Ignacio Fontes prize money
Ignacio Fontes has been paid $10,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1575th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from four paid finishes in the men's 1500 m and men'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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2025 | 1500 m | 16th | - |
| Bislett Games 2022 | Mile | 6th | $1,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2022 | 1500 m | 10th | - |
| Birmingham Diamond League 2022 | 1500 m | 10th | - |
| Prefontaine Classic 2022 | Mile | 10th | - |
| Bauhausgalan 2021 | 1500 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Müller Grand Prix Gateshead 2021 | 1500 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2021 | 1500 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| Bislett Games 2021 | Mile | 10th | - |
| All nine | two disciplines | - | $10,000 |
The four paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $10,000 is four 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. Five of the nine starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Ignacio Fontes
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 1500 m | 6 | - | 2021 to 2025 | $9,000 |
| Men's mile | 3 | - | 2021 to 2022 | $1,000 |
The men's 1500 m has paid Ignacio Fontes $9,000 of the $10,000, which is 90% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2021 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | - | Bauhausgalan | $9,000 |
| 2022 | 4 | - | Bislett Games | $1,000 |
| 2023 | - | - | - | - |
| 2024 | - | - | - | - |
| 2025 | 1 | - | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | - |
season running total
2021 is the biggest of them, $9,000 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Ignacio Fontes in 2023, 2024 and 2025, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $10,000.
Around Ignacio Fontes on the money list
Ranks 1555 to 1595
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1555 | Edwin Kurgat | two disciplines | - | $10,500 |
| 1556 | Genki Dean | Men's javelin throw | - | $10,500 |
| 1557 | Jarmila Jurkovičová | Women's javelin throw | - | $10,500 |
| 1558 | Javianne Oliver | Women's 100 m | - | $10,500 |
| 1559 | Jeremiah Kipkorir Mutai | Men's 800 m | - | $10,500 |
| 1560 | Nadine Hildebrand | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $10,500 |
| 1561 | Nataliya Lupu | Women's 800 m | - | $10,500 |
| 1562 | Yuki Hashioka | Men's long jump | - | $10,500 |
| 1563 | Antonio Manuel Reina | Men's 800 m | - | $10,250 |
| 1564 | Hendrik Gruber | Men's pole vault | - | $10,250 |
| 1565 | Malik James-King | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $10,250 |
| 1566 | Marike Steinacker | Women's discus throw | - | $10,250 |
| 1567 | Adaejah Hodge | two disciplines | - | $10,000 |
| 1568 | Apostolos Parellis | Men's discus throw | - | $10,000 |
| 1569 | Ashley Higginson | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $10,000 |
| 1570 | Chris Solinsky | Men's 5000 m | - | $10,000 |
| 1571 | Edgar Rivera | Men's high jump | - | $10,000 |
| 1572 | Geoffrey Kamworor | Men's 5000 m | - | $10,000 |
| 1573 | Hannah Nuttall | two disciplines | - | $10,000 |
| 1574 | Hicham Sigueni | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $10,000 |
| 1575 | Ignacio Fontes | two disciplines | - | $10,000 |
| 1576 | Irine Chepet Cheptai | Women's 5000 m | - | $10,000 |
| 1577 | Jessika Gbai | Women's 200 m | - | $10,000 |
| 1578 | Jhon Murillo | Men's triple jump | - | $10,000 |
| 1579 | Jonah Koech | Men's 1500 m | 1 | $10,000 |
| 1580 | Josanne Lucas | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $10,000 |
| 1581 | Lauren Fleshman | Women's 5000 m | 1 | $10,000 |
| 1582 | Lauren Wells | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $10,000 |
| 1583 | Liina Laasma | Women's javelin throw | - | $10,000 |
| 1584 | Marta García | four disciplines | - | $10,000 |
| 1585 | Matthew Wilkinson | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $10,000 |
| 1586 | Mikhail Akimenko | Men's high jump | 1 | $10,000 |
| 1587 | Noah Kibet | Men's 800 m | 1 | $10,000 |
| 1588 | Olha Zemlyak | Women's 400 m | - | $10,000 |
| 1589 | Pavel Shalin | Men's long jump | - | $10,000 |
| 1590 | Pieter Conradie | Men's 400 m | - | $10,000 |
| 1591 | Rutger Smith | two disciplines | - | $10,000 |
| 1592 | Stephanie Twell | two disciplines | - | $10,000 |
| 1593 | Tate Taylor | Men's 200 m | 1 | $10,000 |
| 1594 | Yadisleidy Pedroso | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $10,000 |
| 1595 | Yasemin Can | two disciplines | - | $10,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Ignacio Fontes is 1575th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $10,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Ignacio Fontes most
Bauhausgalan 2021 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 1500 m, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Ronald Kwemoi, Ronald Musagala, Musab Adam Ali, Bethwell Birgen, Brahim Kaazouzi and Josh Thompson.
Müller Grand Prix Gateshead 2021 paid $2,000 for 4th in the 1500 m, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Matthew Ramsden, Archie Davis, George Mills, Musab Adam Ali, Ryan Gregson and Thomas Keen.
Bislett Games 2022 paid $1,000 for 6th in the mile, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Michał Rozmys, Samuel Abate, Ferdinand Kvan Edman, Matthew Ramsden, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Oliver Hoare.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Ignacio Fontes won?
$10,000, which ranks 1575th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from four paid finishes between 2021 and 2025.
What is Ignacio Fontes's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the 1500 m at the 2021 Bauhausgalan. 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 Ignacio Fontes 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 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 Ignacio Fontes ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Five 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 Ignacio Fontes 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 Ignacio Fontes is Hicham Sigueni on $10,000, and one below Irine Chepet Cheptai on $10,000. Ignacio Fontes is one of 72 Spain athletes athletics has paid, and Spain athletics prize money adds them up to $1,462,000 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 1500 m prize money and men's mile prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Ignacio Fontes has been paid in two 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 Golden Gala Pietro Mennea has its own page across every edition of it.