Lea Meyer prize money
Lea Meyer has been paid $16,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1286th of the 3,683 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 0.01% of the $113,397,000 the 224 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 1266 to 1306
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1266 | Hanna Green | Women's 800 m | 1 | $16,500 |
| 1267 | Liveta Jasiūnaitė | Women's javelin throw | - | $16,500 |
| 1268 | Martin Kupper | Men's discus throw | - | $16,500 |
| 1269 | Molly Huddle | two disciplines | - | $16,500 |
| 1270 | Randy Lewis | Men's triple jump | - | $16,500 |
| 1271 | Yahya Berrabah | Men's long jump | - | $16,500 |
| 1272 | Zane Weir | Men's shot put | - | $16,500 |
| 1273 | Safina Sadullayeva | Women's high jump | 1 | $16,375 |
| 1274 | Jacko Gill | Men's shot put | - | $16,250 |
| 1275 | Nadezhda Dubovitskaya | Women's high jump | - | $16,250 |
| 1276 | Amálie Švábíková | Women's pole vault | - | $16,000 |
| 1277 | Ashton Eaton | three disciplines | - | $16,000 |
| 1278 | Baptiste Thiery | Men's pole vault | - | $16,000 |
| 1279 | Barnabas Kipyego | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $16,000 |
| 1280 | Ezinne Okparaebo | Women's 100 m | - | $16,000 |
| 1281 | Fabrizio Schembri | Men's triple jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1282 | Gerald Drummond | two disciplines | 1 | $16,000 |
| 1283 | Jak Ali Harvey | Men's 100 m | 1 | $16,000 |
| 1284 | Josephine Terlecki | Women's shot put | - | $16,000 |
| 1285 | Kafétien Gomis | Men's long jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1286 | Lea Meyer | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $16,000 |
| 1287 | Mariya Savinova | Women's 800 m | 4 | $16,000 |
| 1288 | Mason Finley | Men's discus throw | - | $16,000 |
| 1289 | Mickaël Hanany | Men's high jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1290 | Mohamed Moustaoui | two disciplines | - | $16,000 |
| 1291 | Morten Jensen | Men's long jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1292 | Radek Juška | Men's long jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1293 | Saida Tsehaye | Women's 800 m | - | $16,000 |
| 1294 | Samantha Henry-Robinson | two disciplines | - | $16,000 |
| 1295 | Saron Berhe | three disciplines | - | $16,000 |
| 1296 | Yosiris Urrutia | Women's triple jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1297 | Yuliya Zaripova | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $16,000 |
| 1298 | Jan Štefela | Men's high jump | - | $15,958 |
| 1299 | Brian Komen | Men's 1500 m | 1 | $15,750 |
| 1300 | Deon Lendore | Men's 400 m | - | $15,750 |
| 1301 | Dusty Jonas | Men's high jump | - | $15,750 |
| 1302 | Kaylin Whitney | two disciplines | - | $15,750 |
| 1303 | Paulien Couckuyt | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $15,750 |
| 1304 | Tonje Angelsen | Women's high jump | - | $15,583 |
| 1305 | Adam Nelson | Men's shot put | - | $15,500 |
| 1306 | Aleksandra Fedoriva-Spayer | Women's 200 m | - | $15,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Lea Meyer is 1286th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 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 1286th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 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. Those starts 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 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 Lea Meyer is Kafétien Gomis on $16,000, and one below Mariya Savinova on $16,000. Lea Meyer is one of 139 Germany athletes athletics has paid, and Germany athletics prize money adds them up to $4,199,250 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 400 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.