Yaime Pérez prize money
Yaime Pérez has been paid $178,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 54th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from 20 paid finishes in the women's discus throw, 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 20 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $178,000 is 20 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.3% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them.
Season by season
2017 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | — | Bislett Games | $6,000 |
| 2018 | 2 | — | Doha Diamond League | $12,000 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3 | AG Memorial Van Damme | $76,000 |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | 2 | Doha Diamond League | $39,000 |
| 2022 | — | — | — | — |
| 2023 | — | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 3 | — | AG Memorial Van Damme | $19,000 |
| 2025 | 5 | — | Weltklasse Zürich | $26,000 |
season running total
2019 is the biggest of them, $76,000 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Yaime Pérez in 2020, 2022 and 2023, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $178,000.
Around Yaime Pérez on the money list
Ranks 34 to 74
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | Sandi Morris | Women's pole vault | 9 | $210,500 |
| 35 | Ryan Crouser | Men's shot put | 10 | $210,000 |
| 36 | Malaika Mihambo | Women's long jump | 8 | $207,750 |
| 37 | Marie-Josée Ta Lou | two disciplines | 5 | $202,000 |
| 38 | Haruka Kitaguchi | Women's javelin throw | 11 | $199,500 |
| 39 | Fred Kerley | three disciplines | 8 | $198,250 |
| 40 | Faith Cherotich | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 8 | $198,000 |
| 41 | Nina Kennedy | Women's pole vault | 11 | $197,500 |
| 42 | Sifan Hassan | five disciplines | 8 | $196,750 |
| 43 | Tom Walsh | Men's shot put | 6 | $195,000 |
| 44 | Winfred Yavi | two disciplines | 8 | $193,000 |
| 45 | Audrey Werro | two disciplines | 7 | $191,500 |
| 46 | Salwa Eid Naser | two disciplines | 9 | $190,500 |
| 47 | Christian Coleman | two disciplines | 7 | $190,000 |
| 48 | Beatrice Chepkoech | three disciplines | 9 | $188,500 |
| 49 | Rai Benjamin | four disciplines | 8 | $187,250 |
| 50 | Leyanis Pérez | Women's triple jump | 9 | $183,250 |
| 51 | Freweyni Hailu | five disciplines | 6 | $183,000 |
| 52 | Beatrice Chebet | three disciplines | 11 | $180,250 |
| 53 | Andre De Grasse | two disciplines | 6 | $178,000 |
| 54 | Yaime Pérez | Women's discus throw | 5 | $178,000 |
| 55 | Larissa Iapichino | Women's long jump | 6 | $177,500 |
| 56 | Emmanouil Karalis | Men's pole vault | 3 | $170,875 |
| 57 | Keely Hodgkinson | two disciplines | 9 | $170,500 |
| 58 | Sarah Mitton | Women's shot put | 3 | $170,250 |
| 59 | Danielle Williams | Women's 100 m hurdles | 7 | $169,250 |
| 60 | Kirani James | Men's 400 m | 6 | $166,250 |
| 61 | Mariya Lasitskene | Women's high jump | 9 | $164,000 |
| 62 | Marco Arop | two disciplines | 5 | $162,000 |
| 63 | Jakub Vadlejch | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $161,250 |
| 64 | Anderson Peters | Men's javelin throw | 7 | $161,000 |
| 65 | Jasmine Camacho-Quinn | Women's 100 m hurdles | 12 | $158,500 |
| 66 | Sandra Perković | Women's discus throw | 5 | $158,000 |
| 67 | Jessica Schilder | Women's shot put | 5 | $153,250 |
| 68 | Tajay Gayle | Men's long jump | 4 | $151,750 |
| 69 | Mary Moraa | three disciplines | 9 | $151,500 |
| 70 | Neeraj Chopra | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $150,500 |
| 71 | Cordell Tinch | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $149,500 |
| 72 | Gianmarco Tamberi | Men's high jump | 5 | $149,250 |
| 73 | Jamal Britt | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $148,500 |
| 74 | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | two disciplines | 8 | $147,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Yaime Pérez is 54th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $178,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Yaime Pérez most
AG Memorial Van Damme 2019 paid $50,000 for 1st in the discus throw, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Sandra Perković, Kristin Pudenz, Denia Caballero, Claudine Vita, Valarie Allman and Nadine Müller.
Doha Diamond League 2021 paid $10,000 for 1st in the discus throw, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Valarie Allman, Sandra Perković, Claudine Vita, Denia Caballero, Marija Tolj and Subenrat Insaeng.
Allianz Memorial Van Damme 2021 paid $10,000 for 1st in the discus throw, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Valarie Allman, Sandra Perković, Denia Caballero, Marija Tolj, Liliana Cá and Kristin Pudenz.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Yaime Pérez won?
$178,000, which ranks 54th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from 20 paid finishes between 2017 and 2025.
What is Yaime Pérez's biggest Diamond League payday?
$50,000, for finishing 1st in the discus throw at the 2019 AG Memorial Van Damme. That is a final, which is why it is the biggest: the final pays two to five times what the same place is worth at a series meeting.
How does the Diamond League decide what Yaime Pérez 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 discus throw 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 Yaime Pérez won?
Five of 20, worth $90,000 between them. Four of her appearances came at a final, which paid $71,000.
Is this everything Yaime Pérez 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 her, 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 Yaime Pérez is Andre De Grasse on $178,000, and one below Larissa Iapichino on $177,500. Yaime Pérez is one of 18 Cuba athletes athletics has paid, and Cuba athletics prize money adds them up to $1,246,250 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's discus throw prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Yaime Pérez 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 800 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Weltklasse Zürich has its own page across every edition of it.