Keshorn Walcott prize money
Keshorn Walcott has been paid $137,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 207th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 39 paid finishes in the men'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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
The 39 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $137,750 is 39 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. One of the 40 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Keshorn Walcott did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's javelin throw | 1st | 88.16 m | $70,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Keshorn Walcott $70,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $137,750 from 40 Diamond League starts between 2013 and 2026. A world title paid $70,000, which is more than the Diamond League has paid him in any single season. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The Ultimate Championship
What Keshorn Walcott did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's javelin throw | 4th | 82.41 m | - |
Keshorn Walcott 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
2013 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | - | Qatar Athletic | $4,000 |
| 2014 | 5 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $13,000 |
| 2015 | 6 | 1 | Athletissima | $26,000 |
| 2016 | 5 | - | Muller Anniversary Games | $16,500 |
| 2017 | 3 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $11,500 |
| 2018 | 1 | - | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $1,500 |
| 2019 | 1 | - | Müller Grand Prix Birmingham | - |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 2 | - | Müller Grand Prix Gateshead | $9,500 |
| 2022 | 1 | - | Athletissima | $2,000 |
| 2023 | 3 | - | Herculis EBS | $5,250 |
| 2024 | - | - | - | - |
| 2025 | 5 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $25,000 |
| 2026 | 6 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $23,500 |
season running total
2015 is the biggest of them, $26,000 from six starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Keshorn Walcott in 2019, 2020 and 2024, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $137,750.
Around Keshorn Walcott on the money list
Ranks 187 to 227
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 204 | Matthew Denny | Men's discus throw | 3 | $139,000 |
| 205 | Nadine Visser | Women's 100 m hurdles | 2 | $138,250 |
| 206 | Natasha Hastings | two disciplines | 3 | $138,000 |
| 207 | Keshorn Walcott | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $137,750 |
| 208 | Francena McCorory | Women's 400 m | 6 | $137,500 |
| 209 | Iryna Herashchenko | Women's high jump | 2 | $137,375 |
| 210 | Matthew Hudson-Smith | Men's 400 m | 5 | $136,750 |
| 211 | Piotr Lisek | Men's pole vault | 3 | $136,375 |
| 212 | Grant Holloway | Men's 110 m hurdles | 8 | $136,000 |
| 213 | Kurtis Marschall | Men's pole vault | 2 | $135,833 |
| 214 | Pascal Martinot-Lagarde | Men's 110 m hurdles | 6 | $135,500 |
| 215 | Hugues Fabrice Zango | Men's triple jump | 3 | $135,250 |
| 216 | Natalia Bukowiecka | Women's 400 m | 3 | $135,250 |
| 217 | Elijah Manangoi | three disciplines | 5 | $135,000 |
| 218 | Leonardo Fabbri | Men's shot put | 5 | $135,000 |
| 219 | Hamish Kerr | Men's high jump | 7 | $134,750 |
| 220 | Jenny Simpson | four disciplines | 4 | $133,500 |
| 221 | Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou | Women's pole vault | 5 | $133,250 |
| 222 | Anna Chicherova | Women's high jump | 8 | $133,000 |
| 223 | Eleanor Patterson | Women's high jump | 2 | $132,750 |
| 224 | Getnet Wale | three disciplines | 2 | $132,750 |
| 225 | Abraham Kibiwot | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $132,250 |
| 226 | Asafa Powell | Men's 100 m | 9 | $131,500 |
| 227 | Daryll Neita | two disciplines | 3 | $131,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Keshorn Walcott is 207th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $137,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Keshorn Walcott most
Athletissima 2015 paid $10,000 for 1st in the javelin throw, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Vítězslav Veselý, Tero Pitkämäki, Julius Yego, Jakub Vadlejch, Ari Mannio and Thomas Röhler.
AG Memorial Van Damme 2026 paid $9,000 for 3rd in the javelin throw, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Anderson Peters, Julius Yego, Timothy Herman, Curtis Thompson, Rumesh Tharanga and Dawid Wegner.
Weltklasse Zürich 2025 paid $7,000 for 3rd in the javelin throw, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Anderson Peters, Julius Yego, Andrian Mardare, Simon Wieland, Julian Weber and Neeraj Chopra.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Keshorn Walcott won?
$137,750, which ranks 207th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 39 paid finishes between 2013 and 2026.
What is Keshorn Walcott's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the javelin throw at the 2015 Athletissima. 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 Keshorn Walcott 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 Keshorn Walcott won?
One of 40, worth $10,000 between them. Three of his appearances came at a final, which paid $21,000.
Has Keshorn Walcott 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. That start is in the result table on this site either way.
How much did Keshorn Walcott win at the 2025 World Championships?
$70,000, 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 Keshorn Walcott 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 Keshorn Walcott is Natasha Hastings on $138,000, and one below Francena McCorory on $137,500. Keshorn Walcott is one of 18 Trinidad and Tobago athletes athletics has paid, and Trinidad and Tobago athletics prize money adds them up to $872,750 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 Keshorn Walcott 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 AG Memorial Van Damme 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.