Kara Winger prize money
Kara Winger has been paid $148,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 183rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 37 paid finishes in the women's javelin throw, three 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 she finished, and what the card paid for it
The 37 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $148,000 is 37 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.1% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the 39 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Season by season
2010 to 2022, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4 | 1 | Prefontaine Classic | $28,000 |
| 2011 | 6 | - | Golden Gala | $11,500 |
| 2012 | 2 | - | Adidas Grand Prix | $5,500 |
| 2013 | - | - | - | - |
| 2014 | 4 | - | Adidas Grand Prix | $8,500 |
| 2015 | 6 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $16,000 |
| 2016 | 1 | - | Memorial Van Damme | $4,000 |
| 2017 | 5 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $9,500 |
| 2018 | 4 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $18,000 |
| 2019 | 3 | - | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $3,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | - | - | - | - |
| 2022 | 4 | 2 | Weltklasse Zürich | $44,000 |
season running total
2022 is the biggest of them, $44,000 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Kara Winger in 2013, 2020 and 2021, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $148,000.
Around Kara Winger on the money list
Ranks 163 to 203
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 163 | Sunette Viljoen | Women's javelin throw | 4 | $160,000 |
| 164 | Nickel Ashmeade | two disciplines | 6 | $159,500 |
| 165 | Jasmine Camacho-Quinn | Women's 100 m hurdles | 12 | $158,500 |
| 166 | Mike Rodgers | Men's 100 m | 1 | $157,000 |
| 167 | Brianna Rollins-McNeal | Women's 100 m hurdles | 6 | $155,000 |
| 168 | Abderrahman Samba | three disciplines | 7 | $154,500 |
| 169 | Jessica Schilder | Women's shot put | 5 | $153,250 |
| 170 | Silke Spiegelburg | Women's pole vault | 8 | $153,250 |
| 171 | Ruth Beitia | Women's high jump | 7 | $153,000 |
| 172 | Ruswahl Samaai | Men's long jump | 2 | $152,500 |
| 173 | Mary Moraa | three disciplines | 9 | $151,500 |
| 174 | Ryan Whiting | Men's shot put | 5 | $150,500 |
| 175 | Nadine Müller | Women's discus throw | 3 | $150,000 |
| 176 | Alexis Copello | Men's triple jump | 2 | $149,500 |
| 177 | Andreas Thorkildsen | Men's javelin throw | 10 | $149,500 |
| 178 | Cordell Tinch | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $149,500 |
| 179 | Anzhelika Sidorova | Women's pole vault | 4 | $149,250 |
| 180 | Isaac Makwala | two disciplines | 1 | $148,750 |
| 181 | Aries Merritt | Men's 110 m hurdles | 8 | $148,500 |
| 182 | Jamal Britt | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $148,500 |
| 183 | Kara Winger | Women's javelin throw | 3 | $148,000 |
| 184 | Michael Tinsley | Men's 400 m hurdles | 8 | $148,000 |
| 185 | Ramil Guliyev | two disciplines | 5 | $147,500 |
| 186 | Robert Harting | Men's discus throw | 11 | $147,500 |
| 187 | Oblique Seville | Men's 100 m | 5 | $146,000 |
| 188 | Collen Kebinatshipi | Men's 400 m | 6 | $145,500 |
| 189 | Mykolas Alekna | Men's discus throw | 7 | $145,500 |
| 190 | Simon Ehammer | Men's long jump | 3 | $145,500 |
| 191 | Rushell Clayton | Women's 400 m hurdles | 5 | $145,250 |
| 192 | Dani Stevens | Women's discus throw | 1 | $145,000 |
| 193 | Veronica Campbell Brown | two disciplines | 7 | $145,000 |
| 194 | Vernon Norwood | two disciplines | - | $143,250 |
| 195 | Mo Farah | three disciplines | 9 | $142,500 |
| 196 | Natoya Goule-Toppin | two disciplines | 1 | $142,500 |
| 197 | Sharika Nelvis | Women's 100 m hurdles | 4 | $142,500 |
| 198 | Churandy Martina | two disciplines | 2 | $142,000 |
| 199 | Madara Palameika | Women's javelin throw | 5 | $142,000 |
| 200 | Wycliffe Kinyamal | two disciplines | 6 | $140,750 |
| 201 | Alonso Edward | two disciplines | 8 | $140,500 |
| 202 | Trayvon Bromell | two disciplines | 6 | $140,500 |
| 203 | Yared Nuguse | two disciplines | 6 | $140,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Kara Winger is 183rd of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $148,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Kara Winger most
Weltklasse Zürich 2022 paid $30,000 for 1st in the javelin throw, one of six in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Kelsey-Lee Barber, Haruka Kitaguchi, Līna Mūze, Barbora Špotáková and Liveta Jasiūnaitė.
AG Memorial Van Damme 2022 paid $10,000 for 1st in the javelin throw, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Haruka Kitaguchi, Adriana Vilagoš, Kelsey-Lee Barber, Elizabeth Gleadle, Elina Tzengko and Liveta Jasiūnaitė.
Weltklasse Zürich 2018 paid $10,000 for 3rd in the javelin throw, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Lyu Huihui, Nikola Ogrodníková, Martina Ratej, Sigrid Borge, Géraldine Ruckstuhl and Tatsiana Khaladovich.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Kara Winger won?
$148,000, which ranks 183rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 37 paid finishes between 2010 and 2022.
What is Kara Winger's biggest Diamond League payday?
$30,000, for finishing 1st in the javelin throw at the 2022 Weltklasse Zürich. That is a final, which is why it is the biggest: the final pays two to five times what the same place is worth at a series meeting.
How does the Diamond League decide what Kara Winger gets paid?
Entirely by where she 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 women'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 Kara Winger won?
Three of 39, worth $50,000 between them. Three of her appearances came at a final, which paid $43,000.
Has Kara Winger 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.
Is this everything Kara Winger 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 her, 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 Kara Winger is Jamal Britt on $148,500, and one below Michael Tinsley on $148,000. Kara Winger is one of 659 United States athletes athletics has paid, and United States athletics prize money adds them up to $29,436,125 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's javelin throw prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Kara Winger has been paid in one of them. The biggest of the rest are women's 100 m, women's 100 m hurdles and women's 400 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Weltklasse Zürich has its own page across every edition of it.