Renaud Lavillenie prize money
Renaud Lavillenie has been paid $466,833 by the Diamond League, which ranks 7th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 72 paid finishes in the men's pole vault, 33 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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
The 72 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $466,833 is 72 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.4% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Nine of the 81 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 $466,833 from 81 Diamond League starts between 2010 and 2026. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
Season by season
2010 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | 4 | Bislett Games | $46,000 |
| 2011 | 6 | 4 | Golden Gala | $49,000 |
| 2012 | 6 | 5 | Golden Gala | $52,250 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4 | Prefontaine Classic | $46,000 |
| 2014 | 6 | 6 | Shanghai Golden Grand Prix | $60,000 |
| 2015 | 6 | 4 | Prefontaine Classic | $46,250 |
| 2016 | 7 | 5 | Prefontaine Classic | $59,000 |
| 2017 | 5 | - | IAAF Diamond League Shanghai | $24,500 |
| 2018 | 5 | 1 | IAAF Diamond League Shanghai | $25,333 |
| 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
2014 is the biggest of them, $60,000 from six 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 $466,833.
Around Renaud Lavillenie on the money list
Ranks 1 to 41
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandra Elkasević | Women's discus throw | 46 | $692,750 |
| 2 | Armand Duplantis | Men's pole vault | 35 | $607,250 |
| 3 | Noah Lyles | two disciplines | 24 | $530,000 |
| 4 | Christian Taylor | three disciplines | 28 | $512,250 |
| 5 | Caterine Ibargüen | two disciplines | 37 | $501,000 |
| 6 | Sam Kendricks | Men's pole vault | 18 | $481,917 |
| 7 | Renaud Lavillenie | Men's pole vault | 33 | $466,833 |
| 8 | Femke Broeders-Bol | three disciplines | 29 | $456,000 |
| 9 | Mariya Lasitskene | Women's high jump | 26 | $440,500 |
| 10 | Shericka Jackson | three disciplines | 19 | $429,250 |
| 11 | Karsten Warholm | three disciplines | 18 | $428,500 |
| 12 | Sifan Hassan | five disciplines | 16 | $424,250 |
| 13 | Faith Kipyegon | six disciplines | 23 | $423,000 |
| 14 | Marileidy Paulino | two disciplines | 25 | $420,500 |
| 15 | Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith | two disciplines | 11 | $417,250 |
| 16 | Timothy Cheruiyot | four disciplines | 17 | $416,500 |
| 17 | Shaunae Miller-Uibo | three disciplines | 21 | $415,000 |
| 18 | Mutaz Barsham | Men's high jump | 23 | $409,833 |
| 19 | Joe Kovacs | Men's shot put | 18 | $406,500 |
| 20 | Dina Asher-Smith | two disciplines | 10 | $401,500 |
| 21 | Katerina Stefanidi | Women's pole vault | 15 | $394,500 |
| 22 | Valarie Sion | Women's discus throw | 20 | $389,000 |
| 23 | Soufiane El Bakkali | four disciplines | 22 | $388,500 |
| 24 | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | Women's high jump | 21 | $382,250 |
| 25 | Alison dos Santos | three disciplines | 22 | $380,500 |
| 26 | Elaine Thompson-Herah | two disciplines | 21 | $380,500 |
| 27 | Ivana Španović | two disciplines | 18 | $373,000 |
| 28 | Tom Walsh | Men's shot put | 13 | $372,000 |
| 29 | Pedro Pichardo | Men's triple jump | 17 | $370,500 |
| 30 | Barbora Špotáková | Women's javelin throw | 19 | $365,500 |
| 31 | Valerie Adams | Women's shot put | 30 | $361,500 |
| 32 | Daniel Ståhl | Men's discus throw | 13 | $355,750 |
| 33 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | four disciplines | 19 | $348,000 |
| 34 | Chase Jackson | Women's shot put | 18 | $347,500 |
| 35 | Blessing Okagbare | three disciplines | 11 | $338,250 |
| 36 | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | two disciplines | 21 | $335,000 |
| 37 | Emmanuel Wanyonyi | two disciplines | 15 | $321,500 |
| 38 | Julien Alfred | two disciplines | 13 | $316,000 |
| 39 | Piotr Małachowski | Men's discus throw | 18 | $312,500 |
| 40 | Kirani James | Men's 400 m | 17 | $310,250 |
| 41 | Ryan Crouser | Men's shot put | 15 | $310,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Renaud Lavillenie is 7th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $466,833.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Renaud Lavillenie most
IAAF Diamond League Shanghai 2018 paid $10,000 for 1st in the pole vault, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Piotr Lisek, Changrui Xue, Kurtis Marschall, Yao Jie, Shawn Barber and Raphael Holzdeppe.
Prefontaine Classic 2016 paid $10,000 for 1st in the pole vault, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Shawn Barber, Sam Kendricks, Paweł Wojciechowski, Konstantinos Filippidis, Piotr Lisek and Changrui Xue.
Bislett Games 2016 paid $10,000 for 1st in the pole vault, one of six in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Shawn Barber, Paweł Wojciechowski, Stanley Joseph, Changrui Xue and Eirik Dolve.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Renaud Lavillenie won?
$466,833, which ranks 7th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 72 paid finishes between 2010 and 2026.
What is Renaud Lavillenie's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the pole vault at the 2018 IAAF Diamond League Shanghai. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 1st 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 win 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.
How many Diamond League meetings has Renaud Lavillenie won?
33 of 81, worth $328,000 between them. Three of his appearances came at a final, which paid $13,000.
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. Those starts 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 224 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 3,683 athletes across the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Renaud Lavillenie is Sam Kendricks on $481,917, and one below Femke Broeders-Bol on $456,000. Renaud Lavillenie is one of 181 France athletes athletics has paid, and France athletics prize money adds them up to $3,087,958 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.