Lynna Irby prize money
Lynna Irby has been paid $18,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1188th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from nine paid finishes in the women's 400 m and women's 200 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meeting de Paris 2025 | 400 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 | 400 m | 4th | $4,000 |
| London Athletics Meet 2024 | 400 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2023 | 400 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2023 | 400 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2023 | 400 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2023 | 400 m | 7th | $750 |
| Doha Diamond League 2022 | 400 m | 8th | $500 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2021 | 200 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| All nine | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
The nine paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $18,750 is nine separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.02% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The World Championships
What Lynna Irby did in Tokyo, 2025
Lynna Irby went to the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo on a relay and ran no individual final there. She ran on the United States team that won the women's 4 × 400 metres relay, $80,000 to the federation rather than to any one of the four. She ran on the United States team that won the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay, $80,000 to the federation rather than to any one of the four. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The World Athletics Relays
What Lynna Irby ran on
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay | 1st | 3:09.54 | $40,000 |
The World Relays have paid $40,000 for the one team Lynna Irby ran on in Guangzhou 2025, and all of it went to the United States rather than to the four who ran. The $18,750 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. She was on the winning team once, which pays $40,000 against $20,000 for second. She ran alongside Chris Robinson, Courtney Okolo and Johnnie Blockburger, and the Diamond League has paid every one of them too. The World Relays page holds all 12 finals across two championships and the $1,067,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Lynna Irby
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 400 m | 8 | - | 2022 to 2025 | $17,750 |
| Women's 200 m | 1 | - | 2021 | $1,000 |
The women's 400 m has paid Lynna Irby $17,750 of the $18,750, which is 95% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2021 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $1,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | - | Doha Diamond League | $500 |
| 2023 | 4 | - | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $9,250 |
| 2024 | 2 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $5,000 |
| 2025 | 1 | - | Meeting de Paris | $3,000 |
season running total
2023 is the biggest of them, $9,250 from four starts. Every season from 2021 to 2025 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $18,750.
Around Lynna Irby on the money list
Ranks 1168 to 1208
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1168 | Patricia Hall | two disciplines | - | $19,500 |
| 1169 | Tia Hellebaut | Women's high jump | - | $19,500 |
| 1170 | Yvette Lewis | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $19,500 |
| 1171 | Dylan Beard | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $19,250 |
| 1172 | Fantu Worku | two disciplines | - | $19,250 |
| 1173 | Heather MacLean | two disciplines | - | $19,250 |
| 1174 | Lisanne de Witte | Women's 400 m | - | $19,250 |
| 1175 | Oliver Helander | Men's javelin throw | - | $19,250 |
| 1176 | Asmir Kolašinac | Men's shot put | - | $19,000 |
| 1177 | Boris Berian | Men's 800 m | 1 | $19,000 |
| 1178 | Cole Walsh | Men's pole vault | - | $19,000 |
| 1179 | Elvira Herman | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $19,000 |
| 1180 | Gabriela Petrova | Women's triple jump | - | $19,000 |
| 1181 | Jasmine Jones | two disciplines | - | $19,000 |
| 1182 | Joanna Atkins | two disciplines | - | $19,000 |
| 1183 | Kalkidan Gezahegne | two disciplines | - | $19,000 |
| 1184 | Parker Wolfe | two disciplines | 1 | $19,000 |
| 1185 | Robert Gregory | Men's 200 m | - | $19,000 |
| 1186 | Brahim Kaazouzi | Men's 1500 m | 1 | $18,750 |
| 1187 | Lamara Distin | Women's high jump | - | $18,750 |
| 1188 | Lynna Irby | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1189 | Mekides Abebe | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1190 | Michaela Meijer | Women's pole vault | - | $18,750 |
| 1191 | Shane Brathwaite | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $18,750 |
| 1192 | Zerfe Wondemagegn | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1193 | Charlene Lipsey | Women's 800 m | - | $18,500 |
| 1194 | Christin Wurth-Thomas | two disciplines | 1 | $18,500 |
| 1195 | Khadevis Robinson | Men's 800 m | 1 | $18,500 |
| 1196 | Lyukman Adams | Men's triple jump | 2 | $18,500 |
| 1197 | Michael Bingham | Men's 400 m | - | $18,500 |
| 1198 | Sheri-Ann Brooks | two disciplines | - | $18,500 |
| 1199 | Dariya Derkach | Women's triple jump | - | $18,250 |
| 1200 | Susan Ejore | Women's 1500 m | - | $18,250 |
| 1201 | Timothé Mumenthaler | two disciplines | - | $18,250 |
| 1202 | Worknesh Mesele | three disciplines | - | $18,250 |
| 1203 | Vita Styopina | Women's high jump | - | $18,083 |
| 1204 | Oksana Okuneva | Women's high jump | - | $18,050 |
| 1205 | Brahim Taleb | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $18,000 |
| 1206 | Brigitte Ann Foster-Hylton | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1207 | Cyréna Samba-Mayela | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $18,000 |
| 1208 | Egide Ntakarutimana | two disciplines | - | $18,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Lynna Irby is 1188th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $18,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Lynna Irby most
AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 paid $4,000 for 4th in the 400 m, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Lieke Klaver, Amandine Brossier, Sada Williams, Marileidy Paulino, Alexis Holmes and Rhasidat Adeleke.
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2023 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 400 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Roxana Gómez, Aliyah Abrams, Anna Kiełbasińska, Candice McLeod, Alice Mangione and Natalia Bukowiecka.
Xiamen Diamond League 2023 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 400 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Sada Williams, Victoria Ohuruogu, Talitha Diggs, Martina Weil, Ama Pipi and Marileidy Paulino.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Lynna Irby won?
$18,750, which ranks 1188th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from nine paid finishes between 2021 and 2025.
What is Lynna Irby's biggest Diamond League payday?
$4,000, for finishing 4th in the 400 m at the 2024 AG Memorial Van Damme. 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 Lynna Irby 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.
What did Lynna Irby's World Relays teams win?
$40,000, across one paid final in Guangzhou 2025. The relays pay a team rather than a runner, so the cheque goes to the federation and not to Lynna Irby 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 Lynna Irby earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 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 3,683 athletes across the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Lynna Irby is Lamara Distin on $18,750, and one below Mekides Abebe on $18,750. Lynna Irby is one of 659 United States athletes athletics has paid, and United States athletics prize money adds them up to $29,436,125 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 400 m prize money and women's 200 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Lynna Irby has been paid in two 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 Meeting de Paris 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 finals are on the women's 4 × 400 metres relay and mixed 4 × 400 metres relay pages. 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 mixed 4 × 400 metres relay page.