Cyréna Samba-Mayela prize money
Cyréna Samba-Mayela has been paid $18,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1207th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from eight paid finishes in the women's 100 m hurdles, the best of them 2nd.
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 she finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weltklasse Zürich 2024 | 100 m hurdles | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2024 | 100 m hurdles | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2024 | 100 m hurdles | 4th | $2,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 | 100 m hurdles | 7th | $1,500 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2024 | 100 m hurdles | 6th | $1,000 |
| Athletissima 2024 | 100 m hurdles | 7th | $750 |
| Meeting de Paris 2022 | 100 m hurdles | 4th | $2,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2022 | 100 m hurdles | 5th | $1,250 |
| All eight | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $18,000 |
The eight paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $18,000 is eight separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.02% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The Olympic Games
What Cyréna Samba-Mayela won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Women's 100 metres hurdles | Silver | - |
The silver in the women's 100 metres hurdles 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
2022 to 2024, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | - | Meeting de Paris | $3,250 |
| 2023 | - | - | - | - |
| 2024 | 6 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $14,750 |
season running total
2024 is the biggest of them, $14,750 from six starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Cyréna Samba-Mayela in 2023, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $18,000.
Around Cyréna Samba-Mayela on the money list
Ranks 1187 to 1227
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1187 | Lamara Distin | Women's high jump | - | $18,750 |
| 1188 | Lynna Irby | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1189 | Mekides Abebe | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1190 | Michaela Meijer | Women's pole vault | - | $18,750 |
| 1191 | Shane Brathwaite | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $18,750 |
| 1192 | Zerfe Wondemagegn | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1193 | Charlene Lipsey | Women's 800 m | - | $18,500 |
| 1194 | Christin Wurth-Thomas | two disciplines | 1 | $18,500 |
| 1195 | Khadevis Robinson | Men's 800 m | 1 | $18,500 |
| 1196 | Lyukman Adams | Men's triple jump | 2 | $18,500 |
| 1197 | Michael Bingham | Men's 400 m | - | $18,500 |
| 1198 | Sheri-Ann Brooks | two disciplines | - | $18,500 |
| 1199 | Dariya Derkach | Women's triple jump | - | $18,250 |
| 1200 | Susan Ejore | Women's 1500 m | - | $18,250 |
| 1201 | Timothé Mumenthaler | two disciplines | - | $18,250 |
| 1202 | Worknesh Mesele | three disciplines | - | $18,250 |
| 1203 | Vita Styopina | Women's high jump | - | $18,083 |
| 1204 | Oksana Okuneva | Women's high jump | - | $18,050 |
| 1205 | Brahim Taleb | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $18,000 |
| 1206 | Brigitte Ann Foster-Hylton | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1207 | Cyréna Samba-Mayela | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $18,000 |
| 1208 | Egide Ntakarutimana | two disciplines | - | $18,000 |
| 1209 | Ewa Swoboda | Women's 100 m | - | $18,000 |
| 1210 | Germán Luján Lauro | Men's shot put | - | $18,000 |
| 1211 | Hobbs Kessler | four disciplines | - | $18,000 |
| 1212 | Ibrahim Jeilan | Men's 5000 m | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1213 | Irina Gumenyuk | Women's triple jump | - | $18,000 |
| 1214 | Jaida Ross | Women's shot put | - | $18,000 |
| 1215 | Lyudmila Kolchanova | Women's long jump | - | $18,000 |
| 1216 | McKenzie Long | two disciplines | - | $18,000 |
| 1217 | Raul Spank | Men's high jump | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1218 | Renata Pliś | four disciplines | - | $18,000 |
| 1219 | Roxana Gómez | Women's 400 m | - | $18,000 |
| 1220 | Tsigie Gebreselama | two disciplines | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1221 | Kateryna Tabashnyk | Women's high jump | - | $17,800 |
| 1222 | David Neville | Men's 400 m | - | $17,750 |
| 1223 | Margaret Akidor | two disciplines | 1 | $17,750 |
| 1224 | Shafiqua Maloney | two disciplines | - | $17,750 |
| 1225 | Michaela Hrubá | Women's high jump | - | $17,583 |
| 1226 | Aleksandr Gripich | Men's pole vault | - | $17,500 |
| 1227 | Alena Abramchuk | Women's shot put | - | $17,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Cyréna Samba-Mayela is 1207th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $18,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Cyréna Samba-Mayela most
Weltklasse Zürich 2024 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 100 m hurdles, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Masai Russell, Grace Stark, Nadine Visser, Danielle Williams, Kendra Harrison and Pia Skrzyszowska.
Xiamen Diamond League 2024 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 100 m hurdles, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Danielle Williams, Tobi Amusan, Masai Russell, Ditaji Kambundji, Megan Simmonds and Alaysha Johnson.
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2024 paid $2,000 for 4th in the 100 m hurdles, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Alaysha Johnson, Kendra Harrison, Ditaji Kambundji, Giada Carmassi, Ackera Nugent and Masai Russell.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Cyréna Samba-Mayela won?
$18,000, which ranks 1207th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from eight paid finishes between 2022 and 2024.
What is Cyréna Samba-Mayela's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the 100 m hurdles at the 2024 Weltklasse Zürich. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 2nd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Cyréna Samba-Mayela gets paid?
Entirely by where she 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 women's 100 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.
Is this everything Cyréna Samba-Mayela 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 her, 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 Cyréna Samba-Mayela is Brigitte Ann Foster-Hylton on $18,000, and one below Egide Ntakarutimana on $18,000. Cyréna Samba-Mayela is one of 181 France athletes athletics has paid, and France athletics prize money adds them up to $3,087,958 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 100 m hurdles prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Cyréna Samba-Mayela has been paid in one of them. The biggest of the rest are women's 100 m, women's 400 m and women's 800 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Weltklasse Zürich has its own page across every edition of it.