Natoya Goule-Toppin prize money
Natoya Goule-Toppin has been paid $142,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 196th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 35 paid finishes in the women's 800 m and women's 1000 m, one of them a win.
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 35 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $142,500 is 35 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. Four of the 39 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Natoya Goule-Toppin
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 800 m | 38 | 1 | 2017 to 2025 | $140,000 |
| Women's 1000 m | 1 | - | 2025 | $2,500 |
The women's 800 m has paid Natoya Goule-Toppin $140,000 of the $142,500, which is 98% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2017 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | - | Doha Diamond League | $1,000 |
| 2018 | 4 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $22,500 |
| 2019 | 6 | - | Meeting de Paris | $16,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 6 | 1 | Allianz Memorial Van Damme | $34,500 |
| 2022 | 5 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $19,500 |
| 2023 | 7 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $25,500 |
| 2024 | 6 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $16,500 |
| 2025 | 4 | - | Diamond League Shanghai | $7,000 |
season running total
2021 is the biggest of them, $34,500 from six starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Natoya Goule-Toppin in 2020, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $142,500.
Around Natoya Goule-Toppin on the money list
Ranks 176 to 216
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 176 | Alexis Copello | Men's triple jump | 2 | $149,500 |
| 177 | Andreas Thorkildsen | Men's javelin throw | 10 | $149,500 |
| 178 | Cordell Tinch | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $149,500 |
| 179 | Anzhelika Sidorova | Women's pole vault | 4 | $149,250 |
| 180 | Isaac Makwala | two disciplines | 1 | $148,750 |
| 181 | Aries Merritt | Men's 110 m hurdles | 8 | $148,500 |
| 182 | Jamal Britt | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $148,500 |
| 183 | Kara Winger | Women's javelin throw | 3 | $148,000 |
| 184 | Michael Tinsley | Men's 400 m hurdles | 8 | $148,000 |
| 185 | Ramil Guliyev | two disciplines | 5 | $147,500 |
| 186 | Robert Harting | Men's discus throw | 11 | $147,500 |
| 187 | Oblique Seville | Men's 100 m | 5 | $146,000 |
| 188 | Collen Kebinatshipi | Men's 400 m | 6 | $145,500 |
| 189 | Mykolas Alekna | Men's discus throw | 7 | $145,500 |
| 190 | Simon Ehammer | Men's long jump | 3 | $145,500 |
| 191 | Rushell Clayton | Women's 400 m hurdles | 5 | $145,250 |
| 192 | Dani Stevens | Women's discus throw | 1 | $145,000 |
| 193 | Veronica Campbell Brown | two disciplines | 7 | $145,000 |
| 194 | Vernon Norwood | two disciplines | - | $143,250 |
| 195 | Mo Farah | three disciplines | 9 | $142,500 |
| 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 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Natoya Goule-Toppin is 196th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $142,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Natoya Goule-Toppin most
Weltklasse Zürich 2022 paid $12,000 for 2nd in the 800 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Sage Hurta-Klecker, Halimah Nakaayi, Keely Hodgkinson, Anita Horvat, Rénelle Lamote and Lore Hoffmann.
Allianz Memorial Van Damme 2021 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 800 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Keely Hodgkinson, Jemma Reekie, Habitam Alemu, Kate Grace, Lovisa Lindh and Halimah Nakaayi.
Weltklasse Zürich 2018 paid $10,000 for 3rd in the 800 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Habitam Alemu, Raevyn Rogers, Francine Niyonsaba, Selina Büchel, Rababe Arafi and Caster Semenya.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Natoya Goule-Toppin won?
$142,500, which ranks 196th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 35 paid finishes between 2017 and 2025.
What is Natoya Goule-Toppin's biggest Diamond League payday?
$12,000, for finishing 2nd in the 800 m at the 2022 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 Natoya Goule-Toppin 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 800 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 Natoya Goule-Toppin won?
One of 39, worth $10,000 between them. Six of her appearances came at a final, which paid $48,000.
Has Natoya Goule-Toppin ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Four 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 Natoya Goule-Toppin 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 Natoya Goule-Toppin is Mo Farah on $142,500, and one below Sharika Nelvis on $142,500. Natoya Goule-Toppin is one of 158 Jamaica athletes athletics has paid, and Jamaica athletics prize money adds them up to $8,413,000 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 800 m prize money and women's 1000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Natoya Goule-Toppin has been paid in two 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 Diamond League Shanghai has its own page across every edition of it.