Gabriela DeBues-Stafford prize money
Gabriela DeBues-Stafford has been paid $40,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 745th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from eleven paid finishes in the women's 1500 m, women's mile and women's 5000 m, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prefontaine Classic 2026 | 2 miles | 10th | - |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2023 | 1500 m | 12th | - |
| Bislett Games 2023 | Mile | 13th | - |
| Prefontaine Classic 2022 | 1500 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2021 | 1500 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2021 | 1500 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2021 | 3000 m | 10th | - |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2019 | 1500 m | 3rd | $10,000 |
| Müller Grand Prix Birmingham 2019 | Mile | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Herculis 2019 | Mile | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Müller Anniversary Games 2019 | 1500 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2019 | 5000 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2019 | 5000 m | 7th | $3,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2019 | 1500 m | 5th | $2,500 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2019 | 1500 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| All fifteen | five disciplines | - | $40,000 |
The eleven paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $40,000 is eleven separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.04% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Four of the fifteen starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Gabriela DeBues-Stafford did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 1500 metres | 11th | 3:59.65 | - |
Gabriela DeBues-Stafford stood in one 2025 World Championships final in Tokyo and finished outside the money. The championships pay eight places, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th, and nothing at all below that. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Gabriela DeBues-Stafford
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 1500 m | 8 | - | 2019 to 2023 | $24,000 |
| Women's mile | 3 | - | 2019 to 2023 | $10,000 |
| Women's 5000 m | 2 | - | 2019 | $6,000 |
| Women's 2 miles | 1 | - | 2026 | $0 |
| Women's 3000 m | 1 | - | 2021 | $0 |
The women's 1500 m has paid Gabriela DeBues-Stafford $24,000 of the $40,000, which is 60% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2019 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 8 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $33,500 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 3 | - | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $3,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $3,500 |
| 2023 | 2 | - | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | - |
| 2024 | - | - | - | - |
| 2025 | - | - | - | - |
| 2026 | 1 | - | Prefontaine Classic | - |
season running total
2019 is the biggest of them, $33,500 from eight starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Gabriela DeBues-Stafford in 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $40,000.
Around Gabriela DeBues-Stafford on the money list
Ranks 725 to 765
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 725 | Andrey Silnov | Men's high jump | 1 | $41,000 |
| 726 | Christopher Bailey | Men's 400 m | 1 | $41,000 |
| 727 | Jordan Geist | Men's shot put | 1 | $41,000 |
| 728 | Mark English | Men's 800 m | 1 | $41,000 |
| 729 | Mbulaeni Mulaudzi | Men's 800 m | 1 | $41,000 |
| 730 | Yuliya Leantsiuk | Women's shot put | - | $41,000 |
| 731 | Zinaida Sendriutė | Women's discus throw | - | $41,000 |
| 732 | Jarrion Lawson | Men's long jump | 1 | $40,750 |
| 733 | Pia Skrzyszowska | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $40,750 |
| 734 | Quanera Hayes | Women's 400 m | 1 | $40,750 |
| 735 | Sara Kolak | Women's javelin throw | 1 | $40,750 |
| 736 | Leonard Bett | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $40,500 |
| 737 | Vadims Vasiļevskis | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $40,500 |
| 738 | Almir dos Santos | Men's triple jump | - | $40,250 |
| 739 | Akeem Bloomfield | Men's 400 m | 3 | $40,000 |
| 740 | Aleshign Baweke | three disciplines | 1 | $40,000 |
| 741 | Brandon McBride | Men's 800 m | - | $40,000 |
| 742 | Bryce Hoppel | two disciplines | - | $40,000 |
| 743 | Christine Mboma | Women's 200 m | 2 | $40,000 |
| 744 | Claire Bryant | Women's long jump | - | $40,000 |
| 745 | Gabriela DeBues-Stafford | five disciplines | - | $40,000 |
| 746 | Isabella Whittaker | Women's 400 m | 2 | $40,000 |
| 747 | Jan Kudlička | Men's pole vault | - | $40,000 |
| 748 | Margaret Wambui | Women's 800 m | - | $40,000 |
| 749 | Nadine Kleinert | Women's shot put | - | $40,000 |
| 750 | Petr Frydrych | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $40,000 |
| 751 | Xiang Liu | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $40,000 |
| 752 | Zarck Visser | Men's long jump | 1 | $40,000 |
| 753 | Amine Laalou | three disciplines | 1 | $39,500 |
| 754 | Cindy Sember | Women's 100 m hurdles | 2 | $39,500 |
| 755 | Josh Hoey | two disciplines | 1 | $39,500 |
| 756 | Pamela Jelimo | Women's 800 m | 2 | $39,500 |
| 757 | Youssef Ahmed Masrahi | Men's 400 m | 1 | $39,500 |
| 758 | Shiann Salmon | Women's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $39,250 |
| 759 | Halima Hachlaf | Women's 800 m | 2 | $39,000 |
| 760 | Kim Amb | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $39,000 |
| 761 | Leonel Manzano | three disciplines | 1 | $39,000 |
| 762 | Paul Chelimo | three disciplines | 1 | $39,000 |
| 763 | Bryce Deadmon | Men's 400 m | - | $38,750 |
| 764 | Candice McLeod | Women's 400 m | - | $38,750 |
| 765 | Romain Mesnil | Men's pole vault | 1 | $38,583 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Gabriela DeBues-Stafford is 745th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $40,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Gabriela DeBues-Stafford most
Weltklasse Zürich 2019 paid $10,000 for 3rd in the 1500 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Genzebe Dibaba, Winnie Nanyondo, Winny Chebet, Rababe Arafi, Jenny Simpson and Gudaf Tsegay.
Müller Grand Prix Birmingham 2019 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the mile, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Eilish McColgan, Linden Hall, Jessica Hull, Jemma Reekie, Elle Purrier St. Pierre and Axumawit Embaye.
Herculis 2019 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the mile, one of twelve in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Gudaf Tsegay, Rababe Arafi, Axumawit Embaye, Winnie Nanyondo, Ciara Mageean and Alemaz Samuel.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Gabriela DeBues-Stafford won?
$40,000, which ranks 745th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from eleven paid finishes between 2019 and 2026.
What is Gabriela DeBues-Stafford's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 3rd in the 1500 m at the 2019 Weltklasse Zürich. 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 Gabriela DeBues-Stafford 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 1500 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.
Has Gabriela DeBues-Stafford ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Four 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 Gabriela DeBues-Stafford 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 Gabriela DeBues-Stafford is Claire Bryant on $40,000, and one below Isabella Whittaker on $40,000. Gabriela DeBues-Stafford is one of 70 Canada athletes athletics has paid, and Canada athletics prize money adds them up to $2,287,458 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 1500 m prize money, women's mile prize money, women's 5000 m prize money, women's 2 miles prize money and women's 3000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Gabriela DeBues-Stafford has been paid in five 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 Prefontaine Classic 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 women's 1500 metres page.