Elaine Thompson-Herah prize money
Elaine Thompson-Herah has been paid $380,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 26th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 39 paid finishes in the women's 100 m and women's 200 m, 21 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 she finished, and what the card paid for it
The 39 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $380,500 is 39 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.3% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the 40 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Athletics Relays
What Elaine Thompson-Herah ran on
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 4 × 100 metres relay | 1st | 42.00 | $40,000 |
The World Relays have paid $40,000 for the one team Elaine Thompson-Herah ran on in Gaborone 2026, and all of it went to Jamaica rather than to the four who ran. The $380,500 at the top of this page is what the Diamond League paid her. This is what World Athletics paid a country, and the two are not added together anywhere on the site. She was on the winning team once, which pays $40,000 against $20,000 for second. She ran alongside Briana Williams and Lavanya Williams, 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 Elaine Thompson-Herah
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 100 m | 27 | 18 | 2016 to 2024 | $278,500 |
| Women's 200 m | 13 | 3 | 2015 to 2022 | $102,000 |
The women's 100 m has paid Elaine Thompson-Herah $278,500 of the $380,500, which is 73% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2015 to 2024, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | - | Memorial Van Damme | $4,000 |
| 2016 | 7 | 5 | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $60,000 |
| 2017 | 9 | 7 | AG Memorial Van Damme | $134,000 |
| 2018 | 4 | - | Athletissima | $18,000 |
| 2019 | 7 | 2 | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $52,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 5 | 4 | Weltklasse Zürich | $66,000 |
| 2022 | 3 | 2 | Prefontaine Classic | $26,000 |
| 2023 | 3 | 1 | Memorial Van Damme | $20,500 |
| 2024 | 1 | - | Prefontaine Classic | - |
season running total
2017 is the biggest of them, $134,000 from nine starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Elaine Thompson-Herah in 2020 and 2024, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $380,500.
Around Elaine Thompson-Herah on the money list
Ranks 6 to 46
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Sam Kendricks | Men's pole vault | 18 | $481,917 |
| 7 | Renaud Lavillenie | Men's pole vault | 33 | $466,833 |
| 8 | Femke Broeders-Bol | three disciplines | 29 | $456,000 |
| 9 | Mariya Lasitskene | Women's high jump | 26 | $440,500 |
| 10 | Shericka Jackson | three disciplines | 19 | $429,250 |
| 11 | Karsten Warholm | three disciplines | 18 | $428,500 |
| 12 | Sifan Hassan | five disciplines | 16 | $424,250 |
| 13 | Faith Kipyegon | six disciplines | 23 | $423,000 |
| 14 | Marileidy Paulino | two disciplines | 25 | $420,500 |
| 15 | Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith | two disciplines | 11 | $417,250 |
| 16 | Timothy Cheruiyot | four disciplines | 17 | $416,500 |
| 17 | Shaunae Miller-Uibo | three disciplines | 21 | $415,000 |
| 18 | Mutaz Barsham | Men's high jump | 23 | $409,833 |
| 19 | Joe Kovacs | Men's shot put | 18 | $406,500 |
| 20 | Dina Asher-Smith | two disciplines | 10 | $401,500 |
| 21 | Katerina Stefanidi | Women's pole vault | 15 | $394,500 |
| 22 | Valarie Sion | Women's discus throw | 20 | $389,000 |
| 23 | Soufiane El Bakkali | four disciplines | 22 | $388,500 |
| 24 | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | Women's high jump | 21 | $382,250 |
| 25 | Alison dos Santos | three disciplines | 22 | $380,500 |
| 26 | Elaine Thompson-Herah | two disciplines | 21 | $380,500 |
| 27 | Ivana Španović | two disciplines | 18 | $373,000 |
| 28 | Tom Walsh | Men's shot put | 13 | $372,000 |
| 29 | Pedro Pichardo | Men's triple jump | 17 | $370,500 |
| 30 | Barbora Špotáková | Women's javelin throw | 19 | $365,500 |
| 31 | Valerie Adams | Women's shot put | 30 | $361,500 |
| 32 | Daniel Ståhl | Men's discus throw | 13 | $355,750 |
| 33 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | four disciplines | 19 | $348,000 |
| 34 | Chase Jackson | Women's shot put | 18 | $347,500 |
| 35 | Blessing Okagbare | three disciplines | 11 | $338,250 |
| 36 | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | two disciplines | 21 | $335,000 |
| 37 | Emmanuel Wanyonyi | two disciplines | 15 | $321,500 |
| 38 | Julien Alfred | two disciplines | 13 | $316,000 |
| 39 | Piotr Małachowski | Men's discus throw | 18 | $312,500 |
| 40 | Kirani James | Men's 400 m | 17 | $310,250 |
| 41 | Ryan Crouser | Men's shot put | 15 | $310,000 |
| 42 | Gong Lijiao | Women's shot put | 13 | $309,000 |
| 43 | Yaime Pérez | Women's discus throw | 8 | $307,500 |
| 44 | Conseslus Kipruto | two disciplines | 15 | $305,500 |
| 45 | Caster Semenya | three disciplines | 20 | $304,000 |
| 46 | Asbel Kiprop | four disciplines | 19 | $302,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Elaine Thompson-Herah is 26th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $380,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Elaine Thompson-Herah most
AG Memorial Van Damme 2017 paid $50,000 for 1st in the 100 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith, Blessing Okagbare, Michelle-Lee Ahye, Tianna Bartoletta, Morolake Akinosun and Jura Levy.
Weltklasse Zürich 2021 paid $30,000 for 1st in the 100 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Dina Asher-Smith, Ajla Del Ponte, Daryll Neita, Mujinga Kambundji, Javianne Oliver and Natasha Morrison.
Weltklasse Zürich 2017 paid $20,000 for 2nd in the 200 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith, Dafne Schippers, Kyra Jefferson, Mujinga Kambundji, Simone Facey and Crystal Emmanuel.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Elaine Thompson-Herah won?
$380,500, which ranks 26th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 39 paid finishes between 2015 and 2024.
What is Elaine Thompson-Herah's biggest Diamond League payday?
$50,000, for finishing 1st in the 100 m at the 2017 AG Memorial Van Damme. That is a final, which is why it is the biggest: the final pays two to five times what the same place is worth at a series meeting.
How does the Diamond League decide what Elaine Thompson-Herah 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 win is worth the same in the women's 100 m 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 Elaine Thompson-Herah won?
21 of 40, worth $270,000 between them. Five of her appearances came at a final, which paid $117,000.
Has Elaine Thompson-Herah ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
One time. 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. That start is in the result table on this site either way.
What did Elaine Thompson-Herah's World Relays teams win?
$40,000, across one paid final in Gaborone 2026. The relays pay a team rather than a runner, so the cheque goes to the federation and not to Elaine Thompson-Herah 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 Elaine Thompson-Herah earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The 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 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 Elaine Thompson-Herah is Alison dos Santos on $380,500, and one below Ivana Španović on $373,000. Elaine Thompson-Herah is one of 158 Jamaica athletes athletics has paid, and Jamaica athletics prize money adds them up to $8,413,000 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 100 m prize money and women's 200 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Elaine Thompson-Herah has been paid in two of them. The biggest of the rest are women's 100 m hurdles, 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 Prefontaine Classic has its own page across every edition of it. 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 women's 4 × 100 metres relay page.