Lamara Distin prize money
Lamara Distin has been paid $18,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1187th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from ten paid finishes in the women's high jump, the best of them 3rd.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xiamen Diamond League 2026 | High jump | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2026 | High jump | =4th | $2,750 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2026 | High jump | 5th | $2,500 |
| London Athletics Meet 2026 | High jump | 6th | $2,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2026 | High jump | 6th | $2,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2026 | High jump | =9th | - |
| London Athletics Meet 2025 | High jump | =7th | $1,250 |
| Meeting de Paris 2024 | High jump | 4th | $2,000 |
| Athletissima 2024 | High jump | 7th | $750 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2024 | High jump | 8th | $500 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2023 | High jump | 6th | $1,000 |
| All eleven | Women's high jump | - | $18,750 |
The ten paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $18,750 is ten separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.02% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the eleven starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The Ultimate Championship
What Lamara Distin did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's high jump | 6th | 1.86 m | - |
Lamara Distin 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 she finished. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
The World Indoor Championships
What Lamara Distin did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's high jump | =10th | 1.85 | - |
Lamara Distin stood in one World Indoor Championships final and finished outside the money. The championships pay six places, $40,000 for a title down to $4,000 for 6th, and nothing at all below that. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
Season by season
2023 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | - | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $1,000 |
| 2024 | 3 | - | Meeting de Paris | $3,250 |
| 2025 | 1 | - | London Athletics Meet | $1,250 |
| 2026 | 6 | - | Xiamen Diamond League | $13,250 |
season running total
2026 is the biggest of them, $13,250 from six starts. Every season from 2023 to 2026 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $18,750.
Around Lamara Distin on the money list
Ranks 1167 to 1207
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1167 | Maddi Wesche | Women's shot put | - | $19,500 |
| 1168 | Patricia Hall | two disciplines | - | $19,500 |
| 1169 | Tia Hellebaut | Women's high jump | - | $19,500 |
| 1170 | Yvette Lewis | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $19,500 |
| 1171 | Dylan Beard | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $19,250 |
| 1172 | Fantu Worku | two disciplines | - | $19,250 |
| 1173 | Heather MacLean | two disciplines | - | $19,250 |
| 1174 | Lisanne de Witte | Women's 400 m | - | $19,250 |
| 1175 | Oliver Helander | Men's javelin throw | - | $19,250 |
| 1176 | Asmir Kolašinac | Men's shot put | - | $19,000 |
| 1177 | Boris Berian | Men's 800 m | 1 | $19,000 |
| 1178 | Cole Walsh | Men's pole vault | - | $19,000 |
| 1179 | Elvira Herman | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $19,000 |
| 1180 | Gabriela Petrova | Women's triple jump | - | $19,000 |
| 1181 | Jasmine Jones | two disciplines | - | $19,000 |
| 1182 | Joanna Atkins | two disciplines | - | $19,000 |
| 1183 | Kalkidan Gezahegne | two disciplines | - | $19,000 |
| 1184 | Parker Wolfe | two disciplines | 1 | $19,000 |
| 1185 | Robert Gregory | Men's 200 m | - | $19,000 |
| 1186 | Brahim Kaazouzi | Men's 1500 m | 1 | $18,750 |
| 1187 | Lamara Distin | Women's high jump | - | $18,750 |
| 1188 | Lynna Irby | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1189 | Mekides Abebe | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1190 | Michaela Meijer | Women's pole vault | - | $18,750 |
| 1191 | Shane Brathwaite | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $18,750 |
| 1192 | Zerfe Wondemagegn | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1193 | Charlene Lipsey | Women's 800 m | - | $18,500 |
| 1194 | Christin Wurth-Thomas | two disciplines | 1 | $18,500 |
| 1195 | Khadevis Robinson | Men's 800 m | 1 | $18,500 |
| 1196 | Lyukman Adams | Men's triple jump | 2 | $18,500 |
| 1197 | Michael Bingham | Men's 400 m | - | $18,500 |
| 1198 | Sheri-Ann Brooks | two disciplines | - | $18,500 |
| 1199 | Dariya Derkach | Women's triple jump | - | $18,250 |
| 1200 | Susan Ejore | Women's 1500 m | - | $18,250 |
| 1201 | Timothé Mumenthaler | two disciplines | - | $18,250 |
| 1202 | Worknesh Mesele | three disciplines | - | $18,250 |
| 1203 | Vita Styopina | Women's high jump | - | $18,083 |
| 1204 | Oksana Okuneva | Women's high jump | - | $18,050 |
| 1205 | Brahim Taleb | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $18,000 |
| 1206 | Brigitte Ann Foster-Hylton | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1207 | Cyréna Samba-Mayela | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $18,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Lamara Distin is 1187th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $18,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Lamara Distin most
Xiamen Diamond League 2026 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the high jump, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Maria Żodzik, Eleanor Patterson, Charity Hufnagel, Lu Jiawen, Morgan Lake and Imke Onnen.
Weltklasse Zürich 2026 paid $2,750 for =4th in the high jump, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Eleanor Patterson, Angelina Topić, Maria Żodzik, Yuliya Levchenko and Nicola Olyslagers.
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2026 paid $2,500 for 5th in the high jump, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Charity Hufnagel, Elena Kulichenko, Maria Żodzik, Vashti Cunningham, Imke Onnen and Yaroslava Mahuchikh.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Lamara Distin won?
$18,750, which ranks 1187th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from ten paid finishes between 2023 and 2026.
What is Lamara Distin's biggest Diamond League payday?
$4,000, for finishing 3rd in the Diamond+ high jump at the 2026 Xiamen Diamond League. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 3rd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Lamara Distin 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 place is worth the same in the women's high jump 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.
Has Lamara Distin 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 Lamara Distin 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 Lamara Distin is Brahim Kaazouzi on $18,750, and one below Lynna Irby on $18,750. Lamara Distin is one of 158 Jamaica athletes athletics has paid, and Jamaica athletics prize money adds them up to $8,413,000 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's high jump prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Lamara Distin 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 Xiamen Diamond League has its own page across every edition of it. Ultimate Championship prize money is the 2026 championship in Budapest, $10,000,000 over three days, and the full final is on the women's high jump page. Indoor championships prize money is the Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026 championships, $4,664,000 put up across 53 finals, and the indoor final is on the women's high jump page.