Michaela Meijer prize money
Michaela Meijer has been paid $18,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1190th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from eight paid finishes in the women's pole vault, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary Games 2021 | Pole vault | 8th | $500 |
| Müller Grand Prix Birmingham 2019 | Pole vault | 5th | $2,500 |
| Müller Anniversary Games 2019 | Pole vault | 9th | - |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2019 | Pole vault | 12th | - |
| Müller Anniversary Games 2017 | Pole vault | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Müller Grand Prix Birmingham 2017 | Pole vault | 3rd | $4,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2017 | Pole vault | 8th | $2,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2017 | Pole vault | =6th | $1,750 |
| Muller Anniversary Games 2016 | Pole vault | 5th | $2,500 |
| Bauhausgalan 2015 | Pole vault | 7th | $1,500 |
| All ten | Women's pole vault | - | $18,750 |
The eight paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $18,750 is eight separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.02% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the ten starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Season by season
2015 to 2021, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1 | - | Bauhausgalan | $1,500 |
| 2016 | 1 | - | Muller Anniversary Games | $2,500 |
| 2017 | 4 | - | Müller Anniversary Games | $11,750 |
| 2018 | - | - | - | - |
| 2019 | 3 | - | Müller Grand Prix Birmingham | $2,500 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 1 | - | Anniversary Games | $500 |
season running total
2017 is the biggest of them, $11,750 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Michaela Meijer in 2018 and 2020, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $18,750.
Around Michaela Meijer on the money list
Ranks 1170 to 1210
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1170 | Yvette Lewis | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $19,500 |
| 1171 | Dylan Beard | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $19,250 |
| 1172 | Fantu Worku | two disciplines | - | $19,250 |
| 1173 | Heather MacLean | two disciplines | - | $19,250 |
| 1174 | Lisanne de Witte | Women's 400 m | - | $19,250 |
| 1175 | Oliver Helander | Men's javelin throw | - | $19,250 |
| 1176 | Asmir Kolašinac | Men's shot put | - | $19,000 |
| 1177 | Boris Berian | Men's 800 m | 1 | $19,000 |
| 1178 | Cole Walsh | Men's pole vault | - | $19,000 |
| 1179 | Elvira Herman | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $19,000 |
| 1180 | Gabriela Petrova | Women's triple jump | - | $19,000 |
| 1181 | Jasmine Jones | two disciplines | - | $19,000 |
| 1182 | Joanna Atkins | two disciplines | - | $19,000 |
| 1183 | Kalkidan Gezahegne | two disciplines | - | $19,000 |
| 1184 | Parker Wolfe | two disciplines | 1 | $19,000 |
| 1185 | Robert Gregory | Men's 200 m | - | $19,000 |
| 1186 | Brahim Kaazouzi | Men's 1500 m | 1 | $18,750 |
| 1187 | Lamara Distin | Women's high jump | - | $18,750 |
| 1188 | Lynna Irby | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1189 | Mekides Abebe | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1190 | Michaela Meijer | Women's pole vault | - | $18,750 |
| 1191 | Shane Brathwaite | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $18,750 |
| 1192 | Zerfe Wondemagegn | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1193 | Charlene Lipsey | Women's 800 m | - | $18,500 |
| 1194 | Christin Wurth-Thomas | two disciplines | 1 | $18,500 |
| 1195 | Khadevis Robinson | Men's 800 m | 1 | $18,500 |
| 1196 | Lyukman Adams | Men's triple jump | 2 | $18,500 |
| 1197 | Michael Bingham | Men's 400 m | - | $18,500 |
| 1198 | Sheri-Ann Brooks | two disciplines | - | $18,500 |
| 1199 | Dariya Derkach | Women's triple jump | - | $18,250 |
| 1200 | Susan Ejore | Women's 1500 m | - | $18,250 |
| 1201 | Timothé Mumenthaler | two disciplines | - | $18,250 |
| 1202 | Worknesh Mesele | three disciplines | - | $18,250 |
| 1203 | Vita Styopina | Women's high jump | - | $18,083 |
| 1204 | Oksana Okuneva | Women's high jump | - | $18,050 |
| 1205 | Brahim Taleb | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $18,000 |
| 1206 | Brigitte Ann Foster-Hylton | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1207 | Cyréna Samba-Mayela | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $18,000 |
| 1208 | Egide Ntakarutimana | two disciplines | - | $18,000 |
| 1209 | Ewa Swoboda | Women's 100 m | - | $18,000 |
| 1210 | Germán Luján Lauro | Men's shot put | - | $18,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Michaela Meijer is 1190th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $18,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Michaela Meijer most
Müller Anniversary Games 2017 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the pole vault, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Sandi Morris, Yarisley Silva, Holly Bradshaw, Katie Moon, Mary Saxer and Katerina Stefanidi.
Müller Grand Prix Birmingham 2017 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the pole vault, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Sandi Morris, Yarisley Silva, Katie Moon, Robeilys Peinado, Alysha Newman and Katerina Stefanidi.
Müller Grand Prix Birmingham 2019 paid $2,500 for 5th in the pole vault, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Holly Bradshaw, Katie Moon, Angelica Bengtsson, Katerina Stefanidi, Alysha Newman and Yarisley Silva.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Michaela Meijer won?
$18,750, which ranks 1190th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from eight paid finishes between 2015 and 2021.
What is Michaela Meijer's biggest Diamond League payday?
$4,000, for finishing 3rd in the pole vault at the 2017 Müller Anniversary Games. 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 Michaela Meijer 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 pole vault 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 Michaela Meijer ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Two times. 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. Those starts are in the result tables on this site either way.
Is this everything Michaela Meijer 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 Michaela Meijer is Mekides Abebe on $18,750, and one below Shane Brathwaite on $18,750. Michaela Meijer is one of 89 Sweden athletes athletics has paid, and Sweden athletics prize money adds them up to $2,690,592 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's pole vault prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Michaela Meijer 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 Anniversary Games has its own page across every edition of it.