Natalia Bukowiecka prize money
Natalia Bukowiecka has been paid $135,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 216th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 32 paid finishes in the women's 400 m, three 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
The 32 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $135,250 is 32 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.1% of the $113,397,000 the 224 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 $135,250 from 32 Diamond League starts between 2021 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 $135,250 from 32 Diamond League starts between 2021 and 2026. 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.
The Olympic Games
What Natalia Bukowiecka won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Women's 400 metres | Bronze | - |
The bronze in the women's 400 metres 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
2021 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | - | Anniversary Games | $7,000 |
| 2022 | 5 | - | Meeting de Paris | $16,750 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3 | Prefontaine Classic | $47,500 |
| 2024 | 5 | - | Xiamen Diamond League | $27,500 |
| 2025 | 6 | - | Doha Diamond League | $18,000 |
| 2026 | 6 | - | Doha Diamond League | $18,500 |
season running total
2023 is the biggest of them, $47,500 from six starts. Every season from 2021 to 2026 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $135,250.
Around Natalia Bukowiecka on the money list
Ranks 196 to 236
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 196 | Natoya Goule-Toppin | two disciplines | 1 | $142,500 |
| 197 | Sharika Nelvis | Women's 100 m hurdles | 4 | $142,500 |
| 198 | Churandy Martina | two disciplines | 2 | $142,000 |
| 199 | Madara Palameika | Women's javelin throw | 5 | $142,000 |
| 200 | Wycliffe Kinyamal | two disciplines | 6 | $140,750 |
| 201 | Alonso Edward | two disciplines | 8 | $140,500 |
| 202 | Trayvon Bromell | two disciplines | 6 | $140,500 |
| 203 | Yared Nuguse | two disciplines | 6 | $140,500 |
| 204 | Matthew Denny | Men's discus throw | 3 | $139,000 |
| 205 | Nadine Visser | Women's 100 m hurdles | 2 | $138,250 |
| 206 | Natasha Hastings | two disciplines | 3 | $138,000 |
| 207 | Keshorn Walcott | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $137,750 |
| 208 | Francena McCorory | Women's 400 m | 6 | $137,500 |
| 209 | Iryna Herashchenko | Women's high jump | 2 | $137,375 |
| 210 | Matthew Hudson-Smith | Men's 400 m | 5 | $136,750 |
| 211 | Piotr Lisek | Men's pole vault | 3 | $136,375 |
| 212 | Grant Holloway | Men's 110 m hurdles | 8 | $136,000 |
| 213 | Kurtis Marschall | Men's pole vault | 2 | $135,833 |
| 214 | Pascal Martinot-Lagarde | Men's 110 m hurdles | 6 | $135,500 |
| 215 | Hugues Fabrice Zango | Men's triple jump | 3 | $135,250 |
| 216 | Natalia Bukowiecka | Women's 400 m | 3 | $135,250 |
| 217 | Elijah Manangoi | three disciplines | 5 | $135,000 |
| 218 | Leonardo Fabbri | Men's shot put | 5 | $135,000 |
| 219 | Hamish Kerr | Men's high jump | 7 | $134,750 |
| 220 | Jenny Simpson | four disciplines | 4 | $133,500 |
| 221 | Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou | Women's pole vault | 5 | $133,250 |
| 222 | Anna Chicherova | Women's high jump | 8 | $133,000 |
| 223 | Eleanor Patterson | Women's high jump | 2 | $132,750 |
| 224 | Getnet Wale | three disciplines | 2 | $132,750 |
| 225 | Abraham Kibiwot | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $132,250 |
| 226 | Asafa Powell | Men's 100 m | 9 | $131,500 |
| 227 | Daryll Neita | two disciplines | 3 | $131,500 |
| 228 | Hiwot Ayalew | two disciplines | 5 | $131,500 |
| 229 | Tomasz Majewski | Men's shot put | 1 | $131,000 |
| 230 | Vivian Jepkemei Cheruiyot | two disciplines | 11 | $131,000 |
| 231 | Michael Norman | three disciplines | 7 | $130,750 |
| 232 | Djamel Sedjati | two disciplines | 5 | $130,500 |
| 233 | Georgia Hunter Bell | three disciplines | 4 | $130,250 |
| 234 | Dylan Armstrong | Men's shot put | 5 | $130,000 |
| 235 | Johannes Vetter | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $129,500 |
| 236 | Queen Claye | two disciplines | 4 | $129,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Natalia Bukowiecka is 216th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $135,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Natalia Bukowiecka most
Prefontaine Classic 2023 paid $12,000 for 2nd in the 400 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Lieke Klaver, Candice McLeod, Sada Williams, Victoria Ohuruogu, Lynna Irby and Aliyah Abrams.
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2023 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 400 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Lieke Klaver, Lynna Irby, Roxana Gómez, Aliyah Abrams, Anna Kiełbasińska and Candice McLeod.
Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2023 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 400 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Lieke Klaver, Marileidy Paulino, Candice McLeod, Sada Williams, Victoria Ohuruogu and Lynna Irby.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Natalia Bukowiecka won?
$135,250, which ranks 216th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 32 paid finishes between 2021 and 2026.
What is Natalia Bukowiecka's biggest Diamond League payday?
$12,000, for finishing 2nd in the 400 m at the 2023 Prefontaine Classic. 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 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 win 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 many Diamond League meetings has Natalia Bukowiecka won?
Three of 32, worth $30,000 between them. Five of her appearances came at a final, which paid $19,000.
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 224 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 3,683 athletes across the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Natalia Bukowiecka is Hugues Fabrice Zango on $135,250, and one below Elijah Manangoi on $135,000. Natalia Bukowiecka is one of 84 Poland athletes athletics has paid, and Poland athletics prize money adds them up to $2,711,542 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.