Mutaz Barsham prize money
Mutaz Barsham has been paid $409,833 by the Diamond League, which ranks 18th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 60 paid finishes in the men's high jump, 23 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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
The 60 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $409,833 is 60 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.4% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the 61 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The Olympic Games
What Mutaz Barsham won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Men's high jump | Bronze | - |
The bronze in the men's high jump paid nothing. Only a gold pays, so 97 of the 145 medals awarded on the athletics programme in Paris carried no money at all. The Olympic page holds all 48 golds, the $2,400,000 they paid and what the circuit pays the same champions.
Season by season
2011 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | - | Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix | $14,500 |
| 2012 | 5 | 1 | Athletissima | $18,750 |
| 2013 | 5 | 2 | Golden Grand Prix | $34,000 |
| 2014 | 7 | 3 | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $48,000 |
| 2015 | 7 | 3 | Shanghai Golden Grand Prix | $45,750 |
| 2016 | 6 | 2 | British Athletics Grand Prix | $32,250 |
| 2017 | 6 | 6 | Weltklasse Zürich | $100,000 |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 | Doha Diamond League | $30,000 |
| 2019 | 2 | - | Müller Anniversary Games | $6,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 2 | - | Doha Diamond League | $7,250 |
| 2022 | 4 | 1 | Herculis | $24,000 |
| 2023 | 4 | 2 | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $29,500 |
| 2024 | 2 | - | Xiamen Diamond League | $12,000 |
| 2025 | - | - | - | - |
| 2026 | 3 | - | Doha Diamond League | $7,833 |
season running total
2017 is the biggest of them, $100,000 from six starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Mutaz Barsham in 2020 and 2025, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $409,833.
Around Mutaz Barsham on the money list
Ranks 1 to 41
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandra Elkasević | Women's discus throw | 46 | $692,750 |
| 2 | Armand Duplantis | Men's pole vault | 35 | $607,250 |
| 3 | Noah Lyles | two disciplines | 24 | $530,000 |
| 4 | Christian Taylor | three disciplines | 28 | $512,250 |
| 5 | Caterine Ibargüen | two disciplines | 37 | $501,000 |
| 6 | Sam Kendricks | Men's pole vault | 18 | $481,917 |
| 7 | Renaud Lavillenie | Men's pole vault | 33 | $466,833 |
| 8 | Femke Broeders-Bol | three disciplines | 29 | $456,000 |
| 9 | Mariya Lasitskene | Women's high jump | 26 | $440,500 |
| 10 | Shericka Jackson | three disciplines | 19 | $429,250 |
| 11 | Karsten Warholm | three disciplines | 18 | $428,500 |
| 12 | Sifan Hassan | five disciplines | 16 | $424,250 |
| 13 | Faith Kipyegon | six disciplines | 23 | $423,000 |
| 14 | Marileidy Paulino | two disciplines | 25 | $420,500 |
| 15 | Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith | two disciplines | 11 | $417,250 |
| 16 | Timothy Cheruiyot | four disciplines | 17 | $416,500 |
| 17 | Shaunae Miller-Uibo | three disciplines | 21 | $415,000 |
| 18 | Mutaz Barsham | Men's high jump | 23 | $409,833 |
| 19 | Joe Kovacs | Men's shot put | 18 | $406,500 |
| 20 | Dina Asher-Smith | two disciplines | 10 | $401,500 |
| 21 | Katerina Stefanidi | Women's pole vault | 15 | $394,500 |
| 22 | Valarie Sion | Women's discus throw | 20 | $389,000 |
| 23 | Soufiane El Bakkali | four disciplines | 22 | $388,500 |
| 24 | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | Women's high jump | 21 | $382,250 |
| 25 | Alison dos Santos | three disciplines | 22 | $380,500 |
| 26 | Elaine Thompson-Herah | two disciplines | 21 | $380,500 |
| 27 | Ivana Španović | two disciplines | 18 | $373,000 |
| 28 | Tom Walsh | Men's shot put | 13 | $372,000 |
| 29 | Pedro Pichardo | Men's triple jump | 17 | $370,500 |
| 30 | Barbora Špotáková | Women's javelin throw | 19 | $365,500 |
| 31 | Valerie Adams | Women's shot put | 30 | $361,500 |
| 32 | Daniel Ståhl | Men's discus throw | 13 | $355,750 |
| 33 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | four disciplines | 19 | $348,000 |
| 34 | Chase Jackson | Women's shot put | 18 | $347,500 |
| 35 | Blessing Okagbare | three disciplines | 11 | $338,250 |
| 36 | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | two disciplines | 21 | $335,000 |
| 37 | Emmanuel Wanyonyi | two disciplines | 15 | $321,500 |
| 38 | Julien Alfred | two disciplines | 13 | $316,000 |
| 39 | Piotr Małachowski | Men's discus throw | 18 | $312,500 |
| 40 | Kirani James | Men's 400 m | 17 | $310,250 |
| 41 | Ryan Crouser | Men's shot put | 15 | $310,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Mutaz Barsham is 18th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $409,833.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Mutaz Barsham most
Weltklasse Zürich 2017 paid $50,000 for 1st in the high jump, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Majd Eddin Ghazal, Bohdan Bondarenko, Robbie Grabarz, Michael Mason, Andriy Protsenko and Sylwester Bednarek.
Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2023 paid $10,000 for 1st in the high jump, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Gianmarco Tamberi, Tobias Potye, Brandon Starc, Norbert Kobielski, Luis Zayas and Donald Thomas.
Weltklasse Zürich 2023 paid $10,000 for 1st in the high jump, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Hamish Kerr, Woo Sang-hyeok, Gianmarco Tamberi, Ryoichi Akamatsu, Shelby McEwen and Loïc Gasch.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Mutaz Barsham won?
$409,833, which ranks 18th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 60 paid finishes between 2011 and 2026.
What is Mutaz Barsham's biggest Diamond League payday?
$50,000, for finishing 1st in the high jump at the 2017 Weltklasse Zürich. 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 Mutaz Barsham 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 win is worth the same in the men'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.
How many Diamond League meetings has Mutaz Barsham won?
23 of 61, worth $270,000 between them. Two of his appearances came at a final, which paid $52,000.
Has Mutaz Barsham 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.
Is this everything Mutaz Barsham 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 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 Mutaz Barsham is Shaunae Miller-Uibo on $415,000, and one below Joe Kovacs on $406,500. Mutaz Barsham is one of 30 Qatar athletes athletics has paid, and Qatar athletics prize money adds them up to $750,833 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's high jump prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Mutaz Barsham 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 Doha Diamond League has its own page across every edition of it.