Sha'Carri Richardson prize money
Sha'Carri Richardson has been paid $116,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 262nd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 22 paid finishes in the women's 100 m and women's 200 m, five 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 she finished, and what the card paid for it
The 22 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $116,250 is 22 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.1% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the 24 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Sha'Carri Richardson did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 100 metres | 5th | 10.94 | $11,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Sha'Carri Richardson $11,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $116,250 from 24 Diamond League starts between 2021 and 2026. She ran on the United States team that won the women's 4 × 100 metres relay, $80,000 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 Ultimate Championship
What Sha'Carri Richardson did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 100 metres | 3rd | 10.76 | $40,000 |
The Ultimate Championship paid Sha'Carri Richardson $40,000 for one finish over three days, against $116,250 from 24 Diamond League starts between 2021 and 2026. Three days there paid her more than any whole Diamond League season has. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
The Olympic Games
What Sha'Carri Richardson won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Women's 4 × 100 metres relay | Gold | - |
| Women's 100 metres | Silver | - |
The women's 4 × 100 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 $116,250 at the top of this page. The silver in the women's 100 metres paid nothing. Only a gold pays, so 97 of the 145 medals awarded on the athletics programme in Paris carried no money at all. The Olympic page holds all 48 golds, the $2,400,000 they paid and what the circuit pays the same champions.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Sha'Carri Richardson
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 100 m | 19 | 5 | 2021 to 2026 | $98,750 |
| Women's 200 m | 5 | - | 2021 to 2026 | $17,500 |
The women's 100 m has paid Sha'Carri Richardson $98,750 of the $116,250, which is 85% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2021 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | - | Müller Grand Prix Gateshead | $8,000 |
| 2022 | 3 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $8,750 |
| 2023 | 4 | 3 | Doha Diamond League | $34,000 |
| 2024 | 5 | 2 | Prefontaine Classic | $30,500 |
| 2025 | 3 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $8,000 |
| 2026 | 6 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $27,000 |
season running total
2023 is the biggest of them, $34,000 from four starts. Every season from 2021 to 2026 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $116,250.
Around Sha'Carri Richardson on the money list
Ranks 242 to 282
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 242 | Viola Jelagat Kibiwot | five disciplines | - | $126,500 |
| 243 | David Storl | Men's shot put | 5 | $125,500 |
| 244 | Tatsiana Khaladovich | Women's javelin throw | 5 | $125,250 |
| 245 | Tina Šutej | Women's pole vault | 1 | $123,250 |
| 246 | Robert Urbanek | Men's discus throw | 3 | $122,750 |
| 247 | Greg Rutherford | Men's long jump | 7 | $122,500 |
| 248 | Adam Kszczot | two disciplines | 5 | $122,000 |
| 249 | Jessica Hull | six disciplines | 1 | $121,750 |
| 250 | Tori Bowie | three disciplines | 8 | $121,500 |
| 251 | Mélina Robert-Michon | Women's discus throw | - | $121,250 |
| 252 | Brandon Starc | Men's high jump | 3 | $121,000 |
| 253 | Yenew Alamirew | three disciplines | 6 | $121,000 |
| 254 | Muktar Edris | two disciplines | 5 | $120,750 |
| 255 | Yarelis Barrios | Women's discus throw | 6 | $120,500 |
| 256 | Lyu Huihui | Women's javelin throw | 6 | $120,250 |
| 257 | Darrell Hill | Men's shot put | 1 | $119,000 |
| 258 | Andreas Hofmann | Men's javelin throw | 4 | $117,500 |
| 259 | Brimin Kiprop Kipruto | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 6 | $117,500 |
| 260 | JuVaughn Harrison | two disciplines | 4 | $117,250 |
| 261 | Henriette Jæger | two disciplines | 3 | $116,500 |
| 262 | Sha'Carri Richardson | two disciplines | 5 | $116,250 |
| 263 | Yasmani Copello | Men's 400 m hurdles | 2 | $116,250 |
| 264 | Malte Mohr | Men's pole vault | 3 | $116,000 |
| 265 | Rumesh Tharanga | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $116,000 |
| 266 | Lorraine Ugen | Women's long jump | 2 | $115,000 |
| 267 | Woo Sang-hyeok | Men's high jump | 5 | $113,750 |
| 268 | Anna Cockrell | Women's 400 m hurdles | 4 | $113,500 |
| 269 | Godfrey Khotso Mokoena | two disciplines | 3 | $113,000 |
| 270 | Kelsey-Lee Barber | Women's javelin throw | 1 | $113,000 |
| 271 | Magnus Kirt | Men's javelin throw | 2 | $112,500 |
| 272 | Jesse Williams | Men's high jump | 3 | $112,083 |
| 273 | Angelica Moser | Women's pole vault | 2 | $111,875 |
| 274 | Darya Klishina | Women's long jump | 3 | $111,500 |
| 275 | Robbie Grabarz | Men's high jump | 2 | $111,458 |
| 276 | Ronnie Baker | Men's 100 m | 6 | $111,250 |
| 277 | Devon Allen | Men's 110 m hurdles | 4 | $111,000 |
| 278 | Erik Kynard | Men's high jump | 2 | $111,000 |
| 279 | Birhanu Balew | two disciplines | 3 | $110,750 |
| 280 | Eilidh Doyle | Women's 400 m hurdles | 2 | $110,500 |
| 281 | Nesta Carter | Men's 100 m | 2 | $110,500 |
| 282 | Jenn Suhr | Women's pole vault | 5 | $110,250 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Sha'Carri Richardson is 262nd of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $116,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Sha'Carri Richardson most
Prefontaine Classic 2024 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 100 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Julien Alfred, Dina Asher-Smith, Daryll Neita, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith and Twanisha Terry.
Weltklasse Zürich 2024 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 100 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Julien Alfred, Dina Asher-Smith, Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith, Tamari Davis, Tia Clayton and Daryll Neita.
Doha Diamond League 2023 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 100 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Shericka Jackson, Dina Asher-Smith, Twanisha Terry, Zoe Hobbs, Teahna Daniels and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Sha'Carri Richardson won?
$116,250, which ranks 262nd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 22 paid finishes between 2021 and 2026.
What is Sha'Carri Richardson's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 100 m at the 2024 Prefontaine Classic. 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 Sha'Carri Richardson 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 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 Sha'Carri Richardson won?
Five of 24, worth $50,000 between them. Four of her appearances came at a final, which paid $13,500.
Has Sha'Carri Richardson ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Two 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 Sha'Carri Richardson win at the 2025 World Championships?
$11,000, 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.
How much did Sha'Carri Richardson 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.
Is this everything Sha'Carri Richardson earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Championships and Ultimate Championship 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 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 Sha'Carri Richardson is Henriette Jæger on $116,500, and one below Yasmani Copello on $116,250. Sha'Carri Richardson 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 100 m prize money and women's 200 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Sha'Carri Richardson has been paid in two of them. The biggest of the rest are women's 100 m hurdles, women's 400 m and women's 800 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and AG Memorial Van Damme 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 women's 100 metres and women's 4 × 100 metres relay pages. Ultimate Championship prize money is the 2026 championship in Budapest, $10,000,000 over three days, and the full final is on the women's 100 metres page.