Elizabeth Bird prize money
Elizabeth Bird has been paid $9,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1600th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from four paid finishes in the women's 3000 m steeplechase, the best of them 3rd.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meeting de Paris 2024 | 3000 m steeplechase | 3rd | $3,500 |
| London Athletics Meet 2023 | 3000 m steeplechase | 11th | - |
| Herculis 2022 | 3000 m steeplechase | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Meeting de Paris 2022 | 3000 m steeplechase | 4th | $2,000 |
| Herculis EBS 2021 | 3000 m steeplechase | 7th | $750 |
| Müller Grand Prix Birmingham 2019 | 3000 m steeplechase | 13th | - |
| All six | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $9,750 |
The four paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $9,750 is four separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.01% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the six starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Season by season
2019 to 2024, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | - | Müller Grand Prix Birmingham | - |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 1 | - | Herculis EBS | $750 |
| 2022 | 2 | - | Herculis | $5,500 |
| 2023 | 1 | - | London Athletics Meet | - |
| 2024 | 1 | - | Meeting de Paris | $3,500 |
season running total
2022 is the biggest of them, $5,500 from two starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Elizabeth Bird in 2019, 2020 and 2023, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $9,750.
Around Elizabeth Bird on the money list
Ranks 1580 to 1620
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1580 | Josanne Lucas | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $10,000 |
| 1581 | Lauren Fleshman | Women's 5000 m | 1 | $10,000 |
| 1582 | Lauren Wells | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $10,000 |
| 1583 | Liina Laasma | Women's javelin throw | - | $10,000 |
| 1584 | Marta García | four disciplines | - | $10,000 |
| 1585 | Matthew Wilkinson | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $10,000 |
| 1586 | Mikhail Akimenko | Men's high jump | 1 | $10,000 |
| 1587 | Noah Kibet | Men's 800 m | 1 | $10,000 |
| 1588 | Olha Zemlyak | Women's 400 m | - | $10,000 |
| 1589 | Pavel Shalin | Men's long jump | - | $10,000 |
| 1590 | Pieter Conradie | Men's 400 m | - | $10,000 |
| 1591 | Rutger Smith | two disciplines | - | $10,000 |
| 1592 | Stephanie Twell | two disciplines | - | $10,000 |
| 1593 | Tate Taylor | Men's 200 m | 1 | $10,000 |
| 1594 | Yadisleidy Pedroso | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $10,000 |
| 1595 | Yasemin Can | two disciplines | - | $10,000 |
| 1596 | Zhang Mingkun | Men's long jump | 1 | $10,000 |
| 1597 | Amandine Brossier | Women's 400 m | - | $9,750 |
| 1598 | Attila Molnár | Men's 400 m | - | $9,750 |
| 1599 | Benjamin Gföhler | Men's long jump | - | $9,750 |
| 1600 | Elizabeth Bird | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $9,750 |
| 1601 | Kate Dennison | Women's pole vault | - | $9,750 |
| 1602 | Neil Gourley | two disciplines | - | $9,750 |
| 1603 | Ninon Chapelle | Women's pole vault | - | $9,750 |
| 1604 | Noélie Yarigo | two disciplines | - | $9,750 |
| 1605 | Aleec Harris | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $9,500 |
| 1606 | Antonina Krivoshapka | Women's 400 m | - | $9,500 |
| 1607 | Bianca Williams | Women's 200 m | - | $9,500 |
| 1608 | Brittany Borman | Women's javelin throw | - | $9,500 |
| 1609 | Fancy Cherotich | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $9,500 |
| 1610 | Fionnuala McCormack | two disciplines | - | $9,500 |
| 1611 | Georg Fleischhauer | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $9,500 |
| 1612 | Haftamnesh Tesfaye | two disciplines | - | $9,500 |
| 1613 | Hanna Titimets | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $9,500 |
| 1614 | Joanna Jóźwik | Women's 800 m | - | $9,500 |
| 1615 | Jura Levy | Women's 100 m | - | $9,500 |
| 1616 | Lythe Pillay | Men's 400 m | - | $9,500 |
| 1617 | Mikele Barber | Women's 100 m | - | $9,500 |
| 1618 | Rosângela Santos | two disciplines | - | $9,500 |
| 1619 | Shi Yuhao | Men's long jump | - | $9,500 |
| 1620 | Sofi Flink | Women's javelin throw | - | $9,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Elizabeth Bird is 1600th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $9,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Elizabeth Bird most
Meeting de Paris 2024 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Olivia Markezich, Lea Meyer, Marwa Bouzayani, Alicja Konieczek, Daisy Jepkemei and Beatrice Chepkoech.
Herculis 2022 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Emma Coburn, Jackline Chepkoech, Courtney Wayment, Marwa Bouzayani, Amy Cashin and Courtney Frerichs.
Meeting de Paris 2022 paid $2,000 for 4th in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Chiara Scherrer, Zerfe Wondemagegn, Rosefline Chepngetich, Kinga Królik, Alice Finot and Flavie Renouard.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Elizabeth Bird won?
$9,750, which ranks 1600th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from four paid finishes between 2019 and 2024.
What is Elizabeth Bird's biggest Diamond League payday?
$3,500, for finishing 3rd in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2024 Meeting de Paris. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 3rd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Elizabeth Bird 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 3000 m steeplechase 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.
Has Elizabeth Bird ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Two times. 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. Those starts are in the result tables on this site either way.
Is this everything Elizabeth Bird 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 Elizabeth Bird is Benjamin Gföhler on $9,750, and one below Kate Dennison on $9,750. Elizabeth Bird is one of 249 Great Britain athletes athletics has paid, and Great Britain athletics prize money adds them up to $6,351,625 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 3000 m steeplechase prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Elizabeth Bird has been paid in one of them. The biggest of the rest are women's 100 m, women's 100 m hurdles and women's 400 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Meeting de Paris has its own page across every edition of it.