Emmanouil Karalis prize money
Emmanouil Karalis has been paid $170,875 by the Diamond League, which ranks 143rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 22 paid finishes in the men's pole vault, three 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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
The 22 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $170,875 is 22 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.2% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the 24 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Emmanouil Karalis did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's pole vault | 2nd | 6.00 | $35,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Emmanouil Karalis $35,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $170,875 from 24 Diamond League starts between 2017 and 2026. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The Ultimate Championship
What Emmanouil Karalis did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's pole vault | 2nd | 6.15 m | $75,000 |
The Ultimate Championship paid Emmanouil Karalis $75,000 for one finish over three days, against $170,875 from 24 Diamond League starts between 2017 and 2026. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
The World Indoor Championships
What Emmanouil Karalis did indoors, 2025 and 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's pole vault | 2nd | 6.05 | $20,000 |
| Men's pole vault | 2nd | 6.05 | $20,000 |
The World Indoor Championships have paid Emmanouil Karalis $40,000 for two finishes across Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026, against $170,875 from 24 Diamond League starts between 2017 and 2026. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
The Olympic Games
What Emmanouil Karalis won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Men's pole vault | Bronze | - |
The bronze in the men's pole vault 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
2017 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | - | Meeting de Paris | - |
| 2018 | - | - | - | - |
| 2019 | 2 | - | Bauhausgalan | $3,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | - | - | - | - |
| 2022 | 1 | - | Doha Diamond League | $500 |
| 2023 | - | - | - | - |
| 2024 | 5 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $24,125 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | Weltklasse Zürich | $76,750 |
| 2026 | 7 | 2 | AG Memorial Van Damme | $66,500 |
season running total
2025 is the biggest of them, $76,750 from eight starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Emmanouil Karalis in 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2023, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $170,875.
Around Emmanouil Karalis on the money list
Ranks 123 to 163
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 | Shara Proctor | Women's long jump | 4 | $187,000 |
| 124 | Michelle Carter | Women's shot put | 3 | $186,500 |
| 125 | Blanka Vlašić | Women's high jump | 14 | $185,500 |
| 126 | Novlene Williams-Mills | Women's 400 m | 7 | $185,000 |
| 127 | Luvo Manyonga | Men's long jump | 8 | $184,500 |
| 128 | Leyanis Pérez | Women's triple jump | 9 | $183,250 |
| 129 | Olha Saladukha | Women's triple jump | 6 | $183,000 |
| 130 | Vítězslav Veselý | Men's javelin throw | 8 | $183,000 |
| 131 | Ferguson Rotich | two disciplines | 5 | $181,750 |
| 132 | Bershawn Jackson | two disciplines | 9 | $181,500 |
| 133 | Emmanuel Korir | two disciplines | 6 | $181,500 |
| 134 | Janieve Russell | Women's 400 m hurdles | 3 | $180,500 |
| 135 | Beatrice Chebet | three disciplines | 11 | $180,250 |
| 136 | Christina Obergföll | Women's javelin throw | 12 | $179,000 |
| 137 | Fedrick Dacres | Men's discus throw | 6 | $178,750 |
| 138 | Tianna Bartoletta | two disciplines | 8 | $177,750 |
| 139 | Larissa Iapichino | Women's long jump | 6 | $177,500 |
| 140 | Sally Pearson | Women's 100 m hurdles | 7 | $172,500 |
| 141 | Usain Bolt | two disciplines | 16 | $172,000 |
| 142 | Andriy Protsenko | Men's high jump | 3 | $171,250 |
| 143 | Emmanouil Karalis | Men's pole vault | 3 | $170,875 |
| 144 | Keely Hodgkinson | two disciplines | 9 | $170,500 |
| 145 | Marcin Lewandowski | four disciplines | 2 | $170,500 |
| 146 | Sarah Mitton | Women's shot put | 3 | $170,250 |
| 147 | Yuliya Levchenko | Women's high jump | 1 | $169,125 |
| 148 | Aaron Brown | two disciplines | 2 | $167,000 |
| 149 | Abeba Aregawi | four disciplines | 12 | $166,000 |
| 150 | David Rudisha | Men's 800 m | 14 | $166,000 |
| 151 | Neeraj Chopra | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $165,500 |
| 152 | Will Claye | two disciplines | 4 | $164,750 |
| 153 | Hansle Parchment | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $164,000 |
| 154 | Selemon Barega | four disciplines | 5 | $163,750 |
| 155 | Eunice Sum | two disciplines | 11 | $162,500 |
| 156 | Andrius Gudžius | Men's discus throw | 2 | $162,000 |
| 157 | Marco Arop | two disciplines | 5 | $162,000 |
| 158 | Anderson Peters | Men's javelin throw | 7 | $161,000 |
| 159 | Konstantinos Filippidis | Men's pole vault | 6 | $161,000 |
| 160 | Julian Weber | Men's javelin throw | 4 | $160,750 |
| 161 | Norah Jeruto | two disciplines | 6 | $160,750 |
| 162 | Tajay Gayle | Men's long jump | 4 | $160,250 |
| 163 | Sunette Viljoen | Women's javelin throw | 4 | $160,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Emmanouil Karalis is 143rd of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $170,875.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Emmanouil Karalis most
AG Memorial Van Damme 2026 paid $30,000 for 1st in the pole vault, one of six in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Sondre Guttormsen, Kurtis Marschall, Sam Kendricks, Baptiste Thiery and Ben Broeders.
Doha Diamond League 2026 paid $20,000 for 1st in the pole vault, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Chris Nilsen, Sondre Guttormsen, Sam Kendricks, KC Lightfoot, Seif Heneida and Menno Vloon.
Weltklasse Zürich 2025 paid $20,000 for 2nd in the pole vault, one of five in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Sam Kendricks, Kurtis Marschall, Menno Vloon and Armand Duplantis.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Emmanouil Karalis won?
$170,875, which ranks 143rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 22 paid finishes between 2017 and 2026.
What is Emmanouil Karalis's biggest Diamond League payday?
$30,000, for finishing 1st in the pole vault at the 2026 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 Emmanouil Karalis 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 win is worth the same in the men's pole vault 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 Emmanouil Karalis won?
Three of 24, worth $60,000 between them. Three of his appearances came at a final, which paid $62,000.
Has Emmanouil Karalis 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.
How much did Emmanouil Karalis win at the 2025 World Championships?
$35,000, from one paid final in Tokyo. The championships pay eight places in every event, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th.
How much did Emmanouil Karalis win at the Ultimate Championship?
$75,000, from one paid final at the 2026 championship in Budapest. World Athletics pays $150,000 for a win there, $75,000 for second and $40,000 for third, the same in all 26 individual events.
How much has Emmanouil Karalis won at the World Indoor Championships?
$40,000, from two paid finals across Toruń 2026 and Nanjing 2025. 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.
Is this everything Emmanouil Karalis earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Championships, Ultimate Championship and World Indoor Championships 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 3,683 athletes across the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Emmanouil Karalis is Andriy Protsenko on $171,250, and one below Keely Hodgkinson on $170,500. Emmanouil Karalis is one of 18 Greece athletes athletics has paid, and Greece athletics prize money adds them up to $1,638,125 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's pole vault prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Emmanouil Karalis has been paid in one of them. The biggest of the rest are men's 100 m, men's 800 m and men's 200 m. Every meeting he has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and AG Memorial Van Damme has its own page across every edition of it. Away from the series, World Championships prize money is Tokyo 2025, $8,498,000 paid eight places deep in every event, and the full final is on the men's pole vault page. Ultimate Championship prize money is the 2026 championship in Budapest, $10,000,000 over three days, and the full final is on the men's pole vault page. Indoor championships prize money is the Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026 championships, $4,664,000 put up across 53 finals, and the indoor final is on the men's pole vault page.