Quanera Hayes prize money
Quanera Hayes has been paid $40,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 734th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from five paid finishes in the women's 400 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
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weltklasse Zürich 2021 | 400 m | 1st | $30,000 |
| Athletissima 2021 | 400 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Meeting de Paris 2021 | 400 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2017 | 400 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2016 | 400 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| All five | Women's 400 m | - | $40,750 |
The five paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $40,750 is five separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.04% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The World Indoor Championships
What Quanera Hayes did indoors
Quanera Hayes went to the World Indoor Championships on a relay and ran no individual final there. She ran on the United States team that won the women's 4 × 400 metres relay in Nanjing 2025, $40,000 to the team rather than to any one of the four. A winning quartet indoors takes $40,000, exactly what a winning individual takes, which is true of no other championship in the sport. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
The Olympic Games
What Quanera Hayes won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Women's 4 × 400 metres relay | Gold | - |
The women's 4 × 400 metres relay gold was worth $50,000 and was paid to the federation as a single cheque, with nothing published about how it was split between the runners. It is not hers and is not added to the $40,750 at the top of this page. The Olympic page holds all 48 golds, the $2,400,000 they paid and what the circuit pays the same champions.
Season by season
2016 to 2021, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $2,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | - | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $4,000 |
| 2018 | - | - | - | - |
| 2019 | - | - | - | - |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 3 | 1 | Weltklasse Zürich | $34,750 |
season running total
2021 is the biggest of them, $34,750 from three starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Quanera Hayes in 2018, 2019 and 2020, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $40,750.
Around Quanera Hayes on the money list
Ranks 714 to 754
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 714 | Frederik Ruppert | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $42,000 |
| 715 | Lawrence Okoye | Men's discus throw | - | $42,000 |
| 716 | Mahiedine Mekhissi | two disciplines | 1 | $42,000 |
| 717 | Mary Saxer | Women's pole vault | - | $41,583 |
| 718 | Abel Kiprop Mutai | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $41,500 |
| 719 | Gil Roberts | two disciplines | - | $41,500 |
| 720 | Martyn Rooney | Men's 400 m | - | $41,500 |
| 721 | Ryan Bailey | two disciplines | 1 | $41,500 |
| 722 | Stephanie Brown-Trafton | Women's discus throw | 1 | $41,500 |
| 723 | Brooke Buschkuehl | Women's long jump | - | $41,250 |
| 724 | Lisa Ryzih | Women's pole vault | - | $41,250 |
| 725 | Andrey Silnov | Men's high jump | 1 | $41,000 |
| 726 | Christopher Bailey | Men's 400 m | 1 | $41,000 |
| 727 | Jordan Geist | Men's shot put | 1 | $41,000 |
| 728 | Mark English | Men's 800 m | 1 | $41,000 |
| 729 | Mbulaeni Mulaudzi | Men's 800 m | 1 | $41,000 |
| 730 | Yuliya Leantsiuk | Women's shot put | - | $41,000 |
| 731 | Zinaida Sendriutė | Women's discus throw | - | $41,000 |
| 732 | Jarrion Lawson | Men's long jump | 1 | $40,750 |
| 733 | Pia Skrzyszowska | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $40,750 |
| 734 | Quanera Hayes | Women's 400 m | 1 | $40,750 |
| 735 | Sara Kolak | Women's javelin throw | 1 | $40,750 |
| 736 | Leonard Bett | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $40,500 |
| 737 | Vadims Vasiļevskis | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $40,500 |
| 738 | Almir dos Santos | Men's triple jump | - | $40,250 |
| 739 | Akeem Bloomfield | Men's 400 m | 3 | $40,000 |
| 740 | Aleshign Baweke | three disciplines | 1 | $40,000 |
| 741 | Brandon McBride | Men's 800 m | - | $40,000 |
| 742 | Bryce Hoppel | two disciplines | - | $40,000 |
| 743 | Christine Mboma | Women's 200 m | 2 | $40,000 |
| 744 | Claire Bryant | Women's long jump | - | $40,000 |
| 745 | Gabriela DeBues-Stafford | five disciplines | - | $40,000 |
| 746 | Isabella Whittaker | Women's 400 m | 2 | $40,000 |
| 747 | Jan Kudlička | Men's pole vault | - | $40,000 |
| 748 | Margaret Wambui | Women's 800 m | - | $40,000 |
| 749 | Nadine Kleinert | Women's shot put | - | $40,000 |
| 750 | Petr Frydrych | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $40,000 |
| 751 | Xiang Liu | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $40,000 |
| 752 | Zarck Visser | Men's long jump | 1 | $40,000 |
| 753 | Amine Laalou | three disciplines | 1 | $39,500 |
| 754 | Cindy Sember | Women's 100 m hurdles | 2 | $39,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Quanera Hayes is 734th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $40,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Quanera Hayes most
Weltklasse Zürich 2021 paid $30,000 for 1st in the 400 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Marileidy Paulino, Sada Williams, Stephenie Ann McPherson, Candice McLeod, Natalia Bukowiecka and Lieke Klaver.
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2017 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the 400 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Novlene Williams-Mills, Shericka Jackson, Courtney Okolo, Caster Semenya, Olha Zemlyak and Shaunae Miller-Uibo.
Athletissima 2021 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 400 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Natalia Bukowiecka, Candice McLeod, Lieke Klaver, Jodie Williams, Rachel Klopfenstein and Marileidy Paulino.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Quanera Hayes won?
$40,750, which ranks 734th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from five paid finishes between 2016 and 2021.
What is Quanera Hayes's biggest Diamond League payday?
$30,000, for finishing 1st in the 400 m at the 2021 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 Quanera Hayes 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 Quanera Hayes won?
One of five, worth $30,000 between them. One of her appearance came at a final, which paid $30,000.
Is this everything Quanera Hayes 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 Quanera Hayes is Pia Skrzyszowska on $40,750, and one below Sara Kolak on $40,750. Quanera Hayes is one of 659 United States athletes athletics has paid, and United States athletics prize money adds them up to $29,436,125 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 Quanera Hayes 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 Weltklasse Zürich has its own page across every edition of it. 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 women's 4 × 400 metres relay page.