Laviai Nielsen prize money
Laviai Nielsen has been paid $18,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 626th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from nine paid finishes in the women's 400 m, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doha Diamond League 2025 | 400 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| Meeting de Paris 2024 | 400 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| London Athletics Meet 2024 | 400 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Bislett Games 2024 | 400 m | 7th | $750 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2024 | 400 m | 9th | — |
| Memorial Van Damme 2023 | 400 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Müller Grand Prix Gateshead 2021 | 400 m | 8th | $500 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2019 | 400 m | 5th | $5,000 |
| Müller Anniversary Games 2019 | 400 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Athletissima 2019 | 400 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| All ten | Women's 400 m | — | $18,250 |
The nine paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $18,250 is nine separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.03% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the ten starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Athletics Relays
What Laviai Nielsen ran on
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 4 × 400 metres relay | 4th | 3:22.77 | $8,000 |
The World Relays have paid $8,000 for the one team Laviai Nielsen ran on in Gaborone 2026, and all of it went to Great Britain rather than to the four who ran. The $18,250 at the top of this page is what the Diamond League paid her. This is what World Athletics paid a country, and the two are not added together anywhere on the site. No team she ran on won its final, and the ladder paid the teams anyway: it reaches all eight teams in a final, $40,000 for a title down to $2,000 for 8th, so reaching one is the run that pays. She ran alongside Nicole Yeargin, and the Diamond League has paid them too. The World Relays page holds all 12 finals across two championships and the $1,067,000 they paid out.
The Olympic Games
What Laviai Nielsen won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Women's 4 × 400 metres relay | Bronze | — |
| Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay | Bronze | — |
The bronze in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay and the bronze in the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay paid nothing. Only a gold pays, so 97 of the 145 medals awarded on the athletics programme in Paris carried no money at all. The Olympic page holds all 48 golds, the $2,400,000 they paid and what the circuit pays the same champions.
Season by season
2019 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3 | — | Weltklasse Zürich | $12,000 |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 1 | — | Müller Grand Prix Gateshead | $500 |
| 2022 | — | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 1 | — | Memorial Van Damme | $1,000 |
| 2024 | 4 | — | Meeting de Paris | $3,250 |
| 2025 | 1 | — | Doha Diamond League | $1,500 |
season running total
2019 is the biggest of them, $12,000 from three starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Laviai Nielsen in 2020 and 2022, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $18,250.
Around Laviai Nielsen on the money list
Ranks 606 to 646
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 606 | Maddi Wesche | Women's shot put | — | $19,500 |
| 607 | Shanice Craft | Women's discus throw | — | $19,500 |
| 608 | Dylan Beard | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $19,250 |
| 609 | Fantu Worku | two disciplines | — | $19,250 |
| 610 | Heather MacLean | two disciplines | — | $19,250 |
| 611 | Lisanne de Witte | Women's 400 m | — | $19,250 |
| 612 | Oliver Helander | Men's javelin throw | — | $19,250 |
| 613 | Christoph Harting | Men's discus throw | — | $19,000 |
| 614 | Cole Walsh | Men's pole vault | — | $19,000 |
| 615 | Jasmine Jones | two disciplines | — | $19,000 |
| 616 | Luvo Manyonga | Men's long jump | — | $19,000 |
| 617 | Parker Wolfe | two disciplines | 1 | $19,000 |
| 618 | Robert Gregory | Men's 200 m | — | $19,000 |
| 619 | Lamara Distin | Women's high jump | — | $18,750 |
| 620 | Léa Sprunger | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $18,750 |
| 621 | Mekides Abebe | two disciplines | — | $18,750 |
| 622 | Zerfe Wondemagegn | two disciplines | — | $18,750 |
| 623 | Courtney Frerichs | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $18,500 |
| 624 | Tomáš Staněk | Men's shot put | — | $18,500 |
| 625 | Bethwell Birgen | four disciplines | — | $18,250 |
| 626 | Laviai Nielsen | Women's 400 m | — | $18,250 |
| 627 | Paweł Wojciechowski | Men's pole vault | — | $18,250 |
| 628 | Susan Ejore | Women's 1500 m | — | $18,250 |
| 629 | Timothé Mumenthaler | two disciplines | — | $18,250 |
| 630 | Worknesh Mesele | three disciplines | — | $18,250 |
| 631 | Ashley Spencer | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $18,000 |
| 632 | Crystal Emmanuel | two disciplines | — | $18,000 |
| 633 | Cyréna Samba-Mayela | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $18,000 |
| 634 | Egide Ntakarutimana | two disciplines | — | $18,000 |
| 635 | Hobbs Kessler | four disciplines | — | $18,000 |
| 636 | Jaida Ross | Women's shot put | — | $18,000 |
| 637 | McKenzie Long | two disciplines | — | $18,000 |
| 638 | Roxana Gómez | Women's 400 m | — | $18,000 |
| 639 | Tsigie Gebreselama | two disciplines | 1 | $18,000 |
| 640 | Margaret Akidor | two disciplines | 1 | $17,750 |
| 641 | Shafiqua Maloney | two disciplines | — | $17,750 |
| 642 | Wilhem Belocian | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $17,750 |
| 643 | Winny Chebet | Women's 1500 m | — | $17,750 |
| 644 | Geordie Beamish | four disciplines | — | $17,500 |
| 645 | Kahmari Montgomery | Men's 400 m | — | $17,500 |
| 646 | Karl Bebendorf | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $17,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Laviai Nielsen is 626th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $18,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Laviai Nielsen most
Weltklasse Zürich 2019 paid $5,000 for 5th in the 400 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Stephenie Ann McPherson, Kendall Ellis, Jessica Beard, Salwa Eid Naser, Shakima Wimbley and Lisanne de Witte.
Müller Anniversary Games 2019 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the 400 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Anastasia Le-Roy, Justyna Święty-Ersetic, Emily Diamond, Anita Horvat, Amandine Brossier and Shericka Jackson.
Athletissima 2019 paid $3,000 for 4th in the 400 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Christine Botlogetswe, Justyna Święty-Ersetic, Courtney Okolo, Shericka Jackson, Salwa Eid Naser and Aminatou Seyni.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Laviai Nielsen won?
$18,250, which ranks 626th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from nine paid finishes between 2019 and 2025.
What is Laviai Nielsen's biggest Diamond League payday?
$5,000, for finishing 5th in the 400 m 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 Laviai Nielsen 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 400 m 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 Laviai Nielsen 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.
What did Laviai Nielsen's World Relays teams win?
$8,000, across one paid final in Gaborone 2026. The relays pay a team rather than a runner, so the cheque goes to the federation and not to Laviai Nielsen or to any one of the four. A title pays $40,000 and the ladder reaches all eight teams in a final, down to $2,000 for 8th.
Is this everything Laviai Nielsen earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 meetings. The World Relays 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 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 Laviai Nielsen is Bethwell Birgen on $18,250, and one below Paweł Wojciechowski on $18,250. Laviai Nielsen is one of 126 Great Britain athletes athletics has paid, and Great Britain athletics prize money adds them up to $3,411,000 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 400 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Laviai Nielsen 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 Doha Diamond League has its own page across every edition of it. World Relays prize money is the Guangzhou 2025 and Gaborone 2026 championships, $1,087,000 put up across 12 finals that pay a team and never a runner, and the relay is on the women's 4 × 400 metres relay page.