Kemi Adekoya prize money
Kemi Adekoya has been paid $49,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 634th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from fourteen paid finishes in the women's 400 m hurdles and women's 400 m, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doha Diamond League 2026 | 400 m hurdles | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Athletissima 2026 | 400 m hurdles | 8th | $1,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2025 | 400 m hurdles | 7th | $1,500 |
| Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix 2016 | 400 m hurdles | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2016 | 400 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2016 | 400 m hurdles | 5th | $2,500 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2016 | 400 m hurdles | 5th | $2,500 |
| British Athletics Grand Prix 2016 | 400 m hurdles | 5th | $2,500 |
| Meeting Areva 2015 | 400 m hurdles | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Bislett Games 2015 | 400 m hurdles | 4th | $3,000 |
| Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix 2014 | 400 m hurdles | 1st | $10,000 |
| ExxonMobil Bislett Games 2014 | 400 m hurdles | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Herculis 2014 | 400 m hurdles | 6th | $2,000 |
| Belgacom Memorial Van Damme 2014 | 400 m hurdles | 8th | $1,000 |
| All fourteen | two disciplines | - | $49,000 |
The fourteen paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $49,000 is fourteen separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.04% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Kemi Adekoya
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 400 m hurdles | 13 | 1 | 2014 to 2026 | $46,000 |
| Women's 400 m | 1 | - | 2016 | $3,000 |
The women's 400 m hurdles has paid Kemi Adekoya $46,000 of the $49,000, which is 94% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2014 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 4 | 1 | Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix | $19,000 |
| 2015 | 2 | - | Meeting Areva | $7,000 |
| 2016 | 5 | - | Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix | $16,500 |
| 2017 | - | - | - | - |
| 2018 | - | - | - | - |
| 2019 | - | - | - | - |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | - | - | - | - |
| 2022 | - | - | - | - |
| 2023 | - | - | - | - |
| 2024 | - | - | - | - |
| 2025 | 1 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $1,500 |
| 2026 | 2 | - | Doha Diamond League | $5,000 |
season running total
2014 is the biggest of them, $19,000 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Kemi Adekoya in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $49,000.
Around Kemi Adekoya on the money list
Ranks 614 to 654
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 614 | Ayomide Folorunso | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $50,250 |
| 615 | Hilary Kpatcha | Women's long jump | 1 | $50,250 |
| 616 | Zhang Guowei | Men's high jump | 1 | $50,250 |
| 617 | Athing Mu | Women's 800 m | 3 | $50,000 |
| 618 | Chris Benard | Men's triple jump | - | $50,000 |
| 619 | Edmund Serem | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $50,000 |
| 620 | Ignisious Gaisah | Men's long jump | - | $50,000 |
| 621 | Matheus Lima | two disciplines | - | $50,000 |
| 622 | Sinesipho Dambile | Men's 200 m | 1 | $50,000 |
| 623 | Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui | two disciplines | 1 | $49,750 |
| 624 | Joseph Fahnbulleh | Men's 200 m | - | $49,750 |
| 625 | Kyree King | two disciplines | - | $49,750 |
| 626 | Rachid Muratake | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $49,750 |
| 627 | Debbie Dunn | Women's 400 m | - | $49,500 |
| 628 | Denisa Rosolová | two disciplines | - | $49,500 |
| 629 | Sarah Healy | four disciplines | 1 | $49,500 |
| 630 | Celliphine Chespol | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $49,250 |
| 631 | Sasha Zhoya | Men's 110 m hurdles | 2 | $49,250 |
| 632 | Antti Ruuskanen | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $49,000 |
| 633 | Baboloki Thebe | Men's 400 m | 1 | $49,000 |
| 634 | Kemi Adekoya | two disciplines | 1 | $49,000 |
| 635 | Sara Petersen | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $48,750 |
| 636 | Max Heß | Men's triple jump | - | $48,500 |
| 637 | Pavel Maslák | Men's 400 m | - | $48,500 |
| 638 | Wenda Nel | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $48,500 |
| 639 | Tia Clayton | Women's 100 m | 2 | $48,250 |
| 640 | Ari Mannio | Men's javelin throw | - | $48,000 |
| 641 | Courtney Okolo | Women's 400 m | - | $48,000 |
| 642 | Khallifah Rosser | Men's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $48,000 |
| 643 | Leevan Sands | Men's triple jump | 1 | $48,000 |
| 644 | Lydia Chebet Rotich | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $48,000 |
| 645 | Vikas Gowda | Men's discus throw | - | $48,000 |
| 646 | Virginia Nyambura | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $48,000 |
| 647 | Wilfried Happio | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $48,000 |
| 648 | Aleia Hobbs | Women's 100 m | 2 | $47,750 |
| 649 | Amel Tuka | Men's 800 m | 1 | $47,750 |
| 650 | Līna Mūze | Women's javelin throw | - | $47,250 |
| 651 | Matteo Sioli | Men's high jump | 2 | $47,250 |
| 652 | Werkuha Getachew | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 2 | $47,250 |
| 653 | Davisleydi Velazco | Women's triple jump | 2 | $47,000 |
| 654 | Laulauga Tausaga | Women's discus throw | - | $47,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Kemi Adekoya is 634th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $49,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Kemi Adekoya most
Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix 2014 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 400 m hurdles, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Kaliese Carter, Eilidh Doyle, Lashinda Demus, Georganne Moline, Hanna Titimets and Anna Ryzhykova.
Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix 2016 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 400 m hurdles, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Kaliese Carter, Wenda Nel, Cassandra Tate, Meghan Beesley, Tiffany Williams and Jernail Hayes.
ExxonMobil Bislett Games 2014 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 400 m hurdles, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Eilidh Doyle, Tiffany Williams, Shevon Stoddart, Hanna Titimets, Natalya Antyukh and Kaliese Carter.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Kemi Adekoya won?
$49,000, which ranks 634th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from fourteen paid finishes between 2014 and 2026.
What is Kemi Adekoya's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 400 m hurdles at the 2014 Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix. 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 Kemi Adekoya 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 400 m hurdles 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 Kemi Adekoya won?
One of fourteen, worth $10,000 between them. She has not been paid at a Diamond League final.
Is this everything Kemi Adekoya 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 Kemi Adekoya is Baboloki Thebe on $49,000, and one below Sara Petersen on $48,750. Kemi Adekoya is one of 18 Bahrain athletes athletics has paid, and Bahrain athletics prize money adds them up to $1,047,250 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 400 m hurdles prize money and women's 400 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Kemi Adekoya has been paid in two 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 Doha Diamond League has its own page across every edition of it.