Natalia Bukowiecka prize money
Natalia Bukowiecka has been paid $36,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 394th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from twelve paid finishes in the women's 400 m, 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 she finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doha Diamond League 2026 | 400 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Bislett Games 2026 | 400 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2026 | 400 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| London Athletics Meet 2026 | 400 m | 5th | $2,500 |
| Meeting de Paris 2026 | 400 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2026 | 400 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| Doha Diamond League 2025 | 400 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Herculis EBS 2025 | 400 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2025 | 400 m | 5th | $3,000 |
| Bislett Games 2025 | 400 m | 6th | $2,500 |
| Athletissima 2025 | 400 m | 6th | $2,500 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2025 | 400 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| All twelve | Women's 400 m | — | $36,500 |
The twelve paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $36,500 is twelve separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.07% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The World Championships
What Natalia Bukowiecka did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 400 metres | 4th | 49.27 | $16,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Natalia Bukowiecka $16,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $36,500 from twelve Diamond League starts between 2025 and 2026. She ran on the Poland team that finished 4th in the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay, $16,000 to the federation rather than to any one of the four. She ran on the Poland team that finished 5th in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay, $12,000 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 World Indoor Championships
What Natalia Bukowiecka did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 400 metres | 2nd | 50.83 | $20,000 |
The World Indoor Championships have paid Natalia Bukowiecka $20,000 for one finish in Toruń 2026, against $36,500 from twelve Diamond League starts between 2025 and 2026. Three days indoors paid her more than any whole Diamond League season has. She ran on the Poland team that finished 4th in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay in Toruń 2026, $8,000 to the team rather than to any one of the four. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
Season by season
2025 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | — | Doha Diamond League | $18,000 |
| 2026 | 6 | — | Doha Diamond League | $18,500 |
season running total
2026 is the biggest of them, $18,500 from six starts. Every season from 2025 to 2026 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $36,500.
Around Natalia Bukowiecka on the money list
Ranks 374 to 414
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 374 | Christine Mboma | Women's 200 m | 2 | $40,000 |
| 375 | Claire Bryant | Women's long jump | — | $40,000 |
| 376 | Donald Scott | Men's triple jump | — | $40,000 |
| 377 | Gabriela DeBues-Stafford | five disciplines | — | $40,000 |
| 378 | Isabella Whittaker | Women's 400 m | 2 | $40,000 |
| 379 | Josette Andrews | four disciplines | — | $39,750 |
| 380 | Josh Hoey | two disciplines | 1 | $39,500 |
| 381 | Shiann Salmon | Women's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $39,250 |
| 382 | Barbora Špotáková | Women's javelin throw | 1 | $39,000 |
| 383 | Clayton Murphy | three disciplines | — | $39,000 |
| 384 | Bryce Deadmon | Men's 400 m | — | $38,750 |
| 385 | Candice McLeod | Women's 400 m | — | $38,750 |
| 386 | Sarah Billings | three disciplines | — | $38,500 |
| 387 | Mateusz Kołodziejski | Men's high jump | 1 | $38,250 |
| 388 | Sergey Shubenkov | Men's 110 m hurdles | 2 | $38,000 |
| 389 | Flor Ruiz | Women's javelin throw | — | $37,500 |
| 390 | Genzebe Dibaba | three disciplines | 2 | $37,500 |
| 391 | Rojé Stona | Men's discus throw | — | $37,500 |
| 392 | Jackline Chepkoech | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 2 | $37,250 |
| 393 | Nikola Ogrodníková | Women's javelin throw | — | $37,250 |
| 394 | Natalia Bukowiecka | Women's 400 m | — | $36,500 |
| 395 | Almir dos Santos | Men's triple jump | — | $36,250 |
| 396 | Filip Mihaljević | Men's shot put | — | $36,250 |
| 397 | Abrham Sime | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 2 | $36,000 |
| 398 | Amalie Iuel | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $36,000 |
| 399 | Bozhidar Sarâboyukov | Men's long jump | 1 | $36,000 |
| 400 | Letesenbet Gidey | two disciplines | — | $36,000 |
| 401 | Majd Eddin Ghazal | Men's high jump | 1 | $36,000 |
| 402 | Narve Gilje Nordås | four disciplines | 1 | $36,000 |
| 403 | Andrian Mardare | Men's javelin throw | — | $35,750 |
| 404 | Enrique Llopis | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $35,750 |
| 405 | Dorcus Ewoi | two disciplines | — | $35,500 |
| 406 | Hillary Bor | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $35,500 |
| 407 | Leonard Bett | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $35,500 |
| 408 | Mattia Furlani | Men's long jump | — | $35,250 |
| 409 | Abbey Caldwell | four disciplines | 1 | $35,000 |
| 410 | Ayanleh Souleiman | two disciplines | — | $35,000 |
| 411 | Max Heß | Men's triple jump | — | $35,000 |
| 412 | Wayde van Niekerk | two disciplines | 3 | $35,000 |
| 413 | Catriona Bisset | Women's 800 m | — | $34,750 |
| 414 | Daisy Jepkemei | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $34,750 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Natalia Bukowiecka is 394th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $36,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Natalia Bukowiecka most
Doha Diamond League 2026 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 400 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Roxana Gómez, Bassant Hemida, Martina Weil, Paris Peoples, Skadi Schier and Obakeng Kamberuka.
Doha Diamond League 2025 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 400 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Lieke Klaver, Sada Williams, Shafiqua Maloney, Susanne Gogl-Walli, Laviai Nielsen and Bakhita John Moresio.
Bislett Games 2026 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the 400 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Amber Anning, Nickisha Pryce, Lieke Klaver, Josefine Tomine Eriksen, Lakeri Ertzgaard and Henriette Jæger.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Natalia Bukowiecka won?
$36,500, which ranks 394th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from twelve paid finishes between 2025 and 2026.
What is Natalia Bukowiecka's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the Diamond+ 400 m at the 2026 Doha Diamond League. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 2nd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Natalia Bukowiecka 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 400 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 Natalia Bukowiecka win at the 2025 World Championships?
$16,000, 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.
How much has Natalia Bukowiecka won at the World Indoor Championships?
$20,000, from one paid final in Toruń 2026. 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 Natalia Bukowiecka earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 meetings. The World Championships and 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 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 Natalia Bukowiecka is Nikola Ogrodníková on $37,250, and one below Almir dos Santos on $36,250. Natalia Bukowiecka is one of 49 Poland athletes athletics has paid, and Poland athletics prize money adds them up to $1,155,542 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 400 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Natalia Bukowiecka 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 800 m. Every meeting she 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. 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 400 metres, mixed 4 × 400 metres relay and women's 4 × 400 metres relay pages. Indoor championships prize money is the Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026 championships, $4,664,000 put up across 53 finals, and the indoor finals are on the women's 400 metres and women's 4 × 400 metres relay pages.