Neil Gourley prize money
Neil Gourley has been paid $9,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1602nd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from five paid finishes in the men's 1500 m and men's mile, 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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prefontaine Classic 2025 | Mile | 12th | - |
| London Athletics Meet 2025 | 1500 m | 10th | - |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2025 | 1500 m | 13th | - |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2025 | 1500 m | 10th | - |
| Prefontaine Classic 2024 | Mile | 4th | $2,000 |
| Herculis 2024 | 1500 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| London Athletics Meet 2023 | 1500 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Athletissima 2023 | 1500 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Bislett Games 2023 | 1500 m | 10th | - |
| Bislett Games 2022 | Mile | 4th | $2,000 |
| Athletissima 2022 | 1500 m | 14th | - |
| All eleven | two disciplines | - | $9,750 |
The five paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $9,750 is five separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.01% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Six of the eleven starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Neil Gourley did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 1500 metres | 10th | 3:35.56 | - |
Neil Gourley stood in one 2025 World Championships final in Tokyo and finished outside the money. The championships pay eight places, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th, and nothing at all below that. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The World Indoor Championships
What Neil Gourley did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 1500 metres | 2nd | 3:39.07 | $20,000 |
The World Indoor Championships have paid Neil Gourley $20,000 for one finish in Nanjing 2025, against $9,750 from eleven Diamond League starts between 2022 and 2025. Three days indoors paid him more than any whole Diamond League season has. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Neil Gourley
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 1500 m | 8 | - | 2022 to 2025 | $5,750 |
| Men's mile | 3 | - | 2022 to 2025 | $4,000 |
The men's 1500 m has paid Neil Gourley $5,750 of the $9,750, which is 59% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2022 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | - | Bislett Games | $2,000 |
| 2023 | 3 | - | London Athletics Meet | $4,500 |
| 2024 | 2 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $3,250 |
| 2025 | 4 | - | Prefontaine Classic | - |
season running total
2023 is the biggest of them, $4,500 from three starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Neil Gourley in 2025, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $9,750.
Around Neil Gourley on the money list
Ranks 1582 to 1622
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1582 | Lauren Wells | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $10,000 |
| 1583 | Liina Laasma | Women's javelin throw | - | $10,000 |
| 1584 | Marta García | four disciplines | - | $10,000 |
| 1585 | Matthew Wilkinson | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $10,000 |
| 1586 | Mikhail Akimenko | Men's high jump | 1 | $10,000 |
| 1587 | Noah Kibet | Men's 800 m | 1 | $10,000 |
| 1588 | Olha Zemlyak | Women's 400 m | - | $10,000 |
| 1589 | Pavel Shalin | Men's long jump | - | $10,000 |
| 1590 | Pieter Conradie | Men's 400 m | - | $10,000 |
| 1591 | Rutger Smith | two disciplines | - | $10,000 |
| 1592 | Stephanie Twell | two disciplines | - | $10,000 |
| 1593 | Tate Taylor | Men's 200 m | 1 | $10,000 |
| 1594 | Yadisleidy Pedroso | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $10,000 |
| 1595 | Yasemin Can | two disciplines | - | $10,000 |
| 1596 | Zhang Mingkun | Men's long jump | 1 | $10,000 |
| 1597 | Amandine Brossier | Women's 400 m | - | $9,750 |
| 1598 | Attila Molnár | Men's 400 m | - | $9,750 |
| 1599 | Benjamin Gföhler | Men's long jump | - | $9,750 |
| 1600 | Elizabeth Bird | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $9,750 |
| 1601 | Kate Dennison | Women's pole vault | - | $9,750 |
| 1602 | Neil Gourley | two disciplines | - | $9,750 |
| 1603 | Ninon Chapelle | Women's pole vault | - | $9,750 |
| 1604 | Noélie Yarigo | two disciplines | - | $9,750 |
| 1605 | Aleec Harris | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $9,500 |
| 1606 | Antonina Krivoshapka | Women's 400 m | - | $9,500 |
| 1607 | Bianca Williams | Women's 200 m | - | $9,500 |
| 1608 | Brittany Borman | Women's javelin throw | - | $9,500 |
| 1609 | Fancy Cherotich | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $9,500 |
| 1610 | Fionnuala McCormack | two disciplines | - | $9,500 |
| 1611 | Georg Fleischhauer | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $9,500 |
| 1612 | Haftamnesh Tesfaye | two disciplines | - | $9,500 |
| 1613 | Hanna Titimets | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $9,500 |
| 1614 | Joanna Jóźwik | Women's 800 m | - | $9,500 |
| 1615 | Jura Levy | Women's 100 m | - | $9,500 |
| 1616 | Lythe Pillay | Men's 400 m | - | $9,500 |
| 1617 | Mikele Barber | Women's 100 m | - | $9,500 |
| 1618 | Rosângela Santos | two disciplines | - | $9,500 |
| 1619 | Shi Yuhao | Men's long jump | - | $9,500 |
| 1620 | Sofi Flink | Women's javelin throw | - | $9,500 |
| 1621 | Tarsis Orogot | Men's 200 m | - | $9,500 |
| 1622 | Teahna Daniels | two disciplines | - | $9,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Neil Gourley is 1602nd of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $9,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Neil Gourley most
London Athletics Meet 2023 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 1500 m, one of fifteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Elliot Giles, Matthew Stonier, Stewart McSweyn, Adel Mechaal, Timothy Cheruiyot and Azeddine Habz.
Prefontaine Classic 2024 paid $2,000 for 4th in the mile, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Jake Wightman, Reynold Cheruiyot, Cole Hocker, Geordie Beamish, Oliver Hoare and Mario García.
Bislett Games 2022 paid $2,000 for 4th in the mile, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Charles Grethen, Ignacio Fontes, Michał Rozmys, Samuel Abate, Ferdinand Kvan Edman and Matthew Ramsden.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Neil Gourley won?
$9,750, which ranks 1602nd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from five paid finishes between 2022 and 2025.
What is Neil Gourley's biggest Diamond League payday?
$3,500, for finishing 3rd in the 1500 m at the 2023 London Athletics Meet. 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 Neil Gourley 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 place is worth the same in the men's 1500 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.
Has Neil Gourley ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Six 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.
How much has Neil Gourley won at the World Indoor Championships?
$20,000, from one paid final in Nanjing 2025. 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 Neil Gourley earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The 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 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 Neil Gourley is Kate Dennison on $9,750, and one below Ninon Chapelle on $9,750. Neil Gourley is one of 249 Great Britain athletes athletics has paid, and Great Britain athletics prize money adds them up to $6,351,625 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 1500 m prize money and men's mile prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Neil Gourley has been paid in two 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 Prefontaine Classic 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 final is on the men's 1500 metres page. Indoor championships prize money is the Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026 championships, $4,664,000 put up across 53 finals, and the indoor final is on the men's 1500 metres page.