Kelsey-Lee Barber prize money
Kelsey-Lee Barber has been paid $82,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 173rd of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from thirteen paid finishes in the women's javelin throw, one of them a win.
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
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meeting de Paris 2023 | Javelin throw | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Athletissima 2023 | Javelin throw | 6th | $1,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2023 | Javelin throw | 7th | $750 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2022 | Javelin throw | 2nd | $12,000 |
| Herculis 2022 | Javelin throw | 1st | $10,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2022 | Javelin throw | 4th | $2,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2022 | Javelin throw | 5th | $1,250 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2021 | Javelin throw | 2nd | $12,000 |
| Bislett Games 2021 | Javelin throw | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2019 | Javelin throw | 2nd | $20,000 |
| Athletissima 2019 | Javelin throw | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Müller Anniversary Games 2019 | Javelin throw | 2nd | $6,000 |
| IAAF Diamond League Shanghai 2019 | Javelin throw | 6th | $2,000 |
| Bislett Games 2018 | Javelin throw | 9th | — |
| All fourteen | Women's javelin throw | — | $82,500 |
The thirteen paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $82,500 is thirteen separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.2% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the fourteen starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Season by season
2018 to 2023, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | — | Bislett Games | — |
| 2019 | 4 | — | Weltklasse Zürich | $34,000 |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 2 | — | Weltklasse Zürich | $15,500 |
| 2022 | 4 | 1 | Weltklasse Zürich | $25,250 |
| 2023 | 3 | — | Meeting de Paris | $7,750 |
season running total
2019 is the biggest of them, $34,000 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Kelsey-Lee Barber in 2018 and 2020, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $82,500.
Around Kelsey-Lee Barber on the money list
Ranks 153 to 193
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 153 | Johannes Vetter | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $93,000 |
| 154 | Abraham Kibiwot | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $92,500 |
| 155 | Amy Hunt | two disciplines | — | $92,500 |
| 156 | Berihu Aregawi | three disciplines | 4 | $91,750 |
| 157 | Niels Laros | three disciplines | 3 | $91,000 |
| 158 | Nelly Chepchirchir | two disciplines | 4 | $90,750 |
| 159 | Jereem Richards | two disciplines | — | $88,000 |
| 160 | Birke Haylom | four disciplines | 3 | $87,000 |
| 161 | Emmanuel Eseme | Men's 100 m | 2 | $87,000 |
| 162 | Peruth Chemutai | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $86,750 |
| 163 | Grace Stark | Women's 100 m hurdles | 3 | $86,500 |
| 164 | Gianna Woodruff | Women's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $86,000 |
| 165 | Birhanu Balew | two disciplines | 2 | $85,750 |
| 166 | Selemon Barega | four disciplines | 3 | $85,750 |
| 167 | Hagos Gebrhiwet | Men's 5000 m | 3 | $85,500 |
| 168 | Diribe Welteji | three disciplines | 4 | $85,250 |
| 169 | Payton Otterdahl | Men's shot put | 2 | $83,750 |
| 170 | Anna Ryzhykova | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $83,500 |
| 171 | Hyvin Jepkemoi | two disciplines | 4 | $82,500 |
| 172 | Joshua Cheptegei | three disciplines | 2 | $82,500 |
| 173 | Kelsey-Lee Barber | Women's javelin throw | 1 | $82,500 |
| 174 | Yan Ziyi | Women's javelin throw | 5 | $82,500 |
| 175 | Juan Miguel Echevarría | Men's long jump | 3 | $82,000 |
| 176 | Maggie Ewen | Women's shot put | 1 | $82,000 |
| 177 | Devon Allen | Men's 110 m hurdles | 4 | $81,500 |
| 178 | Thea LaFond | Women's triple jump | 1 | $81,500 |
| 179 | Orlando Ortega | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $81,000 |
| 180 | CJ Allen | two disciplines | 1 | $80,750 |
| 181 | Daniel Roberts | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $79,750 |
| 182 | Ferguson Rotich | two disciplines | 2 | $79,250 |
| 183 | Devynne Charlton | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $78,750 |
| 184 | Ferdinand Omanyala | Men's 100 m | 2 | $78,250 |
| 185 | Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith | two disciplines | 1 | $78,250 |
| 186 | Sada Williams | Women's 400 m | — | $78,250 |
| 187 | EJ Obiena | Men's pole vault | 1 | $78,125 |
| 188 | Ramil Guliyev | Men's 200 m | 3 | $78,000 |
| 189 | Molly Caudery | Women's pole vault | 3 | $77,500 |
| 190 | Lü Huihui | Women's javelin throw | 3 | $77,250 |
| 191 | Medina Eisa | two disciplines | 3 | $77,000 |
| 192 | Oleh Doroshchuk | Men's high jump | 2 | $76,250 |
| 193 | Nijel Amos | Men's 800 m | 5 | $76,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Kelsey-Lee Barber is 173rd of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $82,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Kelsey-Lee Barber most
Weltklasse Zürich 2019 paid $20,000 for 2nd in the javelin throw, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Nikola Ogrodníková, Christin Hussong, Barbora Špotáková, Eda Tuğsuz, Līna Mūze and Tatsiana Khaladovich.
Weltklasse Zürich 2022 paid $12,000 for 2nd in the javelin throw, one of six in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Haruka Kitaguchi, Līna Mūze, Barbora Špotáková, Liveta Jasiūnaitė and Kara Winger.
Weltklasse Zürich 2021 paid $12,000 for 2nd in the javelin throw, one of six in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Nikola Ogrodníková, Barbora Špotáková, Līna Mūze, Maria Andrejczyk and Christin Hussong.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Kelsey-Lee Barber won?
$82,500, which ranks 173rd of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from thirteen paid finishes between 2018 and 2023.
What is Kelsey-Lee Barber's biggest Diamond League payday?
$20,000, for finishing 2nd in the javelin throw at the 2019 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 Kelsey-Lee Barber 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 Kelsey-Lee Barber won?
One of fourteen, worth $10,000 between them. Three of her appearances came at a final, which paid $44,000.
Has Kelsey-Lee Barber ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
One time. 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. She is in the result table on this site either way.
Is this everything Kelsey-Lee Barber earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 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 2,112 athletes across the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Kelsey-Lee Barber is Joshua Cheptegei on $82,500, and one below Yan Ziyi on $82,500. Kelsey-Lee Barber is one of 57 Australia athletes athletics has paid, and Australia athletics prize money adds them up to $2,530,500 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 Kelsey-Lee Barber 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 800 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Meeting de Paris has its own page across every edition of it.