Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith prize money
Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith has been paid $78,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 185th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from fourteen paid finishes in the women's 100 m and women'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 she finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bislett Games 2025 | 100 m | 2nd | $10,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2025 | 100 m | 3rd | $10,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2025 | 200 m | 3rd | $7,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2025 | 100 m | 3rd | $6,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2025 | 200 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2025 | 100 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2025 | 100 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Athletissima 2025 | 200 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2024 | 100 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Athletissima 2024 | 100 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| Herculis 2024 | 100 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Doha Diamond League 2018 | 100 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2017 | 100 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2017 | 200 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| All fourteen | two disciplines | — | $78,250 |
The fourteen paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $78,250 is fourteen separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.1% of the $53,753,250 the 104 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 $78,250 from fourteen Diamond League starts between 2017 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 | 10 | 1 | 2017 to 2025 | $59,250 |
| Women's 200 m | 4 | — | 2017 to 2025 | $19,000 |
The women's 100 m has paid Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith $59,250 of the $78,250, which is 76% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2017 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | — | Meeting de Paris | $10,000 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | Doha Diamond League | $10,000 |
| 2019 | — | — | — | — |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | — | — | — | — |
| 2023 | — | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 3 | — | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $9,250 |
| 2025 | 8 | — | Bislett Games | $49,000 |
season running total
2025 is the biggest of them, $49,000 from eight starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $78,250.
Around Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith on the money list
Ranks 165 to 205
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 165 | Birhanu Balew | two disciplines | 2 | $85,750 |
| 166 | Selemon Barega | four disciplines | 3 | $85,750 |
| 167 | Hagos Gebrhiwet | Men's 5000 m | 3 | $85,500 |
| 168 | Diribe Welteji | three disciplines | 4 | $85,250 |
| 169 | Payton Otterdahl | Men's shot put | 2 | $83,750 |
| 170 | Anna Ryzhykova | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $83,500 |
| 171 | Hyvin Jepkemoi | two disciplines | 4 | $82,500 |
| 172 | Joshua Cheptegei | three disciplines | 2 | $82,500 |
| 173 | Kelsey-Lee Barber | Women's javelin throw | 1 | $82,500 |
| 174 | Yan Ziyi | Women's javelin throw | 5 | $82,500 |
| 175 | Juan Miguel Echevarría | Men's long jump | 3 | $82,000 |
| 176 | Maggie Ewen | Women's shot put | 1 | $82,000 |
| 177 | Devon Allen | Men's 110 m hurdles | 4 | $81,500 |
| 178 | Thea LaFond | Women's triple jump | 1 | $81,500 |
| 179 | Orlando Ortega | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $81,000 |
| 180 | CJ Allen | two disciplines | 1 | $80,750 |
| 181 | Daniel Roberts | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $79,750 |
| 182 | Ferguson Rotich | two disciplines | 2 | $79,250 |
| 183 | Devynne Charlton | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $78,750 |
| 184 | Ferdinand Omanyala | Men's 100 m | 2 | $78,250 |
| 185 | Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith | two disciplines | 1 | $78,250 |
| 186 | Sada Williams | Women's 400 m | — | $78,250 |
| 187 | EJ Obiena | Men's pole vault | 1 | $78,125 |
| 188 | Ramil Guliyev | Men's 200 m | 3 | $78,000 |
| 189 | Molly Caudery | Women's pole vault | 3 | $77,500 |
| 190 | Lü Huihui | Women's javelin throw | 3 | $77,250 |
| 191 | Medina Eisa | two disciplines | 3 | $77,000 |
| 192 | Oleh Doroshchuk | Men's high jump | 2 | $76,250 |
| 193 | Nijel Amos | Men's 800 m | 5 | $76,000 |
| 194 | Sydney McLaughlin | two disciplines | 3 | $76,000 |
| 195 | Linden Hall | four disciplines | 1 | $75,250 |
| 196 | Ronald Levy | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $75,250 |
| 197 | Ackeem Blake | Men's 100 m | 1 | $75,000 |
| 198 | Jemma Reekie | four disciplines | 1 | $73,750 |
| 199 | Zakithi Nene | Men's 400 m | 2 | $73,750 |
| 200 | Auriol Dongmo | Women's shot put | 3 | $73,500 |
| 201 | Tsige Duguma | two disciplines | 4 | $73,250 |
| 202 | Klaudia Kazimierska | two disciplines | 1 | $73,000 |
| 203 | Yasser Triki | Men's triple jump | 1 | $73,000 |
| 204 | Christin Hussong | Women's javelin throw | 3 | $72,750 |
| 205 | Samuel Firewu | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 2 | $72,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith is 185th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $78,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith most
Bislett Games 2025 paid $10,000 for 2nd in the 100 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Dina Asher-Smith, Patrizia Van der Weken, Maia McCoy, Gina Lückenkemper, Daryll Neita and Zaynab Dosso.
Weltklasse Zürich 2025 paid $10,000 for 3rd in the 100 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Dina Asher-Smith, Jacious Sears, Zoe Hobbs, Maia McCoy, Salomé Kora and Patrizia Van der Weken.
Doha Diamond League 2018 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 100 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Blessing Okagbare, Elaine Thompson-Herah, Murielle Ahouré-Demps, Carina Horn, Dafne Schippers and Mujinga Kambundji.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith won?
$78,250, which ranks 185th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from fourteen paid finishes between 2017 and 2025.
What is Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 2nd in the Diamond+ 100 m 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 2nd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
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?
One of fourteen, worth $10,000 between them. Two of her appearances came at a final, which paid $17,000.
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 104 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 2,112 athletes across the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith is Ferdinand Omanyala on $78,250, and one below Sada Williams on $78,250. 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 $359,500 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 800 m and women's 400 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.