Marco Arop prize money
Marco Arop has been paid $162,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 157th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 28 paid finishes in the men's 800 m and men's 1000 m, five of them wins.
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
The 28 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $162,000 is 28 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.1% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The World Championships
What Marco Arop did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 800 metres | 3rd | 1:41.95 | $22,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Marco Arop $22,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $162,000 from 28 Diamond League starts between 2021 and 2026. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The Ultimate Championship
What Marco Arop did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 800 metres | 2nd | 1:42.28 | $75,000 |
The Ultimate Championship paid Marco Arop $75,000 for one finish over three days, against $162,000 from 28 Diamond League starts between 2021 and 2026. Three days there paid him more than any whole Diamond League season has. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
The Olympic Games
What Marco Arop won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Men's 800 metres | Silver | - |
The silver in the men's 800 metres paid nothing. Only a gold pays, so 97 of the 145 medals awarded on the athletics programme in Paris carried no money at all. The Olympic page holds all 48 golds, the $2,400,000 they paid and what the circuit pays the same champions.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Marco Arop
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 800 m | 27 | 5 | 2021 to 2026 | $156,000 |
| Men's 1000 m | 1 | - | 2022 | $6,000 |
The men's 800 m has paid Marco Arop $156,000 of the $162,000, which is 96% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2021 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | 1 | Athletissima | $27,000 |
| 2022 | 5 | 1 | Weltklasse Zürich | $32,750 |
| 2023 | 5 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $28,750 |
| 2024 | 4 | 2 | Xiamen Diamond League | $28,000 |
| 2025 | 4 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $18,500 |
| 2026 | 5 | 1 | Meeting de Paris | $27,000 |
season running total
2022 is the biggest of them, $32,750 from five starts. Every season from 2021 to 2026 paid him something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $162,000.
Around Marco Arop on the money list
Ranks 137 to 177
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 137 | Fedrick Dacres | Men's discus throw | 6 | $178,750 |
| 138 | Tianna Bartoletta | two disciplines | 8 | $177,750 |
| 139 | Larissa Iapichino | Women's long jump | 6 | $177,500 |
| 140 | Sally Pearson | Women's 100 m hurdles | 7 | $172,500 |
| 141 | Usain Bolt | two disciplines | 16 | $172,000 |
| 142 | Andriy Protsenko | Men's high jump | 3 | $171,250 |
| 143 | Emmanouil Karalis | Men's pole vault | 3 | $170,875 |
| 144 | Keely Hodgkinson | two disciplines | 9 | $170,500 |
| 145 | Marcin Lewandowski | four disciplines | 2 | $170,500 |
| 146 | Sarah Mitton | Women's shot put | 3 | $170,250 |
| 147 | Yuliya Levchenko | Women's high jump | 1 | $169,125 |
| 148 | Aaron Brown | two disciplines | 2 | $167,000 |
| 149 | Abeba Aregawi | four disciplines | 12 | $166,000 |
| 150 | David Rudisha | Men's 800 m | 14 | $166,000 |
| 151 | Neeraj Chopra | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $165,500 |
| 152 | Will Claye | two disciplines | 4 | $164,750 |
| 153 | Hansle Parchment | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $164,000 |
| 154 | Selemon Barega | four disciplines | 5 | $163,750 |
| 155 | Eunice Sum | two disciplines | 11 | $162,500 |
| 156 | Andrius Gudžius | Men's discus throw | 2 | $162,000 |
| 157 | Marco Arop | two disciplines | 5 | $162,000 |
| 158 | Anderson Peters | Men's javelin throw | 7 | $161,000 |
| 159 | Konstantinos Filippidis | Men's pole vault | 6 | $161,000 |
| 160 | Julian Weber | Men's javelin throw | 4 | $160,750 |
| 161 | Norah Jeruto | two disciplines | 6 | $160,750 |
| 162 | Tajay Gayle | Men's long jump | 4 | $160,250 |
| 163 | Sunette Viljoen | Women's javelin throw | 4 | $160,000 |
| 164 | Nickel Ashmeade | two disciplines | 6 | $159,500 |
| 165 | Jasmine Camacho-Quinn | Women's 100 m hurdles | 12 | $158,500 |
| 166 | Mike Rodgers | Men's 100 m | 1 | $157,000 |
| 167 | Brianna Rollins-McNeal | Women's 100 m hurdles | 6 | $155,000 |
| 168 | Abderrahman Samba | three disciplines | 7 | $154,500 |
| 169 | Jessica Schilder | Women's shot put | 5 | $153,250 |
| 170 | Silke Spiegelburg | Women's pole vault | 8 | $153,250 |
| 171 | Ruth Beitia | Women's high jump | 7 | $153,000 |
| 172 | Ruswahl Samaai | Men's long jump | 2 | $152,500 |
| 173 | Mary Moraa | three disciplines | 9 | $151,500 |
| 174 | Ryan Whiting | Men's shot put | 5 | $150,500 |
| 175 | Nadine Müller | Women's discus throw | 3 | $150,000 |
| 176 | Alexis Copello | Men's triple jump | 2 | $149,500 |
| 177 | Andreas Thorkildsen | Men's javelin throw | 10 | $149,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Marco Arop is 157th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $162,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Marco Arop most
Prefontaine Classic 2023 paid $12,000 for 2nd in the 800 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Djamel Sedjati, Yanis Meziane, Daniel Rowden, Bryce Hoppel, Benjamin Robert and Saúl Ordóñez.
Weltklasse Zürich 2022 paid $12,000 for 2nd in the 800 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Jake Wightman, Wycliffe Kinyamal, Bryce Hoppel, Andreas Kramer, Gabriel Tual and Benjamin Robert.
Meeting de Paris 2026 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 800 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Niels Laros, Tobias Grønstad, Ben Pattison, Eliott Crestan, Louey Ouerrat and Yanis Meziane.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Marco Arop won?
$162,000, which ranks 157th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 28 paid finishes between 2021 and 2026.
What is Marco Arop's biggest Diamond League payday?
$12,000, for finishing 2nd in the 800 m at the 2023 Prefontaine Classic. 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 Marco Arop 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 800 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 Marco Arop won?
Five of 28, worth $50,000 between them. Six of his appearances came at a final, which paid $46,000.
How much did Marco Arop win at the 2025 World Championships?
$22,000, from one paid final in Tokyo. The championships pay eight places in every event, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th.
How much did Marco Arop win at the Ultimate Championship?
$75,000, from one paid final at the 2026 championship in Budapest. World Athletics pays $150,000 for a win there, $75,000 for second and $40,000 for third, the same in all 26 individual events.
Is this everything Marco Arop earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Championships and Ultimate Championship 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 him, 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 Marco Arop is Andrius Gudžius on $162,000, and one below Anderson Peters on $161,000. Marco Arop is one of 70 Canada athletes athletics has paid, and Canada athletics prize money adds them up to $2,287,458 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 800 m prize money and men's 1000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Marco Arop has been paid in two of them. The biggest of the rest are men's 100 m, men's pole vault and men's 200 m. Every meeting he 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 final is on the men's 800 metres page. Ultimate Championship prize money is the 2026 championship in Budapest, $10,000,000 over three days, and the full final is on the men's 800 metres page.