Marina Aitova prize money
Marina Aitova has been paid $15,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1330th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from five paid finishes in the women's high jump, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shanghai Golden Grand Prix 2012 | High jump | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Bislett Games 2012 | High jump | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Meeting Areva 2012 | High jump | 7th | $1,500 |
| Herculis 2011 | High jump | 4th | $3,000 |
| Shanghai Golden Grand Prix 2011 | High jump | 5th | $2,500 |
| All five | Women's high jump | - | $15,000 |
The five paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $15,000 is five separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.01% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
Season by season
2011 to 2012, in the order it was won
season running total
2012 is the biggest of them, $9,500 from three starts. Every season from 2011 to 2012 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $15,000.
Around Marina Aitova on the money list
Ranks 1310 to 1350
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1310 | Gabriele Grunewald | two disciplines | - | $15,500 |
| 1311 | Huang Changzhou | Men's long jump | - | $15,500 |
| 1312 | Jorge A. Hodelín | Men's long jump | - | $15,500 |
| 1313 | Meselech Melkamu | two disciplines | - | $15,500 |
| 1314 | Olga Kucherenko | Women's long jump | 2 | $15,500 |
| 1315 | Olha Lyakhova | Women's 800 m | - | $15,500 |
| 1316 | Steve Mullings | two disciplines | 1 | $15,500 |
| 1317 | Xiangrong Liu | Women's shot put | - | $15,500 |
| 1318 | Yoann Rapinier | Men's triple jump | - | $15,500 |
| 1319 | Yuliya Golubchikova | Women's pole vault | - | $15,500 |
| 1320 | Abdul Hakim Sani Brown | Men's 100 m | - | $15,250 |
| 1321 | Beth Dobbin | Women's 200 m | - | $15,250 |
| 1322 | Seito Yamamoto | Men's pole vault | - | $15,250 |
| 1323 | Ainsley Waugh | two disciplines | - | $15,000 |
| 1324 | Andrew Bayer | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $15,000 |
| 1325 | Dan Taylor | Men's shot put | - | $15,000 |
| 1326 | James Dasaolu | Men's 100 m | - | $15,000 |
| 1327 | Khaleb McRae | Men's 400 m | - | $15,000 |
| 1328 | Lázaro Borges | Men's pole vault | - | $15,000 |
| 1329 | Margaryta Dorozhon | Women's javelin throw | 1 | $15,000 |
| 1330 | Marina Aitova | Women's high jump | - | $15,000 |
| 1331 | Ngonidzashe Makusha | Men's long jump | 1 | $15,000 |
| 1332 | Obi Igbokwe | Men's 400 m | - | $15,000 |
| 1333 | Schillonie Calvert-Powell | Women's 100 m | - | $15,000 |
| 1334 | Stanley Kebenei | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $15,000 |
| 1335 | Torrie Lewis | two disciplines | 1 | $15,000 |
| 1336 | Yelena Kotulskaya | Women's 800 m | 1 | $15,000 |
| 1337 | Daniel Rowden | Men's 800 m | - | $14,750 |
| 1338 | Genevieve Gregson | three disciplines | - | $14,750 |
| 1339 | Jake Heyward | two disciplines | - | $14,750 |
| 1340 | Jérôme Clavier | Men's pole vault | - | $14,750 |
| 1341 | Alana Boyd | Women's pole vault | - | $14,583 |
| 1342 | Alicia Monson | two disciplines | - | $14,500 |
| 1343 | Bernard Nganga | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $14,500 |
| 1344 | Birtukan Adamu | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $14,500 |
| 1345 | Caleb Dean | two disciplines | - | $14,500 |
| 1346 | Hannah England | two disciplines | - | $14,500 |
| 1347 | Harold Correa | Men's triple jump | - | $14,500 |
| 1348 | Jorge Fernández | Men's discus throw | - | $14,500 |
| 1349 | Kendry Menéndez | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $14,500 |
| 1350 | Kristin Gierisch | Women's triple jump | - | $14,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Marina Aitova is 1330th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $15,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Marina Aitova most
Shanghai Golden Grand Prix 2012 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the high jump, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Inika McPherson, Svetlana Radzivil, Airinė Palšytė, Vita Styopina, Levern Spencer and Chaunte Lowe.
Bislett Games 2012 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the high jump, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Anna Iljuštšenko, Ruth Beitia, Øyunn Grindem Mogstad, Tonje Angelsen, Stine Kufaas and Chaunte Lowe.
Herculis 2011 paid $3,000 for 4th in the high jump, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Brigetta Barrett, Elizabeth Patterson, Ebba Jungmark, Emma Green, Blanka Vlašić and Doreen Amata.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Marina Aitova won?
$15,000, which ranks 1330th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from five paid finishes between 2011 and 2012.
What is Marina Aitova's biggest Diamond League payday?
$4,000, for finishing 3rd in the high jump at the 2012 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 3rd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Marina Aitova 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 high jump 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.
Is this everything Marina Aitova earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 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 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 Marina Aitova is Margaryta Dorozhon on $15,000, and one below Ngonidzashe Makusha on $15,000. Marina Aitova is one of 9 Kazakhstan athletes athletics has paid, and Kazakhstan athletics prize money adds them up to $557,500 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's high jump prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Marina Aitova has been paid in one of them. The biggest of the rest are women's 100 m, women's 100 m hurdles and women's 400 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Shanghai Golden Grand Prix has its own page across every edition of it.