Julius Yego prize money
Julius Yego has been paid $96,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 335th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 32 paid finishes in the men's javelin throw, two of them wins.
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
The 32 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $96,000 is 32 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.08% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the 34 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Julius Yego did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's javelin throw | 6th | 85.54 m | $7,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Julius Yego $7,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $96,000 from 34 Diamond League starts between 2012 and 2026. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The Ultimate Championship
What Julius Yego did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's javelin throw | 6th | 80.23 m | - |
Julius Yego 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.
Season by season
2012 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $2,500 |
| 2013 | 2 | - | Memorial Van Damme | $4,000 |
| 2014 | 4 | - | ExxonMobil Bislett Games | $15,000 |
| 2015 | 6 | 1 | British Athletics Grand Prix | $26,000 |
| 2016 | 3 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $11,500 |
| 2017 | 3 | - | Herculis | $5,000 |
| 2018 | 1 | - | Doha Diamond League | $1,000 |
| 2019 | 1 | - | IAAF Diamond League Shanghai | $1,500 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | - | - | - | - |
| 2022 | - | - | - | - |
| 2023 | - | - | - | - |
| 2024 | 3 | - | Athletissima | $1,500 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $17,000 |
| 2026 | 5 | - | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $11,000 |
season running total
2015 is the biggest of them, $26,000 from six starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Julius Yego in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $96,000.
Around Julius Yego on the money list
Ranks 315 to 355
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 315 | Ehsan Haddadi | Men's discus throw | 1 | $101,500 |
| 316 | Alexander Ogando | two disciplines | 2 | $101,250 |
| 317 | Ezekiel Kemboi | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 7 | $101,000 |
| 318 | Kamila Lićwinko | Women's high jump | 2 | $101,000 |
| 319 | Trey Cunningham | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $100,750 |
| 320 | Holly Bradshaw | Women's pole vault | - | $100,083 |
| 321 | Teddy Tamgho | Men's triple jump | 6 | $99,500 |
| 322 | Lieke Klaver | Women's 400 m | - | $98,750 |
| 323 | Fabrice Lapierre | Men's long jump | 2 | $98,000 |
| 324 | Juan Miguel Echevarría | Men's long jump | 4 | $98,000 |
| 325 | Gia Lewis-Smallwood | Women's discus throw | 1 | $97,500 |
| 326 | Adriana Vilagoš | Women's javelin throw | 2 | $97,250 |
| 327 | Donald Thomas | Men's high jump | 1 | $97,208 |
| 328 | Feng Bin | Women's discus throw | 3 | $97,000 |
| 329 | Kellie Wells | Women's 100 m hurdles | 2 | $97,000 |
| 330 | Tyson Gay | two disciplines | 8 | $97,000 |
| 331 | Chris Nilsen | Men's pole vault | 2 | $96,750 |
| 332 | Emma Zapletalová | Women's 400 m hurdles | 5 | $96,500 |
| 333 | Joshua Cheptegei | three disciplines | 2 | $96,500 |
| 334 | Shannon Rowbury | four disciplines | 2 | $96,500 |
| 335 | Julius Yego | Men's javelin throw | 2 | $96,000 |
| 336 | Zharnel Hughes | two disciplines | 2 | $95,500 |
| 337 | Mujinga Kambundji | two disciplines | 1 | $95,250 |
| 338 | Ronald Levy | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $94,750 |
| 339 | Cleopatra Borel | Women's shot put | - | $94,500 |
| 340 | Yargelis Savigne | two disciplines | 7 | $94,500 |
| 341 | Jorinde van Klinken | two disciplines | 1 | $94,000 |
| 342 | Lamecha Girma | five disciplines | 6 | $94,000 |
| 343 | Sanya Richards-Ross | two disciplines | 5 | $93,500 |
| 344 | Luguelín Santos | Men's 400 m | 1 | $93,000 |
| 345 | Amy Hunt | two disciplines | - | $92,500 |
| 346 | Christophe Lemaitre | two disciplines | 1 | $92,500 |
| 347 | Chaunte Lowe | Women's high jump | 5 | $92,000 |
| 348 | Berihu Aregawi | three disciplines | 4 | $91,750 |
| 349 | Peruth Chemutai | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $91,750 |
| 350 | L. J. van Zyl | Men's 400 m hurdles | 2 | $91,500 |
| 351 | Niels Laros | three disciplines | 3 | $91,000 |
| 352 | Nelly Chepchirchir | two disciplines | 4 | $90,750 |
| 353 | Levern Spencer | Women's high jump | 1 | $90,508 |
| 354 | Jake Wightman | four disciplines | 4 | $90,250 |
| 355 | Jeremy Wariner | Men's 400 m | 7 | $90,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Julius Yego is 335th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $96,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Julius Yego most
Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2025 paid $10,000 for 1st in the javelin throw, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Keshorn Walcott, Andrian Mardare, Dawid Wegner, Cyprian Mrzygłód, Anderson Peters and Edis Matusevičius.
British Athletics Grand Prix 2015 paid $10,000 for 1st in the javelin throw, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Vítězslav Veselý, Keshorn Walcott, Jakub Vadlejch, Tero Pitkämäki, Thomas Röhler and Ihab Abdelrahman.
Prefontaine Classic 2016 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the javelin throw, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Thomas Röhler, Jakub Vadlejch, Cyrus Hostetler, Johannes Vetter, Keshorn Walcott and Ihab Abdelrahman.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Julius Yego won?
$96,000, which ranks 335th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 32 paid finishes between 2012 and 2026.
What is Julius Yego's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the javelin throw at the 2025 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 1st and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Julius Yego 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 win is worth the same in the men's javelin throw 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.
How many Diamond League meetings has Julius Yego won?
Two of 34, worth $20,000 between them. Two of his appearances came at a final, which paid $5,000.
Has Julius Yego ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Two 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 Julius Yego win at the 2025 World Championships?
$7,000, 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.
Is this everything Julius Yego earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World 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 Julius Yego is Shannon Rowbury on $96,500, and one below Zharnel Hughes on $95,500. Julius Yego is one of 221 Kenya athletes athletics has paid, and Kenya athletics prize money adds them up to $10,867,417 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's javelin throw prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Julius Yego 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 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 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 javelin throw 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 javelin throw page.