Konstantinos Filippidis prize money
Konstantinos Filippidis has been paid $161,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 159th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 40 paid finishes in the men's pole vault, six 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 40 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $161,000 is 40 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 41 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Season by season
2011 to 2019, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3 | 1 | Memorial van Damme | $17,500 |
| 2012 | 5 | - | Meeting Areva | $17,000 |
| 2013 | 6 | 2 | Qatar Athletic | $33,750 |
| 2014 | 6 | 1 | DN Galan | $29,750 |
| 2015 | 7 | 2 | Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix | $38,000 |
| 2016 | 6 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $10,000 |
| 2017 | 3 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $7,500 |
| 2018 | 4 | - | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $6,250 |
| 2019 | 1 | - | Doha Diamond League | $1,250 |
season running total
2015 is the biggest of them, $38,000 from seven starts. Every season from 2011 to 2019 paid him something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $161,000.
Around Konstantinos Filippidis on the money list
Ranks 139 to 179
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 139 | Larissa Iapichino | Women's long jump | 6 | $177,500 |
| 140 | Sally Pearson | Women's 100 m hurdles | 7 | $172,500 |
| 141 | Usain Bolt | two disciplines | 16 | $172,000 |
| 142 | Andriy Protsenko | Men's high jump | 3 | $171,250 |
| 143 | Emmanouil Karalis | Men's pole vault | 3 | $170,875 |
| 144 | Keely Hodgkinson | two disciplines | 9 | $170,500 |
| 145 | Marcin Lewandowski | four disciplines | 2 | $170,500 |
| 146 | Sarah Mitton | Women's shot put | 3 | $170,250 |
| 147 | Yuliya Levchenko | Women's high jump | 1 | $169,125 |
| 148 | Aaron Brown | two disciplines | 2 | $167,000 |
| 149 | Abeba Aregawi | four disciplines | 12 | $166,000 |
| 150 | David Rudisha | Men's 800 m | 14 | $166,000 |
| 151 | Neeraj Chopra | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $165,500 |
| 152 | Will Claye | two disciplines | 4 | $164,750 |
| 153 | Hansle Parchment | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $164,000 |
| 154 | Selemon Barega | four disciplines | 5 | $163,750 |
| 155 | Eunice Sum | two disciplines | 11 | $162,500 |
| 156 | Andrius Gudžius | Men's discus throw | 2 | $162,000 |
| 157 | Marco Arop | two disciplines | 5 | $162,000 |
| 158 | Anderson Peters | Men's javelin throw | 7 | $161,000 |
| 159 | Konstantinos Filippidis | Men's pole vault | 6 | $161,000 |
| 160 | Julian Weber | Men's javelin throw | 4 | $160,750 |
| 161 | Norah Jeruto | two disciplines | 6 | $160,750 |
| 162 | Tajay Gayle | Men's long jump | 4 | $160,250 |
| 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 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Konstantinos Filippidis is 159th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $161,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Konstantinos Filippidis most
Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix 2015 paid $10,000 for 1st in the pole vault, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Carlo Paech, Germán Chiaraviglio, Tobias Scherbarth, Piotr Lisek, Ilya Mudrov and Raphael Holzdeppe.
Meeting Areva 2015 paid $10,000 for 1st in the pole vault, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Thiago Braz, Sam Kendricks, Kévin Menaldo, Aleksandr Gripich, Renaud Lavillenie and Jan Kudlička.
DN Galan 2014 paid $10,000 for 1st in the pole vault, one of five in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Piotr Lisek, Changrui Xue, Melker Svärd Jacobsson and Paweł Wojciechowski.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Konstantinos Filippidis won?
$161,000, which ranks 159th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 40 paid finishes between 2011 and 2019.
What is Konstantinos Filippidis's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the pole vault at the 2015 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 Konstantinos Filippidis 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 pole vault 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 Konstantinos Filippidis won?
Six of 41, worth $60,000 between them. Two of his appearances came at a final, which paid $5,000.
Has Konstantinos Filippidis 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.
Is this everything Konstantinos Filippidis 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 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 Konstantinos Filippidis is Anderson Peters on $161,000, and one below Julian Weber on $160,750. Konstantinos Filippidis is one of 18 Greece athletes athletics has paid, and Greece athletics prize money adds them up to $1,638,125 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's pole vault prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Konstantinos Filippidis has been paid in one of them. The biggest of the rest are men's 100 m, men's 800 m and men's 200 m. Every meeting he 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.