Renaud Lavillenie prize money
Renaud Lavillenie has been paid $68,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 227th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from 23 paid finishes in the men's pole vault, 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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
The 23 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $68,500 is 23 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.1% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. Nine of the 32 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Renaud Lavillenie did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's pole vault | 8th | 5.75 | $5,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Renaud Lavillenie $5,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $68,500 from 32 Diamond League starts between 2017 and 2026. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
Season by season
2017 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | — | Meeting de Paris | $6,000 |
| 2018 | 1 | — | Meeting de Paris | $4,000 |
| 2019 | 4 | — | Weltklasse Zürich | $10,750 |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 4 | — | Bislett Games | $7,000 |
| 2022 | 7 | — | Meeting de Paris | $15,250 |
| 2023 | 2 | — | Bislett Games | — |
| 2024 | 3 | — | Athletissima | $500 |
| 2025 | 5 | — | Bislett Games | $21,500 |
| 2026 | 5 | — | Bauhausgalan | $3,500 |
season running total
2025 is the biggest of them, $21,500 from five starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Renaud Lavillenie in 2020 and 2023, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $68,500.
Around Renaud Lavillenie on the money list
Ranks 207 to 247
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 207 | Jordan Scott | Men's triple jump | 4 | $71,500 |
| 208 | Stewart McSweyn | four disciplines | 2 | $71,500 |
| 209 | Likina Amebaw | two disciplines | 1 | $71,250 |
| 210 | Stephenie Ann McPherson | Women's 400 m | 2 | $71,250 |
| 211 | Simon Koech | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $71,000 |
| 212 | Thobias Montler | Men's long jump | 2 | $70,750 |
| 213 | Halimah Nakaayi | two disciplines | — | $70,500 |
| 214 | Benjamin Kigen | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 2 | $70,250 |
| 215 | Andrius Gudžius | Men's discus throw | 1 | $70,000 |
| 216 | Caster Semenya | two disciplines | 7 | $70,000 |
| 217 | Magnus Kirt | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $70,000 |
| 218 | Courtney Lindsey | two disciplines | 1 | $69,750 |
| 219 | Fedrick Dacres | Men's discus throw | 2 | $69,750 |
| 220 | Mackenzie Little | Women's javelin throw | 2 | $69,750 |
| 221 | Donavan Brazier | Men's 800 m | 2 | $69,500 |
| 222 | Reynold Cheruiyot | four disciplines | 1 | $69,500 |
| 223 | Tina Clayton | Women's 100 m | 2 | $69,500 |
| 224 | Liadagmis Povea | Women's triple jump | — | $69,000 |
| 225 | Tara Davis-Woodhall | Women's long jump | 4 | $69,000 |
| 226 | Angelina Topić | Women's high jump | 2 | $68,500 |
| 227 | Renaud Lavillenie | Men's pole vault | — | $68,500 |
| 228 | Blessing Okagbare | three disciplines | 2 | $68,250 |
| 229 | Phanuel Koech | Men's 1500 m | 1 | $68,000 |
| 230 | Valarie Sion | Women's discus throw | 3 | $68,000 |
| 231 | Fanny Roos | Women's shot put | — | $67,500 |
| 232 | Hana Moll | Women's pole vault | 3 | $67,500 |
| 233 | Erriyon Knighton | two disciplines | 3 | $66,500 |
| 234 | Andrenette Knight | Women's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $66,250 |
| 235 | Gabby Thomas | two disciplines | 3 | $66,250 |
| 236 | Fantaye Belayneh | two disciplines | 1 | $65,750 |
| 237 | Rasmus Mägi | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $65,750 |
| 238 | Keshorn Walcott | Men's javelin throw | — | $65,250 |
| 239 | Danniel Thomas-Dodd | Women's shot put | — | $65,000 |
| 240 | Elina Tzengko | Women's javelin throw | 3 | $65,000 |
| 241 | Sondre Guttormsen | Men's pole vault | — | $64,250 |
| 242 | Francine Niyonsaba | three disciplines | 4 | $64,000 |
| 243 | Alysha Newman | Women's pole vault | 1 | $63,500 |
| 244 | Dafne Schippers | two disciplines | 2 | $63,500 |
| 245 | Steven Gardiner | two disciplines | 6 | $63,500 |
| 246 | Michael Cherry | Men's 400 m | 2 | $63,250 |
| 247 | Ditaji Kambundji | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $62,250 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Renaud Lavillenie is 227th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $68,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Renaud Lavillenie most
Meeting de Paris 2022 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the pole vault, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Thibaut Collet, Anthony Ammirati, Kurtis Marschall, Baptiste Thiery, Valentin Lavillenie and Harry Coppell.
Meeting de Paris 2017 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the pole vault, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Shawnacy Barber, Paweł Wojciechowski, Kévin Menaldo, Axel Chapelle, Raphael Holzdeppe and Jan Kudlička.
Bislett Games 2025 paid $5,000 for 4th in the pole vault, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Sam Kendricks, Menno Vloon, Ersu Şaşma, Sondre Guttormsen, Ben Broeders and Armand Duplantis.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Renaud Lavillenie won?
$68,500, which ranks 227th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from 23 paid finishes between 2017 and 2026.
What is Renaud Lavillenie's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the pole vault at the 2022 Meeting de Paris. 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 Renaud Lavillenie 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 pole vault 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 Renaud Lavillenie ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Nine 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. He are in the result tables on this site either way.
How much did Renaud Lavillenie win at the 2025 World Championships?
$5,000, 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.
Is this everything Renaud Lavillenie earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 meetings. The World 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 2,112 athletes across the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Renaud Lavillenie is Angelina Topić on $68,500, and one below Blessing Okagbare on $68,250. Renaud Lavillenie is one of 104 France athletes athletics has paid, and France athletics prize money adds them up to $1,290,042 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's pole vault prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Renaud Lavillenie has been paid in one of them. The biggest of the rest are men's 100 m, men's 800 m and men's 200 m. Every meeting he has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Bauhausgalan 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 pole vault page.