Ronnie Baker prize money
Ronnie Baker has been paid $45,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 339th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from nine paid finishes in the men's 100 m, three 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
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2026 | 100 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2024 | 100 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2023 | 100 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Bauhausgalan 2021 | 100 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Herculis EBS 2021 | 100 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2021 | 100 m | 3rd | $7,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2021 | 100 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Meeting de Paris 2018 | 100 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2017 | 100 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| All nine | Men's 100 m | — | $45,250 |
The nine paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $45,250 is nine separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.08% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The Ultimate Championship
What Ronnie Baker did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 100 metres | 3rd | 9.93 | $40,000 |
The Ultimate Championship paid Ronnie Baker $40,000 for one finish over three days, against $45,250 from nine Diamond League starts between 2017 and 2026. Three days there paid him more than any whole Diamond League season has. He ran on the United States quartet that won the mixed 4 × 100 metres relay, $80,000 to the team rather than to any one of the four. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
The World Indoor Championships
What Ronnie Baker did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 60 metres | 6th | 6.59 | $4,000 |
The World Indoor Championships have paid Ronnie Baker $4,000 for one finish in Nanjing 2025, against $45,250 from nine Diamond League starts between 2017 and 2026. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
The World Athletics Relays
What Ronnie Baker ran on
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 4 × 100 metres relay | 1st | 37.43 | $40,000 |
The World Relays have paid $40,000 for the one team Ronnie Baker ran on in Gaborone 2026, and all of it went to the United States rather than to the four who ran. The $45,250 at the top of this page is what the Diamond League paid him. This is what World Athletics paid a country, and the two are not added together anywhere on the site. He was on the winning team once, which pays $40,000 against $20,000 for second. He ran alongside Pjai Austin, and the Diamond League has paid them too. The World Relays page holds all 12 finals across two championships and the $1,067,000 they paid out.
Season by season
2017 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | — | Doha Diamond League | $1,500 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | Meeting de Paris | $10,000 |
| 2019 | — | — | — | — |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 4 | 2 | Bauhausgalan | $30,500 |
| 2022 | — | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 1 | — | Meeting de Paris | $1,250 |
| 2024 | 1 | — | Xiamen Diamond League | $1,000 |
| 2025 | — | — | — | — |
| 2026 | 1 | — | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $1,000 |
season running total
2021 is the biggest of them, $30,500 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Ronnie Baker in 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2025, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $45,250.
Around Ronnie Baker on the money list
Ranks 319 to 359
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 319 | Sasha Zhoya | Men's 110 m hurdles | 2 | $49,250 |
| 320 | Gong Lijiao | Women's shot put | 4 | $49,000 |
| 321 | Ruswahl Samaai | Men's long jump | — | $49,000 |
| 322 | Ayomide Folorunso | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $48,750 |
| 323 | Khaddi Sagnia | Women's long jump | 1 | $48,250 |
| 324 | Morgan Lake | Women's high jump | 1 | $48,250 |
| 325 | Tia Clayton | Women's 100 m | 2 | $48,250 |
| 326 | Khallifah Rosser | Men's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $48,000 |
| 327 | Wilfried Happio | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $48,000 |
| 328 | Aleia Hobbs | Women's 100 m | 2 | $47,750 |
| 329 | Matteo Sioli | Men's high jump | 2 | $47,250 |
| 330 | Werkuha Getachew | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 2 | $47,250 |
| 331 | Davisleydi Velazco | Women's triple jump | 2 | $47,000 |
| 332 | Laulauga Tausaga | Women's discus throw | — | $47,000 |
| 333 | Agnes Jebet Ngetich | two disciplines | 2 | $46,750 |
| 334 | Nikki Hiltz | two disciplines | 2 | $46,750 |
| 335 | Menno Vloon | Men's pole vault | — | $46,667 |
| 336 | Will Claye | two disciplines | 1 | $46,250 |
| 337 | Abel Kipsang | three disciplines | 2 | $46,000 |
| 338 | Gemechu Godana | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 2 | $46,000 |
| 339 | Ronnie Baker | Men's 100 m | 3 | $45,250 |
| 340 | Freddie Crittenden | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $45,000 |
| 341 | Trevor Bassitt | two disciplines | — | $45,000 |
| 342 | Max Burgin | Men's 800 m | 1 | $44,750 |
| 343 | Thomas Röhler | Men's javelin throw | 2 | $44,750 |
| 344 | Alaysha Johnson | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $44,500 |
| 345 | Ciara Mageean | two disciplines | 1 | $44,250 |
| 346 | Patrizia Van der Weken | Women's 100 m | 1 | $44,250 |
| 347 | Femke Broeders-Bol | Women's 800 m | — | $44,000 |
| 348 | Jasmine Moore | two disciplines | 1 | $44,000 |
| 349 | Reynier Mena | Men's 200 m | 2 | $44,000 |
| 350 | Lilian Kasait Rengeruk | two disciplines | 1 | $43,750 |
| 351 | Hellen Obiri | two disciplines | 3 | $43,500 |
| 352 | Jacob Krop | two disciplines | 1 | $43,250 |
| 353 | Shunsuke Izumiya | Men's 110 m hurdles | 1 | $43,250 |
| 354 | Cheng Chao-tsun | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $43,000 |
| 355 | Jimmy Gressier | three disciplines | 1 | $43,000 |
| 356 | KC Lightfoot | Men's pole vault | 1 | $42,875 |
| 357 | Winnie Nanyondo | four disciplines | — | $42,750 |
| 358 | Tshepiso Masalela | Men's 800 m | 2 | $42,500 |
| 359 | Rhasidat Adeleke | two disciplines | 1 | $42,250 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Ronnie Baker is 339th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $45,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Ronnie Baker most
Bauhausgalan 2021 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 100 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Marcell Jacobs, CJ Ujah, Isiah Young, Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake and Marvin Bracy.
Herculis EBS 2021 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 100 m, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Akani Simbine, Marcell Jacobs, Andre De Grasse, Trayvon Bromell, Fred Kerley and Filippo Tortu.
Meeting de Paris 2018 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 100 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Jimmy Vicaut, Su Bingtian, Akani Simbine, Yohan Blake, Mike Rodgers and Arthur Cissé.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Ronnie Baker won?
$45,250, which ranks 339th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from nine paid finishes between 2017 and 2026.
What is Ronnie Baker's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 100 m at the 2021 Bauhausgalan. 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 Ronnie Baker 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 100 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 Ronnie Baker won?
Three of nine, worth $30,000 between them. One of his appearance came at a final, which paid $7,000.
How much did Ronnie Baker win at the Ultimate Championship?
$40,000, from one paid final at the 2026 championship in Budapest. World Athletics pays $150,000 for a win there, $75,000 for second and $40,000 for third, the same in all 26 individual events.
How much has Ronnie Baker won at the World Indoor Championships?
$4,000, 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.
What did Ronnie Baker's World Relays teams win?
$40,000, across one paid final in Gaborone 2026. The relays pay a team rather than a runner, so the cheque goes to the federation and not to Ronnie Baker or to any one of the four. A title pays $40,000 and the ladder reaches all eight teams in a final, down to $2,000 for 8th.
Is this everything Ronnie Baker earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 meetings. The Ultimate Championship, World Indoor Championships and World Relays 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 Ronnie Baker is Gemechu Godana on $46,000, and one below Freddie Crittenden on $45,000. Ronnie Baker is one of 352 United States athletes athletics has paid, and United States athletics prize money adds them up to $16,292,792 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 100 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Ronnie Baker has been paid in one of them. The biggest of the rest are men's pole vault, 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 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial has its own page across every edition of it. Ultimate Championship prize money is the 2026 championship in Budapest, $10,000,000 over three days, and the full finals are on the men's 100 metres and mixed 4 × 100 metres relay pages. 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 60 metres page. World Relays prize money is the Guangzhou 2025 and Gaborone 2026 championships, $1,087,000 put up across 12 finals that pay a team and never a runner, and the relay is on the men's 4 × 100 metres relay page.