Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith prize money
Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith has been paid $417,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 15th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 75 paid finishes in the women's 100 m and women's 200 m, eleven 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 she finished, and what the card paid for it
The 75 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $417,250 is 75 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.4% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The World Championships
What Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 100 metres | 7th | 11.04 | $6,000 |
| Women's 200 metres | 7th | 22.62 | $6,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith $12,000 for two finishes in Tokyo, against $417,250 from 75 Diamond League starts between 2015 and 2025. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 100 m | 51 | 9 | 2015 to 2025 | $300,500 |
| Women's 200 m | 24 | 2 | 2016 to 2025 | $116,750 |
The women's 100 m has paid Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith $300,500 of the $417,250, which is 72% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2015 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | - | Meeting Areva | $2,000 |
| 2016 | 3 | - | Bauhausgalan | $8,000 |
| 2017 | 11 | 1 | AG Memorial Van Damme | $80,000 |
| 2018 | 10 | 5 | Doha Diamond League | $71,000 |
| 2019 | 8 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $36,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 9 | 1 | Bislett Games | $37,750 |
| 2022 | 9 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $32,750 |
| 2023 | 8 | 4 | Prefontaine Classic | $69,500 |
| 2024 | 8 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $31,250 |
| 2025 | 8 | - | Bislett Games | $49,000 |
season running total
2017 is the biggest of them, $80,000 from eleven starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith in 2020, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $417,250.
Around Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith on the money list
Ranks 1 to 41
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandra Elkasević | Women's discus throw | 46 | $692,750 |
| 2 | Armand Duplantis | Men's pole vault | 35 | $607,250 |
| 3 | Noah Lyles | two disciplines | 24 | $530,000 |
| 4 | Christian Taylor | three disciplines | 28 | $512,250 |
| 5 | Caterine Ibargüen | two disciplines | 37 | $501,000 |
| 6 | Sam Kendricks | Men's pole vault | 18 | $481,917 |
| 7 | Renaud Lavillenie | Men's pole vault | 33 | $466,833 |
| 8 | Femke Broeders-Bol | three disciplines | 29 | $456,000 |
| 9 | Mariya Lasitskene | Women's high jump | 26 | $440,500 |
| 10 | Shericka Jackson | three disciplines | 19 | $429,250 |
| 11 | Karsten Warholm | three disciplines | 18 | $428,500 |
| 12 | Sifan Hassan | five disciplines | 16 | $424,250 |
| 13 | Faith Kipyegon | six disciplines | 23 | $423,000 |
| 14 | Marileidy Paulino | two disciplines | 25 | $420,500 |
| 15 | Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith | two disciplines | 11 | $417,250 |
| 16 | Timothy Cheruiyot | four disciplines | 17 | $416,500 |
| 17 | Shaunae Miller-Uibo | three disciplines | 21 | $415,000 |
| 18 | Mutaz Barsham | Men's high jump | 23 | $409,833 |
| 19 | Joe Kovacs | Men's shot put | 18 | $406,500 |
| 20 | Dina Asher-Smith | two disciplines | 10 | $401,500 |
| 21 | Katerina Stefanidi | Women's pole vault | 15 | $394,500 |
| 22 | Valarie Sion | Women's discus throw | 20 | $389,000 |
| 23 | Soufiane El Bakkali | four disciplines | 22 | $388,500 |
| 24 | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | Women's high jump | 21 | $382,250 |
| 25 | Alison dos Santos | three disciplines | 22 | $380,500 |
| 26 | Elaine Thompson-Herah | two disciplines | 21 | $380,500 |
| 27 | Ivana Španović | two disciplines | 18 | $373,000 |
| 28 | Tom Walsh | Men's shot put | 13 | $372,000 |
| 29 | Pedro Pichardo | Men's triple jump | 17 | $370,500 |
| 30 | Barbora Špotáková | Women's javelin throw | 19 | $365,500 |
| 31 | Valerie Adams | Women's shot put | 30 | $361,500 |
| 32 | Daniel Ståhl | Men's discus throw | 13 | $355,750 |
| 33 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | four disciplines | 19 | $348,000 |
| 34 | Chase Jackson | Women's shot put | 18 | $347,500 |
| 35 | Blessing Okagbare | three disciplines | 11 | $338,250 |
| 36 | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | two disciplines | 21 | $335,000 |
| 37 | Emmanuel Wanyonyi | two disciplines | 15 | $321,500 |
| 38 | Julien Alfred | two disciplines | 13 | $316,000 |
| 39 | Piotr Małachowski | Men's discus throw | 18 | $312,500 |
| 40 | Kirani James | Men's 400 m | 17 | $310,250 |
| 41 | Ryan Crouser | Men's shot put | 15 | $310,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith is 15th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $417,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith most
AG Memorial Van Damme 2017 paid $20,000 for 2nd in the 100 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Blessing Okagbare, Michelle-Lee Ahye, Tianna Bartoletta, Morolake Akinosun, Jura Levy and Christania Williams.
Prefontaine Classic 2023 paid $12,000 for 2nd in the 100 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Elaine Thompson-Herah, Sha'Carri Richardson, Twanisha Terry, Natasha Morrison, Dina Asher-Smith and Imani-Lara Lansiquot.
Prefontaine Classic 2023 paid $12,000 for 2nd in the 200 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Anthonique Strachan, Twanisha Terry, Daryll Neita, Kayla White, Jenna Prandini and Tasa Jiya.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith won?
$417,250, which ranks 15th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 75 paid finishes between 2015 and 2025.
What is Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith's biggest Diamond League payday?
$20,000, for finishing 2nd in the 100 m at the 2017 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 Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith 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 win is worth the same in the women's 100 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 Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith won?
Eleven of 75, worth $110,000 between them. Eleven of her appearances came at a final, which paid $106,000.
How much did Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith win at the 2025 World Championships?
$12,000, from two paid finals in Tokyo. The championships pay eight places in every event, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th.
Is this everything Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Championships 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 Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith is Marileidy Paulino on $420,500, and one below Timothy Cheruiyot on $416,500. Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith is one of 8 Ivory Coast athletes athletics has paid, and Ivory Coast athletics prize money adds them up to $788,000 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 100 m prize money and women's 200 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith has been paid in two of them. The biggest of the rest are women's 100 m hurdles, women's 400 m and women's 800 m. Every meeting she 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. 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 100 metres and women's 200 metres pages.