 |
| 994 | Chris Robinson | two disciplines | — | $6,500 |
| 995 | Christopher Morales Williams | Men's 400 m | — | $6,500 |
| 996 | Claudia Hollingsworth | two disciplines | — | $6,500 |
| 997 | Daniel Segers | Men's 400 m | — | $6,500 |
| 998 | Edgar Rivera | Men's high jump | — | $6,500 |
| 999 | Ehsan Hadadi | Men's discus throw | — | $6,500 |
| 1000 | Fátima Diame | Women's long jump | — | $6,500 |
| 1001 | Helen Schlachtenhaufen | two disciplines | — | $6,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Chris Baker is 981st of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $6,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Chris Baker most
Müller Grand Prix Birmingham 2019 paid $2,000 for 6th in the high jump, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Naoto Tobe, Jeron Robinson, Brandon Starc, Ilya Ivanyuk, Mathew Sawe and Wang Yu.
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2019 paid $1,500 for 7th in the high jump, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Gianmarco Tamberi, Sylwester Bednarek, Donald Thomas, Bohdan Bondarenko, Naoto Tobe and Ilya Ivanyuk.
Doha Diamond League 2017 paid $1,500 for 7th in the high jump, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Andriy Protsenko, Hamdi Ali, Mutaz Barsham, Robbie Grabarz, Donald Thomas and Majd Eddin Ghazal.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Chris Baker won?
$6,750, which ranks 981st of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from five paid finishes between 2017 and 2021.
What is Chris Baker's biggest Diamond League payday?
$2,000, for finishing 6th in the high jump at the 2019 Müller Grand Prix Birmingham. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 6th and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Chris Baker 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 high jump 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.
Is this everything Chris Baker earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 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 2,112 athletes across the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Chris Baker is Benjamin Gföhler on $6,750, and one below Emily Borthwick on $6,750. Chris Baker is one of 126 Great Britain athletes athletics has paid, and Great Britain athletics prize money adds them up to $3,411,000 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's high jump prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Chris Baker 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 Anniversary Games has its own page across every edition of it.