Huang Bokai prize money
Huang Bokai has been paid $12,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1454th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from seven 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 | - |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2018 | Pole vault | =6th | $1,750 |
| IAAF Diamond League Shanghai 2018 | Pole vault | 8th | $1,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2018 | Pole vault | 8th | $1,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2016 | Pole vault | 6th | $2,000 |
| All ten | Men's pole vault | - | $12,500 |
The seven paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $12,500 is seven 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. Three of the ten starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Season by season
2016 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | - | Bauhausgalan | $2,000 |
| 2017 | - | - | - | - |
| 2018 | 3 | - | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $3,750 |
| 2019 | - | - | - | - |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $12,500.
Around Huang Bokai on the money list
Ranks 1434 to 1474
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1434 | Phylicia George | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $13,000 |
| 1435 | Renny Quow | Men's 400 m | - | $13,000 |
| 1436 | Stacey-Ann Williams | Women's 400 m | - | $13,000 |
| 1437 | Vincent Ciattei | two disciplines | - | $13,000 |
| 1438 | Xiongfeng Su | Men's long jump | - | $13,000 |
| 1439 | Yuneysi Santiusti | Women's 800 m | - | $13,000 |
| 1440 | Xingjuan Zheng | Women's high jump | - | $12,833 |
| 1441 | Aminatou Seyni | two disciplines | - | $12,750 |
| 1442 | Iryna Zhuk | Women's pole vault | - | $12,750 |
| 1443 | Joshua Hartmann | two disciplines | - | $12,750 |
| 1444 | Przemysław Czerwiński | Men's pole vault | - | $12,750 |
| 1445 | Mathew Sawe | Men's high jump | - | $12,667 |
| 1446 | Damiel Dossevi | Men's pole vault | - | $12,583 |
| 1447 | Ahmed Bader Magour | Men's javelin throw | - | $12,500 |
| 1448 | Antoine Gakeme | two disciplines | - | $12,500 |
| 1449 | Christania Williams | Women's 100 m | - | $12,500 |
| 1450 | Cory McGee | two disciplines | - | $12,500 |
| 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 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Huang Bokai is 1454th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $12,500.
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.
Bauhausgalan 2016 paid $2,000 for 6th in the pole vault, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Konstantinos Filippidis, Paweł Wojciechowski, Renaud Lavillenie, Shawn Barber, Mareks Ārents and Stanley Joseph.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Huang Bokai won?
$12,500, which ranks 1454th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from seven paid finishes between 2016 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. Those starts 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 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 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 Huang Bokai is Hind Dehiba Chahyd on $12,500, and one below Jaydon Hibbert on $12,500. Huang Bokai is one of 114 China athletes athletics has paid, and China athletics prize money adds them up to $1,813,250 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.