Heather MacLean prize money
Heather MacLean has been paid $19,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 610th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from seven paid finishes in the women's 1500 m and women's mile, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2026 | 1500 m | 12th | — |
| Prefontaine Classic 2026 | Mile | 12th | — |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2025 | 1500 m | 4th | $5,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2025 | 1500 m | 5th | $2,500 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2025 | 1500 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2025 | 1500 m | 11th | — |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2025 | 1500 m | 10th | — |
| Herculis 2022 | 1500 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2022 | 1500 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2022 | 1500 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2022 | 1500 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Herculis EBS 2021 | 1500 m | 10th | — |
| Müller Grand Prix Birmingham 2019 | Mile | 9th | — |
| All thirteen | two disciplines | — | $19,250 |
The seven paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $19,250 is seven separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.04% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. Six of the thirteen starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Indoor Championships
What Heather MacLean did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 1500 metres | 7th | 4:05.45 | — |
Heather MacLean stood in one World Indoor Championships final and finished outside the money. The championships pay six places, $40,000 for a title down to $4,000 for 6th, and nothing at all below that. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Heather MacLean
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 1500 m | 11 | — | 2021 to 2026 | $19,250 |
| Women's mile | 2 | — | 2019 to 2026 | $0 |
The women's 1500 m has paid Heather MacLean $19,250 of the $19,250, which is 100% 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 | 1 | — | Müller Grand Prix Birmingham | — |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 1 | — | Herculis EBS | — |
| 2022 | 4 | — | Herculis | $10,750 |
| 2023 | — | — | — | — |
| 2024 | — | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 5 | — | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $8,500 |
| 2026 | 2 | — | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | — |
season running total
2022 is the biggest of them, $10,750 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Heather MacLean in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $19,250.
Around Heather MacLean on the money list
Ranks 590 to 630
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 590 | Hyvin Kiyeng | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $20,000 |
| 591 | Jacob Kiplimo | three disciplines | — | $20,000 |
| 592 | Katarina Johnson-Thompson | Women's long jump | — | $20,000 |
| 593 | Kemba Nelson | Women's 100 m | 1 | $20,000 |
| 594 | Rusheen McDonald | Men's 400 m | 1 | $20,000 |
| 595 | Salaheddine Ben Yazide | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $20,000 |
| 596 | Marcell Jacobs | Men's 100 m | — | $19,750 |
| 597 | Mélina Robert-Michon | Women's discus throw | — | $19,750 |
| 598 | Rose Davies | two disciplines | — | $19,750 |
| 599 | Victoria Hudson | Women's javelin throw | — | $19,750 |
| 600 | Maria Żodzik | Women's high jump | 1 | $19,667 |
| 601 | Tihomir Ivanov | Men's high jump | — | $19,625 |
| 602 | Brandon McBride | Men's 800 m | — | $19,500 |
| 603 | David Kendziera | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $19,500 |
| 604 | Emil Agyekum | two disciplines | — | $19,500 |
| 605 | Jacious Sears | Women's 100 m | — | $19,500 |
| 606 | Maddi Wesche | Women's shot put | — | $19,500 |
| 607 | Shanice Craft | Women's discus throw | — | $19,500 |
| 608 | Dylan Beard | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $19,250 |
| 609 | Fantu Worku | two disciplines | — | $19,250 |
| 610 | Heather MacLean | two disciplines | — | $19,250 |
| 611 | Lisanne de Witte | Women's 400 m | — | $19,250 |
| 612 | Oliver Helander | Men's javelin throw | — | $19,250 |
| 613 | Christoph Harting | Men's discus throw | — | $19,000 |
| 614 | Cole Walsh | Men's pole vault | — | $19,000 |
| 615 | Jasmine Jones | two disciplines | — | $19,000 |
| 616 | Luvo Manyonga | Men's long jump | — | $19,000 |
| 617 | Parker Wolfe | two disciplines | 1 | $19,000 |
| 618 | Robert Gregory | Men's 200 m | — | $19,000 |
| 619 | Lamara Distin | Women's high jump | — | $18,750 |
| 620 | Léa Sprunger | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $18,750 |
| 621 | Mekides Abebe | two disciplines | — | $18,750 |
| 622 | Zerfe Wondemagegn | two disciplines | — | $18,750 |
| 623 | Courtney Frerichs | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $18,500 |
| 624 | Tomáš Staněk | Men's shot put | — | $18,500 |
| 625 | Bethwell Birgen | four disciplines | — | $18,250 |
| 626 | Laviai Nielsen | Women's 400 m | — | $18,250 |
| 627 | Paweł Wojciechowski | Men's pole vault | — | $18,250 |
| 628 | Susan Ejore | Women's 1500 m | — | $18,250 |
| 629 | Timothé Mumenthaler | two disciplines | — | $18,250 |
| 630 | Worknesh Mesele | three disciplines | — | $18,250 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Heather MacLean is 610th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $19,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Heather MacLean most
Herculis 2022 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 1500 m, one of twelve in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Elise Cranny, Hirut Meshesha, Cory McGee, Winnie Nanyondo, Georgia Griffith and Jessica Hull.
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2025 paid $5,000 for 4th in the 1500 m, one of fifteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Susan Ejore, Águeda Marqués, Agathe Guillemot, Marta Zenoni, Saron Berhe and Katie Snowden.
Weltklasse Zürich 2025 paid $2,500 for 5th in the 1500 m, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Susan Ejore, Birke Haylom, Sarah Healy, Agathe Guillemot, Marta Zenoni and Nelly Chepchirchir.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Heather MacLean won?
$19,250, which ranks 610th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from seven paid finishes between 2019 and 2026.
What is Heather MacLean's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the 1500 m at the 2022 Herculis. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 2nd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Heather MacLean 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 Heather MacLean ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Six 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. She are in the result tables on this site either way.
Is this everything Heather MacLean earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 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 2,112 athletes across the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Heather MacLean is Fantu Worku on $19,250, and one below Lisanne de Witte on $19,250. Heather MacLean is one of 352 United States athletes athletics has paid, and United States athletics prize money adds them up to $16,292,792 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 1500 m prize money and women's mile prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Heather MacLean has been paid in two of them. The biggest of the rest are women's 100 m, women's 100 m hurdles and women's 800 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Golden Gala Pietro Mennea has its own page across every edition of it. 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 women's 1500 metres page.