Lea Meyer prize money
Lea Meyer has been paid $16,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 685th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from eleven paid finishes in the women's 3000 m steeplechase, the best of them 4th.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bauhausgalan 2026 | 3000 m steeplechase | 5th | $2,500 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2026 | 3000 m steeplechase | 7th | $1,500 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2026 | 3000 m steeplechase | 7th | $1,500 |
| Athletissima 2026 | 3000 m steeplechase | 10th | — |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2026 | 3000 m steeplechase | 9th | — |
| Bislett Games 2025 | 3000 m steeplechase | 4th | $3,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2025 | 3000 m steeplechase | 6th | $2,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2025 | 3000 m steeplechase | 8th | $1,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2024 | 3000 m steeplechase | 5th | $1,250 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 | 3000 m steeplechase | 8th | $1,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2024 | 3000 m steeplechase | 8th | $500 |
| Athletissima 2023 | 3000 m steeplechase | 8th | $500 |
| Bauhausgalan 2022 | 3000 m steeplechase | 5th | $1,250 |
| All thirteen | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $16,000 |
The eleven paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $16,000 is eleven 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. Two of the thirteen starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Lea Meyer did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 3000 metres steeplechase | 12th | 9:24.42 | — |
Lea Meyer stood in one 2025 World Championships final in Tokyo and finished outside the money. The championships pay eight places, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th, and nothing at all below that. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
Season by season
2022 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | — | Bauhausgalan | $1,250 |
| 2023 | 1 | — | Athletissima | $500 |
| 2024 | 3 | — | Meeting de Paris | $2,750 |
| 2025 | 3 | — | Bislett Games | $6,000 |
| 2026 | 5 | — | Bauhausgalan | $5,500 |
season running total
2025 is the biggest of them, $6,000 from three starts. Every season from 2022 to 2026 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $16,000.
Around Lea Meyer on the money list
Ranks 665 to 705
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 665 | Anass Essayi | two disciplines | — | $16,500 |
| 666 | Anthony Zambrano | Men's 400 m | 1 | $16,500 |
| 667 | Caroline Nyaga | two disciplines | — | $16,500 |
| 668 | Eliott Crestan | Men's 800 m | — | $16,500 |
| 669 | Elvira Herman | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $16,500 |
| 670 | Ewa Swoboda | Women's 100 m | — | $16,500 |
| 671 | Hanna Green | Women's 800 m | 1 | $16,500 |
| 672 | Jessica Beard | Women's 400 m | — | $16,500 |
| 673 | Liveta Jasiūnaitė | Women's javelin throw | — | $16,500 |
| 674 | Luxolo Adams | Men's 200 m | 1 | $16,500 |
| 675 | Zane Weir | Men's shot put | — | $16,500 |
| 676 | Safina Sadullayeva | Women's high jump | 1 | $16,375 |
| 677 | Brooke Buschkuehl | Women's long jump | — | $16,250 |
| 678 | Justyna Święty-Ersetic | Women's 400 m | — | $16,250 |
| 679 | Liemarvin Bonevacia | Men's 400 m | — | $16,250 |
| 680 | Nadezhda Dubovitskaya | Women's high jump | — | $16,250 |
| 681 | Amálie Švábíková | Women's pole vault | — | $16,000 |
| 682 | Baptiste Thiery | Men's pole vault | — | $16,000 |
| 683 | Cindy Roleder | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $16,000 |
| 684 | Gerald Drummond | two disciplines | 1 | $16,000 |
| 685 | Lea Meyer | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $16,000 |
| 686 | Natoya Goule-Toppin | two disciplines | — | $16,000 |
| 687 | Saida Tsehaye | Women's 800 m | — | $16,000 |
| 688 | Saron Berhe | three disciplines | — | $16,000 |
| 689 | Wang Jianan | Men's long jump | — | $16,000 |
| 690 | Jan Štefela | Men's high jump | — | $15,958 |
| 691 | Eliza McCartney | Women's pole vault | — | $15,875 |
| 692 | Brian Komen | Men's 1500 m | 1 | $15,750 |
| 693 | Lynna Irby | two disciplines | — | $15,750 |
| 694 | Paulien Couckuyt | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $15,750 |
| 695 | Thiago Braz | Men's pole vault | — | $15,750 |
| 696 | Antonio Alkana | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $15,500 |
| 697 | Baboloki Thebe | Men's 400 m | 1 | $15,500 |
| 698 | Courtney Wayment | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $15,500 |
| 699 | Jorge A. Hodelín | Men's long jump | — | $15,500 |
| 700 | Lynsey Sharp | Women's 800 m | — | $15,500 |
| 701 | Abdul Hakim Sani Brown | Men's 100 m | — | $15,250 |
| 702 | Beth Dobbin | Women's 200 m | — | $15,250 |
| 703 | Charles Simotwo | two disciplines | — | $15,250 |
| 704 | Jacko Gill | Men's shot put | — | $15,250 |
| 705 | Elena Vallortigara | Women's high jump | — | $15,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Lea Meyer is 685th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $16,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Lea Meyer most
Bislett Games 2025 paid $3,000 for 4th in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Lomi Muleta, Courtney Wayment, Elise Thorner, Gabrielle Jennings, Valerie Constien and Jackline Chepkoech.
Bauhausgalan 2026 paid $2,500 for 5th in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of sixteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Ilona Mononen, Alemnat Walle, Lexy Halladay-Lowry, Juliane Hvid, Olivia Markezich and Courtney Wayment.
Meeting de Paris 2025 paid $2,000 for 6th in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of twelve in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Angelina Napoleon, Alice Finot, Lomi Muleta, Gesa Felicitas Krause, Flavie Renouard and Faith Cherotich.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Lea Meyer won?
$16,000, which ranks 685th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from eleven paid finishes between 2022 and 2026.
What is Lea Meyer's biggest Diamond League payday?
$3,000, for finishing 4th in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2025 Bislett Games. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 4th and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Lea Meyer 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 3000 m steeplechase 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 Lea Meyer ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Two times. 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 are in the result tables on this site either way.
Is this everything Lea Meyer 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 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 Lea Meyer is Gerald Drummond on $16,000, and one below Natoya Goule-Toppin on $16,000. Lea Meyer is one of 81 Germany athletes athletics has paid, and Germany athletics prize money adds them up to $1,858,417 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 3000 m steeplechase prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Lea Meyer 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 Bauhausgalan 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 women's 3000 metres steeplechase page.