Thomas Barr prize money
Thomas Barr has been paid $32,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 440th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from eleven paid finishes in the men's 400 m hurdles, 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
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doha Diamond League 2023 | 400 m hurdles | 7th | $750 |
| Doha Diamond League 2022 | 400 m hurdles | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Doha Diamond League 2021 | 400 m hurdles | 7th | $750 |
| Oslo Bislett Games 2019 | 400 m hurdles | 2nd | $6,000 |
| IAAF Diamond League Shanghai 2019 | 400 m hurdles | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2019 | 400 m hurdles | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2019 | 400 m hurdles | 6th | $4,000 |
| Müller Grand Prix Birmingham 2019 | 400 m hurdles | 5th | $2,500 |
| Meeting de Paris 2019 | 400 m hurdles | 7th | $1,500 |
| Bislett Games 2018 | 400 m hurdles | 8th | $1,000 |
| Bislett Games 2017 | 400 m hurdles | 3rd | $4,000 |
| All eleven | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $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 0.06% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them.
Season by season
2017 to 2023, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | — | Bislett Games | $4,000 |
| 2018 | 1 | — | Bislett Games | $1,000 |
| 2019 | 6 | — | Oslo Bislett Games | $22,000 |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 1 | — | Doha Diamond League | $750 |
| 2022 | 1 | — | Doha Diamond League | $3,500 |
| 2023 | 1 | — | Doha Diamond League | $750 |
season running total
2019 is the biggest of them, $22,000 from six starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Thomas Barr in 2020, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $32,000.
Around Thomas Barr on the money list
Ranks 420 to 460
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 420 | Yanis Meziane | Men's 800 m | — | $34,000 |
| 421 | Addisu Yihune | two disciplines | 2 | $33,750 |
| 422 | Celliphine Chespol | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $33,750 |
| 423 | Xie Zhenye | two disciplines | — | $33,750 |
| 424 | Gesa Felicitas Krause | two disciplines | — | $33,500 |
| 425 | Gift Leotlela | Men's 100 m | 1 | $33,500 |
| 426 | Julius Yego | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $33,500 |
| 427 | Mohamed Attaoui | two disciplines | 1 | $33,500 |
| 428 | Georgia Griffith | three disciplines | 1 | $33,000 |
| 429 | Andreas Almgren | three disciplines | 1 | $32,750 |
| 430 | Makanakaishe Charamba | Men's 200 m | — | $32,500 |
| 431 | Mark English | Men's 800 m | 1 | $32,500 |
| 432 | Wilma Murto | Women's pole vault | 1 | $32,500 |
| 433 | Anthonique Strachan | two disciplines | — | $32,250 |
| 434 | Bohdan Bondarenko | Men's high jump | 2 | $32,000 |
| 435 | Ezekiel Nathaniel | two disciplines | — | $32,000 |
| 436 | Ivana Vuleta | Women's long jump | 2 | $32,000 |
| 437 | Kanyinsola Ajayi | Men's 100 m | 1 | $32,000 |
| 438 | Rababe Arafi | three disciplines | 1 | $32,000 |
| 439 | Shakima Wimbley | Women's 400 m | — | $32,000 |
| 440 | Thomas Barr | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $32,000 |
| 441 | Adrian Piperi | Men's shot put | — | $31,750 |
| 442 | Django Lovett | Men's high jump | 1 | $31,750 |
| 443 | Emma Coburn | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $31,750 |
| 444 | Sharika Nelvis | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $31,500 |
| 445 | Vashti Cunningham | Women's high jump | — | $31,250 |
| 446 | Álex Quiñónez | Men's 200 m | — | $31,000 |
| 447 | Biniam Mehary | two disciplines | — | $31,000 |
| 448 | Marcin Lewandowski | three disciplines | 1 | $31,000 |
| 449 | Filip Ingebrigtsen | four disciplines | — | $30,750 |
| 450 | Tonea Marshall | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $30,750 |
| 451 | Anaïs Bourgoin | two disciplines | — | $30,500 |
| 452 | Graham Blanks | two disciplines | — | $30,500 |
| 453 | Samuel Tefera | four disciplines | — | $30,500 |
| 454 | Tia Jones | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $30,500 |
| 455 | Mirela Demireva | Women's high jump | — | $30,458 |
| 456 | Curtis Thompson | Men's javelin throw | — | $30,250 |
| 457 | Akeem Bloomfield | Men's 400 m | 2 | $30,000 |
| 458 | Brittney Reese | Women's long jump | — | $30,000 |
| 459 | Dawid Wegner | Men's javelin throw | — | $30,000 |
| 460 | Maia McCoy | two disciplines | — | $30,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Thomas Barr is 440th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $32,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Thomas Barr most
Oslo Bislett Games 2019 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 400 m hurdles, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Kyron McMaster, David Kendziera, Takatoshi Abe, Patryk Dobek, TJ Holmes and Karsten Warholm.
IAAF Diamond League Shanghai 2019 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the 400 m hurdles, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Patryk Dobek, Rasmus Mägi, Takatoshi Abe, Marcio Teles, Feng Zhiqiang and Abderrahman Samba.
Bauhausgalan 2019 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the 400 m hurdles, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Sebastian Rodger, Kenny Selmon, Jacob Paul, Carl Bengtström, Abdelmalik Lahoulou and Karsten Warholm.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Thomas Barr won?
$32,000, which ranks 440th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from eleven paid finishes between 2017 and 2023.
What is Thomas Barr's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the 400 m hurdles at the 2019 Oslo Bislett Games. 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 Thomas Barr 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 400 m hurdles 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.
Is this everything Thomas Barr earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 meetings. It holds no championship prize money, 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 Thomas Barr is Shakima Wimbley on $32,000, and one below Adrian Piperi on $31,750. Thomas Barr is one of 16 Ireland athletes athletics has paid, and Ireland athletics prize money adds them up to $317,000 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 400 m hurdles prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Thomas Barr 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 Doha Diamond League has its own page across every edition of it.