Max Heß prize money
Max Heß has been paid $48,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 636th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from sixteen paid finishes in the men's triple jump, the best of them 2nd.
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
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bislett Games 2025 | Triple jump | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2025 | Triple jump | 6th | $2,000 |
| Herculis EBS 2025 | Triple jump | 8th | $1,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 | Triple jump | 2nd | $12,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2024 | Triple jump | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2024 | Triple jump | 4th | $2,000 |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2024 | Triple jump | 10th | - |
| Bislett Games 2021 | Triple jump | 5th | $1,250 |
| Meeting de Paris 2021 | Triple jump | 6th | $1,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2021 | Triple jump | 7th | $750 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2018 | Triple jump | 6th | $4,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2018 | Triple jump | 6th | $2,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2018 | Triple jump | 8th | $1,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2017 | Triple jump | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2017 | Triple jump | 7th | $1,500 |
| Bislett Games 2016 | Triple jump | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2016 | Triple jump | 6th | $2,000 |
| All 17 | Men's triple jump | - | $48,500 |
The sixteen paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $48,500 is sixteen separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.04% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the 17 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Indoor Championships
What Max Heß did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's triple jump | 6th | 17.03 m | $4,000 |
The World Indoor Championships have paid Max Heß $4,000 for one finish in Nanjing 2025, against $48,500 from 17 Diamond League starts between 2016 and 2025. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
Season by season
2016 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 | - | Bislett Games | $6,000 |
| 2017 | 2 | - | Meeting de Paris | $5,500 |
| 2018 | 3 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $7,000 |
| 2019 | - | - | - | - |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 3 | - | Bislett Games | $3,000 |
| 2022 | - | - | - | - |
| 2023 | - | - | - | - |
| 2024 | 4 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $20,000 |
| 2025 | 3 | - | Bislett Games | $7,000 |
season running total
2024 is the biggest of them, $20,000 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Max Heß in 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $48,500.
Around Max Heß on the money list
Ranks 616 to 656
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 616 | Zhang Guowei | Men's high jump | 1 | $50,250 |
| 617 | Athing Mu | Women's 800 m | 3 | $50,000 |
| 618 | Chris Benard | Men's triple jump | - | $50,000 |
| 619 | Edmund Serem | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $50,000 |
| 620 | Ignisious Gaisah | Men's long jump | - | $50,000 |
| 621 | Matheus Lima | two disciplines | - | $50,000 |
| 622 | Sinesipho Dambile | Men's 200 m | 1 | $50,000 |
| 623 | Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui | two disciplines | 1 | $49,750 |
| 624 | Joseph Fahnbulleh | Men's 200 m | - | $49,750 |
| 625 | Kyree King | two disciplines | - | $49,750 |
| 626 | Rachid Muratake | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $49,750 |
| 627 | Debbie Dunn | Women's 400 m | - | $49,500 |
| 628 | Denisa Rosolová | two disciplines | - | $49,500 |
| 629 | Sarah Healy | four disciplines | 1 | $49,500 |
| 630 | Celliphine Chespol | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $49,250 |
| 631 | Sasha Zhoya | Men's 110 m hurdles | 2 | $49,250 |
| 632 | Antti Ruuskanen | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $49,000 |
| 633 | Baboloki Thebe | Men's 400 m | 1 | $49,000 |
| 634 | Kemi Adekoya | two disciplines | 1 | $49,000 |
| 635 | Sara Petersen | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $48,750 |
| 636 | Max Heß | Men's triple jump | - | $48,500 |
| 637 | Pavel Maslák | Men's 400 m | - | $48,500 |
| 638 | Wenda Nel | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $48,500 |
| 639 | Tia Clayton | Women's 100 m | 2 | $48,250 |
| 640 | Ari Mannio | Men's javelin throw | - | $48,000 |
| 641 | Courtney Okolo | Women's 400 m | - | $48,000 |
| 642 | Khallifah Rosser | Men's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $48,000 |
| 643 | Leevan Sands | Men's triple jump | 1 | $48,000 |
| 644 | Lydia Chebet Rotich | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $48,000 |
| 645 | Vikas Gowda | Men's discus throw | - | $48,000 |
| 646 | Virginia Nyambura | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $48,000 |
| 647 | Wilfried Happio | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $48,000 |
| 648 | Aleia Hobbs | Women's 100 m | 2 | $47,750 |
| 649 | Amel Tuka | Men's 800 m | 1 | $47,750 |
| 650 | Līna Mūze | Women's javelin throw | - | $47,250 |
| 651 | Matteo Sioli | Men's high jump | 2 | $47,250 |
| 652 | Werkuha Getachew | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 2 | $47,250 |
| 653 | Davisleydi Velazco | Women's triple jump | 2 | $47,000 |
| 654 | Laulauga Tausaga | Women's discus throw | - | $47,000 |
| 655 | Laura Weightman | four disciplines | - | $47,000 |
| 656 | Xie Wenjun | Men's 110 m hurdles | 1 | $47,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Max Heß is 636th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $48,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Max Heß most
AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 paid $12,000 for 2nd in the triple jump, one of six in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Hugues Fabrice Zango, Almir dos Santos, Lázaro Martínez, Jean-Marc Pontvianne and Pedro Pichardo.
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2024 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the triple jump, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Almir dos Santos, Hugues Fabrice Zango, Lázaro Martínez, Tiago Pereira, Jean-Marc Pontvianne and Andrea Dallavalle.
Bislett Games 2025 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the triple jump, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Lázaro Martínez, Yasser Triki, Ethan Olivier, Hugues Fabrice Zango, Russell Robinson and Henrik Flåtnes.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Max Heß won?
$48,500, which ranks 636th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from sixteen paid finishes between 2016 and 2025.
What is Max Heß's biggest Diamond League payday?
$12,000, for finishing 2nd in the triple jump 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 Max Heß 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 place is worth the same in the men's triple 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.
Has Max Heß ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
One time. The series pays the first eight and the fields run past twenty, so a ninth place is a Diamond League start that paid nothing at all. That start is in the result table on this site either way.
How much has Max Heß won at the World Indoor Championships?
$4,000, from one paid final in Nanjing 2025. An indoor title pays $40,000 and the ladder runs six places deep, down to $4,000 for 6th, the same in every event on the programme and the same for a relay team.
Is this everything Max Heß earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Indoor 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 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 Max Heß is Sara Petersen on $48,750, and one below Pavel Maslák on $48,500. Max Heß is one of 139 Germany athletes athletics has paid, and Germany athletics prize money adds them up to $4,199,250 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's triple jump prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Max Heß has been paid in one of them. The biggest of the rest are men's 100 m, men's pole vault and men's 800 m. Every meeting he 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. Indoor championships prize money is the Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026 championships, $4,664,000 put up across 53 finals, and the indoor final is on the men's triple jump page.