Lawrence Okoye prize money
Lawrence Okoye has been paid $23,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 548th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from fourteen paid finishes in the men's discus throw, 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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shanghai Diamond League 2026 | Discus throw | 4th | $3,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2026 | Discus throw | 7th | $1,500 |
| Bauhausgalan 2026 | Discus throw | 8th | $1,000 |
| London Athletics Meet 2025 | Discus throw | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2025 | Discus throw | 6th | $2,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2025 | Discus throw | 7th | $1,500 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2023 | Discus throw | 5th | $2,500 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2023 | Discus throw | 4th | $2,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2023 | Discus throw | 5th | $1,250 |
| London Athletics Meet 2023 | Discus throw | 6th | $1,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2023 | Discus throw | 7th | $750 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2022 | Discus throw | 5th | $1,250 |
| Bauhausgalan 2022 | Discus throw | 6th | $1,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2022 | Discus throw | 7th | $750 |
| Müller Anniversary Games 2019 | Discus throw | 9th | — |
| All fifteen | Men's discus throw | — | $23,500 |
The fourteen paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $23,500 is fourteen separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.04% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the fifteen starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Season by season
2019 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | — | Müller Anniversary Games | — |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 3 | — | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $3,000 |
| 2023 | 5 | — | Prefontaine Classic | $7,500 |
| 2024 | — | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 3 | — | London Athletics Meet | $7,500 |
| 2026 | 3 | — | Shanghai Diamond League | $5,500 |
season running total
2023 is the biggest of them, $7,500 from five starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Lawrence Okoye in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2024, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $23,500.
Around Lawrence Okoye on the money list
Ranks 528 to 568
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 528 | Elliot Giles | three disciplines | — | $25,000 |
| 529 | Keturah Orji | Women's triple jump | — | $25,000 |
| 530 | Maykel Massó | Men's long jump | 1 | $25,000 |
| 531 | Yemisi Mabry | Women's shot put | — | $25,000 |
| 532 | Chukwuebuka Enekwechi | Men's shot put | — | $24,750 |
| 533 | Murielle Ahouré-Demps | two disciplines | 1 | $24,750 |
| 534 | Ethan Strand | two disciplines | 1 | $24,500 |
| 535 | Imogen Ayris | Women's pole vault | — | $24,500 |
| 536 | Nadia Battocletti | three disciplines | 1 | $24,500 |
| 537 | Andreas Kramer | Men's 800 m | — | $24,000 |
| 538 | Mike Rodgers | Men's 100 m | — | $24,000 |
| 539 | Mohamed Amin Jhinaoui | two disciplines | — | $24,000 |
| 540 | Natasha Morrison | two disciplines | — | $24,000 |
| 541 | Olivia McTaggart | Women's pole vault | 1 | $24,000 |
| 542 | Robeilys Peinado | Women's pole vault | — | $23,750 |
| 543 | Thierry Ndikumwenayo | two disciplines | 1 | $23,750 |
| 544 | Erika Kinsey | Women's high jump | — | $23,583 |
| 545 | Britany Anderson | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $23,500 |
| 546 | CJ Ujah | Men's 100 m | — | $23,500 |
| 547 | George Mills | four disciplines | — | $23,500 |
| 548 | Lawrence Okoye | Men's discus throw | — | $23,500 |
| 549 | Konrad Bukowiecki | Men's shot put | 1 | $23,250 |
| 550 | Agate de Sousa | Women's long jump | — | $23,000 |
| 551 | Alessandro Sibilio | Men's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $23,000 |
| 552 | Darrell Hill | Men's shot put | — | $23,000 |
| 553 | Dawit Seyaum | two disciplines | 2 | $23,000 |
| 554 | Jeremiah Azu | Men's 100 m | — | $23,000 |
| 555 | Maria Andrejczyk | Women's javelin throw | — | $23,000 |
| 556 | Marthe Koala | Women's long jump | 1 | $23,000 |
| 557 | Tori Peeters | Women's javelin throw | — | $23,000 |
| 558 | Kuma Girma | three disciplines | — | $22,750 |
| 559 | Tori Franklin | Women's triple jump | — | $22,750 |
| 560 | Agathe Guillemot | three disciplines | — | $22,500 |
| 561 | Armin Sinančević | Men's shot put | — | $22,500 |
| 562 | Ralford Mullings | Men's discus throw | 1 | $22,500 |
| 563 | Ronald Musagala | two disciplines | 1 | $22,500 |
| 564 | Roshawn Clarke | Men's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $22,500 |
| 565 | Filippo Tortu | two disciplines | — | $22,250 |
| 566 | Henrik Janssen | Men's discus throw | — | $22,000 |
| 567 | Angelica Bengtsson | Women's pole vault | 1 | $21,500 |
| 568 | Senayet Getachew | two disciplines | — | $21,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Lawrence Okoye is 548th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $23,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Lawrence Okoye most
London Athletics Meet 2025 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the discus throw, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Daniel Ståhl, Rojé Stona, Henrik Janssen, Claudio Romero, Nicholas Percy and Mykolas Alekna.
Shanghai Diamond League 2026 paid $3,000 for 4th in the discus throw, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Steven Richter, Rojé Stona, Sam Mattis, Lukas Weißhaidinger, Alex Rose and Kristjan Čeh.
Prefontaine Classic 2023 paid $2,500 for 5th in the discus throw, one of six in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Sam Mattis, Matthew Denny, Kristjan Čeh, Daniel Ståhl and Andrius Gudžius.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Lawrence Okoye won?
$23,500, which ranks 548th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from fourteen paid finishes between 2019 and 2026.
What is Lawrence Okoye's biggest Diamond League payday?
$4,000, for finishing 3rd in the discus throw at the 2025 London Athletics Meet. 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 Lawrence Okoye 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 place is worth the same in the men's discus 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.
Has Lawrence Okoye 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. He is in the result table on this site either way.
Is this everything Lawrence Okoye earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 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 2,112 athletes across the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Lawrence Okoye is George Mills on $23,500, and one below Konrad Bukowiecki on $23,250. Lawrence Okoye 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 men's discus throw prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Lawrence Okoye 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 Shanghai Diamond League has its own page across every edition of it.