Chris Robinson prize money
Chris Robinson has been paid $6,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 994th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from three paid finishes in the men's 400 m hurdles and men's 400 m, 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 | 400 m | 5th | $2,500 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2026 | 400 m hurdles | 8th | $1,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2025 | 400 m hurdles | 4th | $3,000 |
| All three | two disciplines | — | $6,500 |
The three paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $6,500 is three 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.
The World Indoor Championships
What Chris Robinson did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 400 metres | 4th | 45.55 | $8,000 |
The World Indoor Championships have paid Chris Robinson $8,000 for one finish in Toruń 2026, against $6,500 from three Diamond League starts between 2025 and 2026. Three days indoors paid him more than any whole Diamond League season has. He ran on the United States team that won the men's 4 × 400 metres relay in Toruń 2026, $40,000 to the team rather than to any one of the four. A winning quartet indoors takes $40,000, exactly what a winning individual takes, which is true of no other championship in the sport. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
The World Athletics Relays
What Chris Robinson ran on
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay | 1st | 3:09.54 | $40,000 |
The World Relays have paid $40,000 for the one team Chris Robinson ran on in Guangzhou 2025, and all of it went to the United States rather than to the four who ran. The $6,500 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 Courtney Okolo, Johnnie Blockburger and Lynna Irby-Jackson, 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.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Chris Robinson
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 400 m hurdles | 2 | — | 2025 to 2026 | $4,000 |
| Men's 400 m | 1 | — | 2026 | $2,500 |
The men's 400 m hurdles has paid Chris Robinson $4,000 of the $6,500, which is 62% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2025 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | — | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $3,000 |
| 2026 | 2 | — | Prefontaine Classic | $3,500 |
season running total
2026 is the biggest of them, $3,500 from two starts. Every season from 2025 to 2026 paid him something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $6,500.
Around Chris Robinson on the money list
Ranks 974 to 1014
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 1002 | Josh Awotunde | Men's shot put | — | $6,500 |
| 1003 | Kemi Adekoya | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $6,500 |
| 1004 | Kristin Gierisch | Women's triple jump | — | $6,500 |
| 1005 | Lex Brown | Women's long jump | — | $6,500 |
| 1006 | Lisa Ryzih | Women's pole vault | — | $6,500 |
| 1007 | Maggie Malone | Women's javelin throw | — | $6,500 |
| 1008 | Marta Zenoni | three disciplines | — | $6,500 |
| 1009 | Michael Obasuyi | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $6,500 |
| 1010 | Olga Rypakova | Women's triple jump | — | $6,500 |
| 1011 | Patriks Gailums | Men's javelin throw | — | $6,500 |
| 1012 | Sage Hurta-Klecker | two disciplines | — | $6,500 |
| 1013 | Shawnacy Barber | Men's pole vault | — | $6,500 |
| 1014 | Su Bingtian | Men's 100 m | — | $6,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Chris Robinson is 994th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $6,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Chris Robinson most
Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2025 paid $3,000 for 4th in the 400 m hurdles, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Trevor Bassitt, Roshawn Clarke, Berke Akçam, Patrik Dömötör, Alessandro Sibilio and Karsten Warholm.
Prefontaine Classic 2026 paid $2,500 for 5th in the 400 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Khaleb McRae, Vernon Norwood, Ezekiel Nathaniel, Michael Norman, Collen Kebinatshipi and Rai Benjamin.
Weltklasse Zürich 2026 paid $1,000 for 8th in the 400 m hurdles, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Alison dos Santos, Karsten Warholm, Ezekiel Nathaniel, Matheus Lima, Abderrahman Samba and Matic Ian Guček.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Chris Robinson won?
$6,500, which ranks 994th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from three paid finishes between 2025 and 2026.
What is Chris Robinson's biggest Diamond League payday?
$3,000, for finishing 4th in the 400 m hurdles at the 2025 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 4th and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Chris Robinson 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 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 much has Chris Robinson won at the World Indoor Championships?
$8,000, from one paid final in Toruń 2026. 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 Chris Robinson's World Relays teams win?
$40,000, across one paid final in Guangzhou 2025. The relays pay a team rather than a runner, so the cheque goes to the federation and not to Chris Robinson 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 Chris Robinson earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 meetings. The 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 2,112 athletes across the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Chris Robinson is Bryan Levell on $6,500, and one below Christopher Morales Williams on $6,500. Chris Robinson is one of 352 United States athletes athletics has paid, and United States athletics prize money adds them up to $16,292,792 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 400 m hurdles prize money and men's 400 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Chris Robinson has been paid in two 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. Indoor championships prize money is the Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026 championships, $4,664,000 put up across 53 finals, and the indoor finals are on the men's 400 metres and men's 4 × 400 metres relay pages. 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 mixed 4 × 400 metres relay page.