Valentin Lavillenie prize money
Valentin Lavillenie has been paid $9,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 882nd of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from seven paid finishes in the men's pole vault, the best of them 4th.
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 2022 | Pole vault | 5th | $1,250 |
| Meeting de Paris 2022 | Pole vault | 7th | $750 |
| Bislett Games 2021 | Pole vault | 4th | $2,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2021 | Pole vault | 6th | $1,000 |
| Athletissima 2021 | Pole vault | 9th | — |
| Allianz Memorial Van Damme 2021 | Pole vault | 11th | — |
| Prefontaine Classic 2019 | Pole vault | 6th | $2,000 |
| Herculis 2019 | Pole vault | 7th | $1,500 |
| Athletissima 2019 | Pole vault | =8th | $500 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2019 | Pole vault | 12th | — |
| Meeting de Paris 2017 | Pole vault | 9th | — |
| All eleven | Men's pole vault | — | $9,000 |
The seven paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $9,000 is seven separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.02% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. Four of the eleven starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Season by season
2017 to 2022, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | — | Meeting de Paris | — |
| 2018 | — | — | — | — |
| 2019 | 4 | — | Prefontaine Classic | $4,000 |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 4 | — | Bislett Games | $3,000 |
| 2022 | 2 | — | Doha Diamond League | $2,000 |
season running total
2019 is the biggest of them, $4,000 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Valentin Lavillenie in 2017, 2018 and 2020, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $9,000.
Around Valentin Lavillenie on the money list
Ranks 862 to 902
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 862 | Kyra Jefferson | two disciplines | — | $9,500 |
| 863 | Lexy Halladay-Lowry | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $9,500 |
| 864 | Lythe Pillay | Men's 400 m | — | $9,500 |
| 865 | Tarsis Orogot | Men's 200 m | — | $9,500 |
| 866 | Teahna Daniels | two disciplines | — | $9,500 |
| 867 | Tobias Grønstad | Men's 800 m | — | $9,500 |
| 868 | Jeron Robinson | Men's high jump | — | $9,250 |
| 869 | Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova | Women's long jump | — | $9,250 |
| 870 | Robbie Grabarz | Men's high jump | — | $9,250 |
| 871 | Rohan Watson | Men's 100 m | — | $9,250 |
| 872 | Ryoichi Akamatsu | Men's high jump | — | $9,250 |
| 873 | Zach Bradford | Men's pole vault | — | $9,250 |
| 874 | Adam Kszczot | Men's 800 m | — | $9,000 |
| 875 | Jerome Blake | two disciplines | — | $9,000 |
| 876 | Jonathan Jones | Men's 400 m | — | $9,000 |
| 877 | Karyna Taranda | Women's high jump | — | $9,000 |
| 878 | Kori Carter | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $9,000 |
| 879 | Mathew Sawe | Men's high jump | — | $9,000 |
| 880 | Milan Trajkovic | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $9,000 |
| 881 | Samuel Pihlström | two disciplines | — | $9,000 |
| 882 | Valentin Lavillenie | Men's pole vault | — | $9,000 |
| 883 | Veronica Vancardo | Women's 800 m | — | $9,000 |
| 884 | Viivi Lehikoinen | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $9,000 |
| 885 | Yelena Sokolova | Women's long jump | — | $9,000 |
| 886 | Aynadis Mebratu | two disciplines | — | $8,750 |
| 887 | Elena Bellò | Women's 800 m | — | $8,750 |
| 888 | Lovisa Lindh | Women's 800 m | — | $8,750 |
| 889 | Mouhamadou Fall | two disciplines | — | $8,750 |
| 890 | Sara Kolak | Women's javelin throw | — | $8,750 |
| 891 | Saúl Ordóñez | two disciplines | — | $8,750 |
| 892 | Alemnat Walle | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $8,500 |
| 893 | Alex Rose | Men's discus throw | — | $8,500 |
| 894 | Celera Barnes | Women's 100 m | — | $8,500 |
| 895 | Eduardo Herrera | two disciplines | — | $8,500 |
| 896 | José Figueroa | Men's 200 m | — | $8,500 |
| 897 | Laura Weightman | three disciplines | — | $8,500 |
| 898 | Naomi Van den Broeck | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $8,500 |
| 899 | Raymond Richards | Men's high jump | — | $8,500 |
| 900 | Sarah Lavin | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $8,500 |
| 901 | Tadese Takele | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $8,500 |
| 902 | Tasa Jiya | Women's 200 m | — | $8,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Valentin Lavillenie is 882nd of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $9,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Valentin Lavillenie most
Bislett Games 2021 paid $2,000 for 4th in the pole vault, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Simen Guttormsen, Sondre Guttormsen, Pål Haugen Lillefosse, Armand Duplantis, Sam Kendricks and Renaud Lavillenie.
Prefontaine Classic 2019 paid $2,000 for 6th in the pole vault, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Thiago Braz da Silva, Renaud Lavillenie, Armand Duplantis, Sam Kendricks, Piotr Lisek and Chris Nilsen.
Herculis 2019 paid $1,500 for 7th in the pole vault, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Alioune Sene, Cole Walsh, Seito Yamamoto, Piotr Lisek, Armand Duplantis and Thiago Braz.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Valentin Lavillenie won?
$9,000, which ranks 882nd of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from seven paid finishes between 2017 and 2022.
What is Valentin Lavillenie's biggest Diamond League payday?
$2,000, for finishing 4th in the pole vault at the 2021 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 4th and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Valentin 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 place 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.
Has Valentin Lavillenie ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Four 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. He are in the result tables on this site either way.
Is this everything Valentin Lavillenie 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 Valentin Lavillenie is Samuel Pihlström on $9,000, and one below Veronica Vancardo on $9,000. Valentin Lavillenie is one of 104 France athletes athletics has paid, and France athletics prize money adds them up to $1,290,042 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 Valentin 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 Doha Diamond League has its own page across every edition of it.