Jan Štefela prize money
Jan Štefela has been paid $15,958 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1298th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from nine paid finishes in the men's high jump, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doha Diamond League 2026 | High jump | 7th | $1,500 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2026 | High jump | 8th | $1,000 |
| Herculis EBS 2026 | High jump | =8th | $333 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2026 | High jump | 10th | - |
| Herculis EBS 2025 | High jump | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2025 | High jump | 6th | $2,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2025 | High jump | 8th | $1,500 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2025 | High jump | 10th | - |
| London Athletics Meet 2024 | High jump | 4th | $2,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2024 | High jump | 6th | $1,000 |
| Herculis 2024 | High jump | =7th | $625 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2024 | High jump | 11th | - |
| All twelve | Men's high jump | - | $15,958 |
The nine paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $15,958 is nine 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 twelve starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Jan Štefela did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's high jump | 3rd | 2.31 m | $22,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Jan Štefela $22,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $15,958 from twelve Diamond League starts between 2024 and 2026. Nine days there paid him more than any whole Diamond League season has. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The Ultimate Championship
What Jan Štefela did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's high jump | 7th | 2.17 m | - |
Jan Štefela stood in one Ultimate Championship final in Budapest and finished outside the money. World Athletics pays the first three in each event, $150,000, $75,000 and $40,000, and publishes no rate below third, so there is no figure to put against where he finished. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
The World Indoor Championships
What Jan Štefela did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's high jump | 6th | 2.26 | $4,000 |
| Men's high jump | =9th | 2.14 | - |
The World Indoor Championships have paid Jan Štefela $4,000 for one finish in Toruń 2026, against $15,958 from twelve Diamond League starts between 2024 and 2026. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
Season by season
2024 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | - | London Athletics Meet | $3,625 |
| 2025 | 4 | - | Herculis EBS | $9,500 |
| 2026 | 4 | - | Doha Diamond League | $2,833 |
season running total
2025 is the biggest of them, $9,500 from four starts. Every season from 2024 to 2026 paid him something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $15,958.
Around Jan Štefela on the money list
Ranks 1278 to 1318
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1278 | Baptiste Thiery | Men's pole vault | - | $16,000 |
| 1279 | Barnabas Kipyego | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $16,000 |
| 1280 | Ezinne Okparaebo | Women's 100 m | - | $16,000 |
| 1281 | Fabrizio Schembri | Men's triple jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1282 | Gerald Drummond | two disciplines | 1 | $16,000 |
| 1283 | Jak Ali Harvey | Men's 100 m | 1 | $16,000 |
| 1284 | Josephine Terlecki | Women's shot put | - | $16,000 |
| 1285 | Kafétien Gomis | Men's long jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1286 | Lea Meyer | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $16,000 |
| 1287 | Mariya Savinova | Women's 800 m | 4 | $16,000 |
| 1288 | Mason Finley | Men's discus throw | - | $16,000 |
| 1289 | Mickaël Hanany | Men's high jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1290 | Mohamed Moustaoui | two disciplines | - | $16,000 |
| 1291 | Morten Jensen | Men's long jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1292 | Radek Juška | Men's long jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1293 | Saida Tsehaye | Women's 800 m | - | $16,000 |
| 1294 | Samantha Henry-Robinson | two disciplines | - | $16,000 |
| 1295 | Saron Berhe | three disciplines | - | $16,000 |
| 1296 | Yosiris Urrutia | Women's triple jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1297 | Yuliya Zaripova | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $16,000 |
| 1298 | Jan Štefela | Men's high jump | - | $15,958 |
| 1299 | Brian Komen | Men's 1500 m | 1 | $15,750 |
| 1300 | Deon Lendore | Men's 400 m | - | $15,750 |
| 1301 | Dusty Jonas | Men's high jump | - | $15,750 |
| 1302 | Kaylin Whitney | two disciplines | - | $15,750 |
| 1303 | Paulien Couckuyt | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $15,750 |
| 1304 | Tonje Angelsen | Women's high jump | - | $15,583 |
| 1305 | Adam Nelson | Men's shot put | - | $15,500 |
| 1306 | Aleksandra Fedoriva-Spayer | Women's 200 m | - | $15,500 |
| 1307 | Brittany Crew | Women's shot put | - | $15,500 |
| 1308 | Courtney Wayment | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $15,500 |
| 1309 | Felisha Johnson | Women's shot put | - | $15,500 |
| 1310 | Gabriele Grunewald | two disciplines | - | $15,500 |
| 1311 | Huang Changzhou | Men's long jump | - | $15,500 |
| 1312 | Jorge A. Hodelín | Men's long jump | - | $15,500 |
| 1313 | Meselech Melkamu | two disciplines | - | $15,500 |
| 1314 | Olga Kucherenko | Women's long jump | 2 | $15,500 |
| 1315 | Olha Lyakhova | Women's 800 m | - | $15,500 |
| 1316 | Steve Mullings | two disciplines | 1 | $15,500 |
| 1317 | Xiangrong Liu | Women's shot put | - | $15,500 |
| 1318 | Yoann Rapinier | Men's triple jump | - | $15,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Jan Štefela is 1298th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $15,958.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Jan Štefela most
Herculis EBS 2025 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the high jump, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: JuVaughn Harrison, Yonathan Kapitolnik, Raymond Richards, Hamish Kerr, Romaine Beckford and Shelby McEwen.
Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2025 paid $2,000 for 6th in the high jump, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Mateusz Kołodziejski, Elijah Kosiba, Gianmarco Tamberi, Hamish Kerr, JuVaughn Harrison and Oleh Doroshchuk.
London Athletics Meet 2024 paid $2,000 for 4th in the high jump, one of six in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Thomas Carmoy, Norbert Kobielski, Hamish Kerr, JuVaughn Harrison and William Grimsey.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Jan Štefela won?
$15,958, which ranks 1298th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from nine paid finishes between 2024 and 2026.
What is Jan Štefela's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the high jump at the 2025 Herculis EBS. 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 Jan Štefela 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 high jump 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 Jan Štefela 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.
How much did Jan Štefela win at the 2025 World Championships?
$22,000, from one paid final in Tokyo. The championships pay eight places in every event, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th.
How much has Jan Štefela won at the World Indoor Championships?
$4,000, from one paid final in Toruń 2026. An indoor title pays $40,000 and the ladder runs six places deep, down to $4,000 for 6th, the same in every event on the programme and the same for a relay team.
Is this everything Jan Štefela earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Championships and World Indoor Championships money above is separate money from a separate payer, and none of it is added together here. It holds 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 Jan Štefela is Yuliya Zaripova on $16,000, and one below Brian Komen on $15,750. Jan Štefela is one of 30 Czechia athletes athletics has paid, and Czechia athletics prize money adds them up to $1,752,792 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's high jump prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Jan Štefela has been paid in one 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 Doha Diamond League 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 men's high jump page. Ultimate Championship prize money is the 2026 championship in Budapest, $10,000,000 over three days, and the full final is on the men's high jump page. 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 men's high jump page.