Fausto Desalu prize money
Fausto Desalu has been paid $12,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1471st of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from ten paid finishes in the men's 200 m, 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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2024 | 200 m | 8th | $500 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2023 | 200 m | 7th | $750 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2022 | 200 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Meeting de Paris 2022 | 200 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2022 | 200 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2022 | 200 m | 8th | $500 |
| Bislett Games 2021 | 200 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| Athletissima 2021 | 200 m | 7th | $750 |
| Meeting de Paris 2021 | 200 m | 7th | $750 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2016 | 200 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| All ten | Men's 200 m | - | $12,000 |
The ten paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $12,000 is ten 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.
The World Athletics Relays
What Fausto Desalu ran on
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 4 × 100 metres relay | 5th | 38.20 | $6,000 |
The World Relays have paid $6,000 for the one team Fausto Desalu ran on in Guangzhou 2025, and all of it went to Italy rather than to the four who ran. The $12,000 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. No team he ran on won its final, and the ladder paid the teams anyway: it reaches all eight teams in a final, $40,000 for a title down to $2,000 for 8th, so reaching one is the run that pays. He ran alongside Filippo Tortu, and the Diamond League has paid them too. The World Relays page holds all 12 finals across two championships and the $1,067,000 they paid out.
Season by season
2016 to 2024, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | - | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $1,000 |
| 2017 | - | - | - | - |
| 2018 | - | - | - | - |
| 2019 | - | - | - | - |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 3 | - | Bislett Games | $3,500 |
| 2022 | 4 | - | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $6,250 |
| 2023 | 1 | - | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $750 |
| 2024 | 1 | - | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $500 |
season running total
2022 is the biggest of them, $6,250 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Fausto Desalu in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $12,000.
Around Fausto Desalu on the money list
Ranks 1451 to 1491
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1451 | Emebet Anteneh | two disciplines | - | $12,500 |
| 1452 | Franck Elemba | Men's shot put | - | $12,500 |
| 1453 | Hind Dehiba Chahyd | two disciplines | - | $12,500 |
| 1454 | Huang Bokai | Men's pole vault | - | $12,500 |
| 1455 | Jaydon Hibbert | Men's triple jump | - | $12,500 |
| 1456 | Katie Mackey | two disciplines | 1 | $12,500 |
| 1457 | Kethobogile Haingura | two disciplines | - | $12,500 |
| 1458 | Lachlan Kennedy | Men's 100 m | - | $12,500 |
| 1459 | Misleydis González | Women's shot put | - | $12,500 |
| 1460 | Rachel Buciarski | Women's javelin throw | - | $12,500 |
| 1461 | Robert Farken | two disciplines | - | $12,500 |
| 1462 | Sule Utura | Women's 5000 m | - | $12,500 |
| 1463 | Verena Sailer | Women's 100 m | - | $12,500 |
| 1464 | Yaroslav Rybakov | Men's high jump | - | $12,500 |
| 1465 | Annik Kälin | two disciplines | - | $12,000 |
| 1466 | Bram Som | Men's 800 m | - | $12,000 |
| 1467 | Danil Lysenko | Men's high jump | 2 | $12,000 |
| 1468 | Darvis Patton | two disciplines | - | $12,000 |
| 1469 | Emily Mackay | two disciplines | - | $12,000 |
| 1470 | Fatih Avan | Men's javelin throw | - | $12,000 |
| 1471 | Fausto Desalu | Men's 200 m | - | $12,000 |
| 1472 | Isaac Kimeli | Men's 5000 m | 1 | $12,000 |
| 1473 | Kena Tufa | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $12,000 |
| 1474 | Kristina Gadschiew | Women's pole vault | - | $12,000 |
| 1475 | Lalonde Gordon | Men's 400 m | - | $12,000 |
| 1476 | LaQuan Nairn | Men's long jump | 1 | $12,000 |
| 1477 | Lerone Clarke | Men's 100 m | - | $12,000 |
| 1478 | Lexy Halladay-Lowry | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $12,000 |
| 1479 | Lina Nielsen | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $12,000 |
| 1480 | Luka Janežič | Men's 400 m | - | $12,000 |
| 1481 | Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas | Men's 200 m | - | $12,000 |
| 1482 | Milica Gardašević | Women's long jump | - | $12,000 |
| 1483 | Nery Brenes | two disciplines | - | $12,000 |
| 1484 | Rouguy Diallo | Women's triple jump | - | $12,000 |
| 1485 | Xu Zhuoyi | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $12,000 |
| 1486 | Yemane Haileselassie | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $12,000 |
| 1487 | Damian Czykier | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $11,750 |
| 1488 | Elise Cranny | four disciplines | - | $11,750 |
| 1489 | Ersu Şaşma | Men's pole vault | - | $11,750 |
| 1490 | Fabian Schulze | Men's pole vault | - | $11,750 |
| 1491 | Marija Vuković | Women's high jump | - | $11,750 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Fausto Desalu is 1471st of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $12,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Fausto Desalu most
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2022 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 200 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Yancarlos Martínez, Jerome Blake, Isaac Makwala, William Reais, Mehdi Takordmioui and Kenny Bednarek.
Bislett Games 2021 paid $2,000 for 4th in the 200 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Vernon Norwood, Mouhamadou Fall, Alex Wilson, Mathias Hove Johansen, Andre De Grasse and Aaron Brown.
Meeting de Paris 2022 paid $1,250 for 5th in the 200 m, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Yancarlos Martínez, Benjamin Azamati, Luxolo Adams, Alexander Ogando, Mouhamadou Fall and Andre De Grasse.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Fausto Desalu won?
$12,000, which ranks 1471st of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from ten paid finishes between 2016 and 2024.
What is Fausto Desalu's biggest Diamond League payday?
$3,500, for finishing 3rd in the 200 m at the 2022 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat. 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 Fausto Desalu 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 200 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.
What did Fausto Desalu's World Relays teams win?
$6,000, 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 Fausto Desalu 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 Fausto Desalu 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 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 Fausto Desalu is Fatih Avan on $12,000, and one below Isaac Kimeli on $12,000. Fausto Desalu is one of 107 Italy athletes athletics has paid, and Italy athletics prize money adds them up to $2,487,342 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 200 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Fausto Desalu has been paid in one 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 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 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 men's 4 × 100 metres relay page.