Melissa Jefferson-Wooden prize money
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden has been paid $102,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 137th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from eight paid finishes in the women's 100 m and women's 200 m, six 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
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bauhausgalan 2026 | 100 m | 1st | $20,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2026 | 100 m | 1st | $20,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2026 | 100 m | 1st | $20,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2026 | 200 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2026 | 100 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2025 | 100 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2025 | 100 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2025 | 100 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| All eight | two disciplines | — | $102,000 |
The eight paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $102,000 is eight separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.2% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The World Championships
What Melissa Jefferson-Wooden did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 100 metres | 1st | 10.61 | $70,000 |
| Women's 200 metres | 1st | 21.68 | $70,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Melissa Jefferson-Wooden $140,000 for two finishes in Tokyo, against $102,000 from eight Diamond League starts between 2025 and 2026. She ran on the United States team that won the women's 4 × 100 metres relay, $80,000 to the federation rather than to any one of the four. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The Ultimate Championship
What Melissa Jefferson-Wooden did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 100 metres | 1st | 10.62 | $150,000 |
| Women's 200 metres | 1st | 21.47 | $150,000 |
The Ultimate Championship paid Melissa Jefferson-Wooden $300,000 for two finishes over three days, against $102,000 from eight Diamond League starts between 2025 and 2026. One win in Budapest paid $150,000, which is more than the Diamond League has paid her in any single season. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Melissa Jefferson-Wooden
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 100 m | 7 | 6 | 2025 to 2026 | $96,000 |
| Women's 200 m | 1 | — | 2026 | $6,000 |
The women's 100 m has paid Melissa Jefferson-Wooden $96,000 of the $102,000, which is 94% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2025 to 2026, in the order it was won
season running total
2026 is the biggest of them, $72,000 from five starts. Every season from 2025 to 2026 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $102,000.
Around Melissa Jefferson-Wooden on the money list
Ranks 117 to 157
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 117 | Tina Šutej | Women's pole vault | 1 | $115,500 |
| 118 | Anna Cockrell | Women's 400 m hurdles | 4 | $113,500 |
| 119 | Wyclife Kinyamal | two disciplines | 4 | $112,750 |
| 120 | Emmanuel Korir | two disciplines | 3 | $111,500 |
| 121 | Andriy Protsenko | Men's high jump | 2 | $111,000 |
| 122 | Dalilah Muhammad | Women's 400 m hurdles | 6 | $110,500 |
| 123 | Angelica Moser | Women's pole vault | 2 | $108,875 |
| 124 | Ackera Nugent | Women's 100 m hurdles | 3 | $108,000 |
| 125 | Ajeé Wilson | Women's 800 m | 4 | $106,750 |
| 126 | Monae' Nichols | Women's long jump | 2 | $106,500 |
| 127 | Natoya Goule | Women's 800 m | 1 | $106,500 |
| 128 | Hansle Parchment | Men's 110 m hurdles | 4 | $106,000 |
| 129 | Cameron Myers | three disciplines | 2 | $105,500 |
| 130 | Christian Taylor | Men's triple jump | 4 | $105,250 |
| 131 | Brittany Brown | two disciplines | 5 | $104,750 |
| 132 | Anavia Battle | two disciplines | 4 | $104,000 |
| 133 | Woo Sang-hyeok | Men's high jump | 4 | $103,750 |
| 134 | Jacory Patterson | Men's 400 m | 4 | $103,000 |
| 135 | Rajindra Campbell | Men's shot put | 2 | $102,500 |
| 136 | Yuliya Levchenko | Women's high jump | 1 | $102,375 |
| 137 | Melissa Jefferson-Wooden | two disciplines | 6 | $102,000 |
| 138 | Alexander Ogando | two disciplines | 2 | $101,250 |
| 139 | Matthew Hudson-Smith | Men's 400 m | 5 | $101,250 |
| 140 | Trey Cunningham | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $100,750 |
| 141 | Anzhelika Sidorova | Women's pole vault | 3 | $99,000 |
| 142 | Lieke Klaver | Women's 400 m | — | $98,750 |
| 143 | Natalia Kaczmarek | Women's 400 m | 3 | $98,750 |
| 144 | Adriana Vilagoš | Women's javelin throw | 2 | $97,250 |
| 145 | Feng Bin | Women's discus throw | 3 | $97,000 |
| 146 | Janieve Russell | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $97,000 |
| 147 | Chris Nilsen | Men's pole vault | 2 | $96,750 |
| 148 | Emma Zapletalová | Women's 400 m hurdles | 5 | $96,500 |
| 149 | Kyron McMaster | two disciplines | 1 | $96,250 |
| 150 | Mutaz Barsham | Men's high jump | 7 | $95,833 |
| 151 | Jorinde van Klinken | two disciplines | 1 | $94,000 |
| 152 | Lamecha Girma | five disciplines | 6 | $94,000 |
| 153 | Johannes Vetter | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $93,000 |
| 154 | Abraham Kibiwot | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $92,500 |
| 155 | Amy Hunt | two disciplines | — | $92,500 |
| 156 | Berihu Aregawi | three disciplines | 4 | $91,750 |
| 157 | Niels Laros | three disciplines | 3 | $91,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Melissa Jefferson-Wooden is 137th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $102,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Melissa Jefferson-Wooden most
Bauhausgalan 2026 paid $20,000 for 1st in the 100 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Amy Hunt, Patrizia Van der Weken, Minke Bisschops, Zaynab Dosso, Dina Asher-Smith and Sade McCreath.
Prefontaine Classic 2026 paid $20,000 for 1st in the 100 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Sha'Carri Richardson, Adaejah Hodge, Jonielle Smith, Tina Clayton, Shericka Jackson and Shawnti Jackson.
Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2026 paid $20,000 for 1st in the 100 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Julien Alfred, Sha'Carri Richardson, Brianna Lyston, Ewa Swoboda, Tina Clayton and Zoe Hobbs.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won?
$102,000, which ranks 137th 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 Melissa Jefferson-Wooden's biggest Diamond League payday?
$20,000, for finishing 1st in the Diamond+ 100 m at the 2026 Bauhausgalan. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 1st and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Melissa Jefferson-Wooden 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 Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won?
Six of eight, worth $90,000 between them. She has not been paid at a Diamond League final.
How much did Melissa Jefferson-Wooden win at the 2025 World Championships?
$140,000, 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.
How much did Melissa Jefferson-Wooden win at the Ultimate Championship?
$300,000, from two paid finals at the 2026 championship in Budapest. World Athletics pays $150,000 for a win there, $75,000 for second and $40,000 for third, the same in all 26 individual events.
Is this everything Melissa Jefferson-Wooden earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 meetings. The World Championships and Ultimate Championship 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 Melissa Jefferson-Wooden is Yuliya Levchenko on $102,375, and one below Alexander Ogando on $101,250. Melissa Jefferson-Wooden 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 100 m prize money and women's 200 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden 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 Bauhausgalan 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, women's 200 metres and women's 4 × 100 metres relay pages. Ultimate Championship prize money is the 2026 championship in Budapest, $10,000,000 over three days, and the full finals are on the women's 100 metres and women's 200 metres pages.