McKenzie Long prize money
McKenzie Long has been paid $18,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 637th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from eight paid finishes in the women's 200 m and women's 100 m, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2026 | 100 m | 5th | $2,500 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2026 | 200 m | 5th | $2,500 |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2026 | 200 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Shanghai Diamond League 2026 | 200 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2025 | 200 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2025 | 200 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| Athletissima 2025 | 200 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2025 | 200 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| All eight | two disciplines | — | $18,000 |
The eight paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $18,000 is eight separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.03% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The World Championships
What McKenzie Long did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 200 metres | 8th | 22.78 | $5,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid McKenzie Long $5,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $18,000 from eight Diamond League starts between 2025 and 2026. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid McKenzie Long
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 200 m | 7 | — | 2025 to 2026 | $15,500 |
| Women's 100 m | 1 | — | 2026 | $2,500 |
The women's 200 m has paid McKenzie Long $15,500 of the $18,000, which is 86% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2025 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | — | Meeting de Paris | $10,000 |
| 2026 | 4 | — | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $8,000 |
season running total
2025 is the biggest of them, $10,000 from four starts. Every season from 2025 to 2026 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $18,000.
Around McKenzie Long on the money list
Ranks 617 to 657
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 617 | Parker Wolfe | two disciplines | 1 | $19,000 |
| 618 | Robert Gregory | Men's 200 m | — | $19,000 |
| 619 | Lamara Distin | Women's high jump | — | $18,750 |
| 620 | Léa Sprunger | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $18,750 |
| 621 | Mekides Abebe | two disciplines | — | $18,750 |
| 622 | Zerfe Wondemagegn | two disciplines | — | $18,750 |
| 623 | Courtney Frerichs | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $18,500 |
| 624 | Tomáš Staněk | Men's shot put | — | $18,500 |
| 625 | Bethwell Birgen | four disciplines | — | $18,250 |
| 626 | Laviai Nielsen | Women's 400 m | — | $18,250 |
| 627 | Paweł Wojciechowski | Men's pole vault | — | $18,250 |
| 628 | Susan Ejore | Women's 1500 m | — | $18,250 |
| 629 | Timothé Mumenthaler | two disciplines | — | $18,250 |
| 630 | Worknesh Mesele | three disciplines | — | $18,250 |
| 631 | Ashley Spencer | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $18,000 |
| 632 | Crystal Emmanuel | two disciplines | — | $18,000 |
| 633 | Cyréna Samba-Mayela | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $18,000 |
| 634 | Egide Ntakarutimana | two disciplines | — | $18,000 |
| 635 | Hobbs Kessler | four disciplines | — | $18,000 |
| 636 | Jaida Ross | Women's shot put | — | $18,000 |
| 637 | McKenzie Long | two disciplines | — | $18,000 |
| 638 | Roxana Gómez | Women's 400 m | — | $18,000 |
| 639 | Tsigie Gebreselama | two disciplines | 1 | $18,000 |
| 640 | Margaret Akidor | two disciplines | 1 | $17,750 |
| 641 | Shafiqua Maloney | two disciplines | — | $17,750 |
| 642 | Wilhem Belocian | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $17,750 |
| 643 | Winny Chebet | Women's 1500 m | — | $17,750 |
| 644 | Geordie Beamish | four disciplines | — | $17,500 |
| 645 | Kahmari Montgomery | Men's 400 m | — | $17,500 |
| 646 | Karl Bebendorf | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $17,500 |
| 647 | Phyllis Francis | two disciplines | — | $17,500 |
| 648 | Zaynab Dosso | Women's 100 m | — | $17,500 |
| 649 | Ajla Del Ponte | two disciplines | — | $17,250 |
| 650 | Ida Karstoft | Women's 200 m | 1 | $17,250 |
| 651 | Muktar Edris | two disciplines | 1 | $17,250 |
| 652 | Lia Apostolovski | Women's high jump | — | $17,125 |
| 653 | Anete Sietiņa | Women's javelin throw | — | $17,000 |
| 654 | Filippo Randazzo | Men's long jump | 1 | $17,000 |
| 655 | Fotyen Tesfay | two disciplines | — | $17,000 |
| 656 | Ludvy Vaillant | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $17,000 |
| 657 | Michał Haratyk | Men's shot put | — | $17,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. McKenzie Long is 637th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $18,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid McKenzie Long most
Meeting de Paris 2025 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the 200 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Deajah Stevens, Brittany Brown, Dina Asher-Smith, Audrey Leduc, Hélène Parisot and Anavia Battle.
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2025 paid $3,000 for 4th in the 200 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Maia McCoy, Jessika Gbai, Dalia Kaddari, Paula Sevilla, Maboundou Koné and Anavia Battle.
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2026 paid $2,500 for 5th in the 100 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Torrie Lewis, Zaynab Dosso, Delphine Nkansa, Ajla Del Ponte, Tina Clayton and Lavanya Williams.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has McKenzie Long won?
$18,000, which ranks 637th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from eight paid finishes between 2025 and 2026.
What is McKenzie Long's biggest Diamond League payday?
$4,000, for finishing 3rd in the 200 m at the 2025 Meeting de Paris. 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 McKenzie Long 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 200 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 much did McKenzie Long win at the 2025 World Championships?
$5,000, 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.
Is this everything McKenzie Long 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 McKenzie Long is Jaida Ross on $18,000, and one below Roxana Gómez on $18,000. McKenzie Long is one of 352 United States athletes athletics has paid, and United States athletics prize money adds them up to $16,292,792 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 200 m prize money and women's 100 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and McKenzie Long 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 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 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 women's 200 metres page.