Luxolo Adams prize money
Luxolo Adams has been paid $16,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 674th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from three paid finishes in the men's 200 m, one of them a win.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bislett Games 2023 | 200 m | 8th | $500 |
| Meeting de Paris 2022 | 200 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2022 | 200 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| All three | Men's 200 m | — | $16,500 |
The three paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $16,500 is three 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.
Season by season
2022 to 2023, in the order it was won
season running total
2022 is the biggest of them, $16,000 from two starts. Every season from 2022 to 2023 paid him something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $16,500.
Around Luxolo Adams on the money list
Ranks 654 to 694
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 654 | Filippo Randazzo | Men's long jump | 1 | $17,000 |
| 655 | Fotyen Tesfay | two disciplines | — | $17,000 |
| 656 | Ludvy Vaillant | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $17,000 |
| 657 | Michał Haratyk | Men's shot put | — | $17,000 |
| 658 | Neja Filipič | Women's triple jump | — | $17,000 |
| 659 | Piotr Małachowski | Men's discus throw | — | $17,000 |
| 660 | Tiago Pereira | Men's triple jump | — | $17,000 |
| 661 | Xie Wenjun | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $17,000 |
| 662 | Dariya Derkach | Women's triple jump | — | $16,750 |
| 663 | Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye | Women's 100 m | 1 | $16,750 |
| 664 | Katie Nageotte | Women's pole vault | — | $16,750 |
| 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 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Luxolo Adams is 674th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $16,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Luxolo Adams most
Meeting de Paris 2022 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 200 m, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Alexander Ogando, Mouhamadou Fall, Andre De Grasse, Fausto Desalu, Yancarlos Martínez and Benjamin Azamati.
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2022 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 200 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Fausto Desalu, Yancarlos Martínez, Jerome Blake, Isaac Makwala, William Reais and Mehdi Takordmioui.
Bislett Games 2023 paid $500 for 8th in the 200 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Erriyon Knighton, Reynier Mena, Joseph Fahnbulleh, Alexander Ogando, Andre De Grasse and Joshua Hartmann.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Luxolo Adams won?
$16,500, which ranks 674th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from three paid finishes between 2022 and 2023.
What is Luxolo Adams's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 200 m at the 2022 Meeting de Paris. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 1st and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Luxolo Adams 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 win is worth the same in the men's 200 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.
How many Diamond League meetings has Luxolo Adams won?
One of three, worth $10,000 between them. He has not been paid at a Diamond League final.
Is this everything Luxolo Adams 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 Luxolo Adams is Liveta Jasiūnaitė on $16,500, and one below Zane Weir on $16,500. Luxolo Adams is one of 34 South Africa athletes athletics has paid, and South Africa athletics prize money adds them up to $993,000 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 200 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Luxolo Adams 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 Bislett Games has its own page across every edition of it.