Vashti Cunningham prize money
Vashti Cunningham has been paid $53,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 583rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from thirteen paid finishes in the women's high jump, 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 she finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2026 | High jump | 9th | - |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2026 | High jump | 11th | - |
| Meeting de Paris 2025 | High jump | 4th | $3,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2025 | High jump | =4th | $2,250 |
| Meeting de Paris 2023 | High jump | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2023 | High jump | 6th | $2,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2022 | High jump | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2021 | High jump | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2019 | High jump | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Müller Anniversary Games 2018 | High jump | =3rd | $3,500 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2018 | High jump | 6th | $2,000 |
| Müller Anniversary Games 2017 | High jump | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2017 | High jump | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Herculis 2017 | High jump | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2016 | High jump | 5th | $2,500 |
| All fifteen | Women's high jump | - | $53,250 |
The thirteen paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $53,250 is thirteen separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.05% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the fifteen starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Indoor Championships
What Vashti Cunningham did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's high jump | 10th | - | - |
Vashti Cunningham stood in one World Indoor Championships final and finished outside the money. The championships pay six places, $40,000 for a title down to $4,000 for 6th, and nothing at all below that. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
Season by season
2016 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $2,500 |
| 2017 | 3 | - | Müller Anniversary Games | $14,000 |
| 2018 | 2 | - | Müller Anniversary Games | $5,500 |
| 2019 | 1 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $6,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 1 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $6,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $6,000 |
| 2023 | 2 | - | Meeting de Paris | $8,000 |
| 2024 | - | - | - | - |
| 2025 | 2 | - | Meeting de Paris | $5,250 |
| 2026 | 2 | - | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | - |
season running total
2017 is the biggest of them, $14,000 from three starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Vashti Cunningham in 2020, 2024 and 2026, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $53,250.
Around Vashti Cunningham on the money list
Ranks 563 to 603
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 563 | Robert Biwott | three disciplines | 1 | $55,000 |
| 564 | Wayne Pinnock | Men's long jump | 2 | $55,000 |
| 565 | Margaret Kipkemboi | two disciplines | - | $54,750 |
| 566 | Ben Broeders | Men's pole vault | 1 | $54,500 |
| 567 | Cole Hocker | three disciplines | 1 | $54,500 |
| 568 | Dwight Thomas | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $54,500 |
| 569 | Ejgayehu Taye | two disciplines | - | $54,500 |
| 570 | Gabriel Tual | two disciplines | - | $54,500 |
| 571 | Kristin Pudenz | Women's discus throw | - | $54,500 |
| 572 | Ja'Kobe Tharp | Men's 110 m hurdles | 2 | $54,000 |
| 573 | Shakima Wimbley | Women's 400 m | - | $54,000 |
| 574 | Emily Grove | Women's pole vault | 1 | $53,750 |
| 575 | Filip Ingebrigtsen | five disciplines | - | $53,750 |
| 576 | Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko | Women's triple jump | - | $53,750 |
| 577 | Andrew Pozzi | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $53,500 |
| 578 | Clayton Murphy | three disciplines | - | $53,500 |
| 579 | Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie | two disciplines | - | $53,500 |
| 580 | Michael Hartfield | Men's long jump | 1 | $53,500 |
| 581 | Shelby McEwen | Men's high jump | 2 | $53,375 |
| 582 | Reece Prescod | two disciplines | 1 | $53,250 |
| 583 | Vashti Cunningham | Women's high jump | - | $53,250 |
| 584 | Christine Ohuruogu | Women's 400 m | 2 | $53,000 |
| 585 | Freddie Crittenden | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $53,000 |
| 586 | Kelly-Ann Baptiste | two disciplines | 1 | $53,000 |
| 587 | Quanesha Burks | Women's long jump | 1 | $53,000 |
| 588 | Sembo Almayew | two disciplines | 1 | $53,000 |
| 589 | Léa Sprunger | three disciplines | 1 | $52,750 |
| 590 | Jennifer Meadows | Women's 800 m | 2 | $52,500 |
| 591 | Żaneta Glanc | Women's discus throw | - | $52,500 |
| 592 | Adam Gemili | two disciplines | - | $52,000 |
| 593 | Björn Otto | Men's pole vault | 1 | $52,000 |
| 594 | Frank Casanas | Men's discus throw | 1 | $52,000 |
| 595 | Hillary Bor | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $52,000 |
| 596 | Johnny Dutch | Men's 400 m hurdles | 3 | $52,000 |
| 597 | Mariya Abakumova | Women's javelin throw | 5 | $52,000 |
| 598 | Melaine Walker | Women's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $52,000 |
| 599 | Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu | three disciplines | 3 | $51,750 |
| 600 | Abubaker Kaki | Men's 800 m | 3 | $51,500 |
| 601 | Shanice Craft | two disciplines | - | $51,500 |
| 602 | Tia Brooks-Wannemacher | Women's shot put | 2 | $51,500 |
| 603 | Erika Kinsey | Women's high jump | - | $51,333 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Vashti Cunningham is 583rd of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $53,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Vashti Cunningham most
Meeting de Paris 2023 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the high jump, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Angelina Topić, Iryna Herashchenko, Morgan Lake, Yuliya Levchenko, Nawal Meniker and Anna Hall.
Prefontaine Classic 2022 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the high jump, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Nadezhda Dubovitskaya, Iryna Herashchenko, Elena Vallortigara, Nicola Olyslagers, Emily Borthwick and Yuliya Levchenko.
Prefontaine Classic 2021 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the high jump, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Kamila Lićwinko, Yuliya Levchenko, Rachel McCoy, Alessia Trost, Erika Kinsey and Jelena Rowe.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Vashti Cunningham won?
$53,250, which ranks 583rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from thirteen paid finishes between 2016 and 2026.
What is Vashti Cunningham's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the high jump at the 2023 Meeting de Paris. 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 Vashti Cunningham 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 place is worth the same in the women's high jump 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 Vashti Cunningham 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.
Is this everything Vashti Cunningham earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 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 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 Vashti Cunningham is Reece Prescod on $53,250, and one below Christine Ohuruogu on $53,000. Vashti Cunningham 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 high jump prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Vashti Cunningham has been paid in one of them. The biggest of the rest are women's 100 m, women's 100 m hurdles and women's 400 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat has its own page across every edition of it. 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 women's high jump page.