Rusheen McDonald prize money
Rusheen McDonald has been paid $32,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 865th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from eleven paid finishes in the men'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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bislett Games 2024 | 400 m | 8th | $500 |
| Memorial Van Damme 2023 | 400 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2023 | 400 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2023 | 400 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2023 | 400 m | 5th | $2,500 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2016 | 400 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2016 | 400 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| Meeting Areva 2015 | 400 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2015 | 400 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Athletissima 2012 | 400 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| Aviva British Grand Prix 2012 | 400 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| All eleven | Men's 400 m | - | $32,000 |
The eleven paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $32,000 is eleven separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.03% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The World Championships
What Rusheen McDonald did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 400 metres | 4th | 44.28 | $16,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Rusheen McDonald $16,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $32,000 from eleven Diamond League starts between 2012 and 2024. He ran on the Jamaica team that finished 7th in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay, $6,000 to the federation rather than to any one of the four. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The World Indoor Championships
What Rusheen McDonald did indoors
Rusheen McDonald went to the World Indoor Championships on a relay and ran no individual final there. He ran on the Jamaica team that finished 2nd in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay in Nanjing 2025, $20,000 to the team rather than to any one of the four. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
Season by season
2012 to 2024, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2 | - | Athletissima | $4,500 |
| 2013 | - | - | - | - |
| 2014 | - | - | - | - |
| 2015 | 2 | - | Meeting Areva | $5,000 |
| 2016 | 2 | - | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $2,500 |
| 2017 | - | - | - | - |
| 2018 | - | - | - | - |
| 2019 | - | - | - | - |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | - | - | - | - |
| 2022 | - | - | - | - |
| 2023 | 4 | 1 | Memorial Van Damme | $19,500 |
| 2024 | 1 | - | Bislett Games | $500 |
season running total
2023 is the biggest of them, $19,500 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Rusheen McDonald in 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $32,000.
Around Rusheen McDonald on the money list
Ranks 845 to 885
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 845 | Benjamin Kiplagat | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $33,000 |
| 846 | Brittany Smith | Women's shot put | - | $33,000 |
| 847 | Eliud Kipchoge | two disciplines | 1 | $33,000 |
| 848 | Elliot Giles | three disciplines | - | $33,000 |
| 849 | Georgia Griffith | three disciplines | 1 | $33,000 |
| 850 | Ihab Abdelrahman | Men's javelin throw | 4 | $33,000 |
| 851 | Jiřina Ptáčníková | Women's pole vault | - | $33,000 |
| 852 | Kurt Roberts | Men's shot put | 1 | $33,000 |
| 853 | Meraf Bahta | three disciplines | - | $33,000 |
| 854 | Michael Frater | Men's 100 m | - | $33,000 |
| 855 | O'Dayne Richards | Men's shot put | - | $33,000 |
| 856 | Tori Franklin | Women's triple jump | - | $32,750 |
| 857 | Makanakaishe Charamba | Men's 200 m | - | $32,500 |
| 858 | Perdita Felicien | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $32,500 |
| 859 | Sage Hurta-Klecker | two disciplines | - | $32,500 |
| 860 | Sigrid Borge | Women's javelin throw | - | $32,500 |
| 861 | Eilish McColgan | five disciplines | - | $32,250 |
| 862 | Ezekiel Nathaniel | two disciplines | - | $32,000 |
| 863 | Kanyinsola Ajayi | Men's 100 m | 1 | $32,000 |
| 864 | Natasha Morrison | two disciplines | - | $32,000 |
| 865 | Rusheen McDonald | Men's 400 m | 1 | $32,000 |
| 866 | Tosin Oke | Men's triple jump | - | $32,000 |
| 867 | Adrian Piperi | Men's shot put | - | $31,750 |
| 868 | Django Lovett | Men's high jump | 1 | $31,750 |
| 869 | Jodie Williams | two disciplines | - | $31,750 |
| 870 | Robeilys Peinado | Women's pole vault | - | $31,750 |
| 871 | Vincent Kibet | two disciplines | - | $31,750 |
| 872 | Chris Carter | Men's triple jump | 1 | $31,500 |
| 873 | David Girat | Men's triple jump | 1 | $31,500 |
| 874 | Dong Bin | Men's triple jump | - | $31,500 |
| 875 | Benn Harradine | Men's discus throw | - | $31,000 |
| 876 | Biniam Mehary | two disciplines | - | $31,000 |
| 877 | Cory Martin | Men's shot put | - | $31,000 |
| 878 | Galen Rupp | two disciplines | - | $31,000 |
| 879 | Jack Green | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $31,000 |
| 880 | Jo-Ané du Plessis | Women's javelin throw | - | $31,000 |
| 881 | Lacy Janson | Women's pole vault | - | $31,000 |
| 882 | Naide Gomes | Women's long jump | - | $31,000 |
| 883 | Nathan Strother | Men's 400 m | - | $31,000 |
| 884 | Tonea Marshall | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $30,750 |
| 885 | Wang Yu | Men's high jump | 1 | $30,750 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Rusheen McDonald is 865th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $32,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Rusheen McDonald most
Memorial Van Damme 2023 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 400 m, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Alexander Ogando, Håvard Bentdal Ingvaldsen, Leungo Scotch, Gilles Biron, Dylan Borlée and Alexander Doom.
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2023 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 400 m, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Zakithi Nene, Bayapo Ndori, Alex Haydock-Wilson, Hamza Dair, Steven Gardiner and Vernon Norwood.
Xiamen Diamond League 2023 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 400 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Vernon Norwood, Gilles Biron, Attila Molnár, Yuki Joseph Nakajima, Zandrion Barnes and Alex Haydock-Wilson.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Rusheen McDonald won?
$32,000, which ranks 865th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from eleven paid finishes between 2012 and 2024.
What is Rusheen McDonald's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 400 m at the 2023 Memorial Van Damme. 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 Rusheen McDonald 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 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 Rusheen McDonald won?
One of eleven, worth $10,000 between them. One of his appearance came at a final, which paid $2,500.
How much did Rusheen McDonald win at the 2025 World Championships?
$16,000, 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 Rusheen McDonald 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 Rusheen McDonald is Natasha Morrison on $32,000, and one below Tosin Oke on $32,000. Rusheen McDonald is one of 158 Jamaica athletes athletics has paid, and Jamaica athletics prize money adds them up to $8,413,000 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 400 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Rusheen McDonald has been paid in one 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 Bislett Games 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 finals are on the men's 400 metres and men's 4 × 400 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 4 × 400 metres relay page.