Huang Bokai prize money
Huang Bokai has been paid $6,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 984th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from three paid finishes in the men's pole vault, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shanghai Diamond League 2026 | Pole vault | 6th | $2,000 |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2025 | Pole vault | 10th | — |
| Diamond League Shanghai 2025 | Pole vault | 9th | — |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2024 | Pole vault | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Diamond League Shanghai 2024 | Pole vault | 5th | $1,250 |
| Meeting de Paris 2022 | Pole vault | 10th | — |
| All six | Men's pole vault | — | $6,750 |
The three paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $6,750 is three separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.01% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. Three of the six starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Season by season
2022 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | — | Meeting de Paris | — |
| 2023 | — | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 2 | — | Xiamen Diamond League | $4,750 |
| 2025 | 2 | — | Xiamen Diamond League | — |
| 2026 | 1 | — | Shanghai Diamond League | $2,000 |
season running total
2024 is the biggest of them, $4,750 from two starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Huang Bokai in 2022, 2023 and 2025, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $6,750.
Around Huang Bokai on the money list
Ranks 964 to 1004
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 964 | Dai Qianqian | Women's javelin throw | — | $7,000 |
| 965 | Gerson Baldé | Men's long jump | — | $7,000 |
| 966 | Kemar Mowatt | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $7,000 |
| 967 | Ky Robinson | two disciplines | — | $7,000 |
| 968 | Luka Janežič | Men's 400 m | — | $7,000 |
| 969 | Marie-Julie Bonnin | Women's pole vault | — | $7,000 |
| 970 | Minke Bisschops | two disciplines | — | $7,000 |
| 971 | Murali Sreeshankar | Men's long jump | — | $7,000 |
| 972 | Natalia Linares | Women's long jump | — | $7,000 |
| 973 | Purity Cherotich Kirui | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $7,000 |
| 974 | Ruth Jebet | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $7,000 |
| 975 | Simone Facey | Women's 200 m | — | $7,000 |
| 976 | Tobias Potye | Men's high jump | — | $7,000 |
| 977 | William Reais | Men's 200 m | — | $7,000 |
| 978 | Yuliya Leantsiuk | Women's shot put | — | $7,000 |
| 979 | Avinash Sable | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $6,750 |
| 980 | Benjamin Gföhler | Men's long jump | — | $6,750 |
| 981 | Chris Baker | Men's high jump | — | $6,750 |
| 982 | Emily Borthwick | Women's high jump | — | $6,750 |
| 983 | Gabriel Constantino | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $6,750 |
| 984 | Huang Bokai | Men's pole vault | — | $6,750 |
| 985 | Jarrion Lawson | Men's long jump | — | $6,750 |
| 986 | Kaylin Whitney | Women's 400 m | — | $6,750 |
| 987 | Marvin Bracy | Men's 100 m | — | $6,750 |
| 988 | Melissa Courtney-Bryant | two disciplines | — | $6,750 |
| 989 | Michelle-Lee Ahye | Women's 100 m | — | $6,750 |
| 990 | Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake | two disciplines | — | $6,750 |
| 991 | Abdelati El Guesse | Men's 800 m | — | $6,500 |
| 992 | Andrew Butchart | two disciplines | — | $6,500 |
| 993 | Bryan Levell | Men's 200 m | — | $6,500 |
| 994 | Chris Robinson | two disciplines | — | $6,500 |
| 995 | Christopher Morales Williams | Men's 400 m | — | $6,500 |
| 996 | Claudia Hollingsworth | two disciplines | — | $6,500 |
| 997 | Daniel Segers | Men's 400 m | — | $6,500 |
| 998 | Edgar Rivera | Men's high jump | — | $6,500 |
| 999 | Ehsan Hadadi | Men's discus throw | — | $6,500 |
| 1000 | Fátima Diame | Women's long jump | — | $6,500 |
| 1001 | Helen Schlachtenhaufen | two disciplines | — | $6,500 |
| 1002 | Josh Awotunde | Men's shot put | — | $6,500 |
| 1003 | Kemi Adekoya | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $6,500 |
| 1004 | Kristin Gierisch | Women's triple jump | — | $6,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Huang Bokai is 984th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $6,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Huang Bokai most
Xiamen Diamond League 2024 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the pole vault, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Austin Miller, Zhong Tao, Ben Broeders, Chris Nilsen, Jacob Wooten and Armand Duplantis.
Shanghai Diamond League 2026 paid $2,000 for 6th in the pole vault, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Emmanouil Karalis, Li Chenyang, Zach Bradford, Armand Duplantis, Kurtis Marschall and Thibaut Collet.
Diamond League Shanghai 2024 paid $1,250 for 5th in the pole vault, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Chris Nilsen, Austin Miller, Yao Jie, Bo Kanda Lita Baehre, Armand Duplantis and Ben Broeders.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Huang Bokai won?
$6,750, which ranks 984th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from three paid finishes between 2022 and 2026.
What is Huang Bokai's biggest Diamond League payday?
$3,500, for finishing 3rd in the pole vault at the 2024 Xiamen Diamond League. 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 Huang Bokai 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 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.
Has Huang Bokai ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Three 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. He are in the result tables on this site either way.
Is this everything Huang Bokai 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 him, 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 Huang Bokai is Gabriel Constantino on $6,750, and one below Jarrion Lawson on $6,750. Huang Bokai is one of 47 China athletes athletics has paid, and China athletics prize money adds them up to $899,167 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 Huang Bokai 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 Shanghai Diamond League has its own page across every edition of it.