Yaime Pérez prize money
Yaime Pérez has been paid $307,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 43rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 41 paid finishes in the women's discus throw, eight 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 41 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $307,500 is 41 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.3% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
Season by season
2013 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | - | Athletissima | $5,500 |
| 2014 | 5 | - | Shanghai Golden Grand Prix | $11,500 |
| 2015 | 4 | 1 | Athletissima | $23,000 |
| 2016 | 3 | - | Bauhausgalan | $8,000 |
| 2017 | 5 | 1 | Bauhausgalan | $25,500 |
| 2018 | 5 | 1 | AG Memorial Van Damme | $74,000 |
| 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 $307,500.
Around Yaime Pérez on the money list
Ranks 23 to 63
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | Soufiane El Bakkali | four disciplines | 22 | $388,500 |
| 24 | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | Women's high jump | 21 | $382,250 |
| 25 | Alison dos Santos | three disciplines | 22 | $380,500 |
| 26 | Elaine Thompson-Herah | two disciplines | 21 | $380,500 |
| 27 | Ivana Španović | two disciplines | 18 | $373,000 |
| 28 | Tom Walsh | Men's shot put | 13 | $372,000 |
| 29 | Pedro Pichardo | Men's triple jump | 17 | $370,500 |
| 30 | Barbora Špotáková | Women's javelin throw | 19 | $365,500 |
| 31 | Valerie Adams | Women's shot put | 30 | $361,500 |
| 32 | Daniel Ståhl | Men's discus throw | 13 | $355,750 |
| 33 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | four disciplines | 19 | $348,000 |
| 34 | Chase Jackson | Women's shot put | 18 | $347,500 |
| 35 | Blessing Okagbare | three disciplines | 11 | $338,250 |
| 36 | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | two disciplines | 21 | $335,000 |
| 37 | Emmanuel Wanyonyi | two disciplines | 15 | $321,500 |
| 38 | Julien Alfred | two disciplines | 13 | $316,000 |
| 39 | Piotr Małachowski | Men's discus throw | 18 | $312,500 |
| 40 | Kirani James | Men's 400 m | 17 | $310,250 |
| 41 | Ryan Crouser | Men's shot put | 15 | $310,000 |
| 42 | Gong Lijiao | Women's shot put | 13 | $309,000 |
| 43 | Yaime Pérez | Women's discus throw | 8 | $307,500 |
| 44 | Conseslus Kipruto | two disciplines | 15 | $305,500 |
| 45 | Caster Semenya | three disciplines | 20 | $304,000 |
| 46 | Asbel Kiprop | four disciplines | 19 | $302,500 |
| 47 | Hellen Obiri | five disciplines | 13 | $301,000 |
| 48 | Sandi Morris | Women's pole vault | 12 | $300,500 |
| 49 | Kaliese Carter | two disciplines | 21 | $297,500 |
| 50 | Beatrice Chepkoech | three disciplines | 11 | $297,000 |
| 51 | Salwa Eid Naser | two disciplines | 13 | $296,500 |
| 52 | Katie Moon | Women's pole vault | 11 | $292,875 |
| 53 | Orlando Ortega | Men's 110 m hurdles | 11 | $287,500 |
| 54 | Kenny Bednarek | two disciplines | 13 | $286,500 |
| 55 | Allyson Felix | three disciplines | 19 | $283,250 |
| 56 | Jakub Vadlejch | Men's javelin throw | 9 | $281,750 |
| 57 | Shanieka Ricketts | Women's triple jump | 8 | $281,250 |
| 58 | Fred Kerley | three disciplines | 11 | $280,250 |
| 59 | Zuzana Hejnová | Women's 400 m hurdles | 16 | $272,000 |
| 60 | Dafne Schippers | two disciplines | 11 | $271,000 |
| 61 | Dalilah Muhammad | Women's 400 m hurdles | 10 | $270,500 |
| 62 | Sergey Shubenkov | Men's 110 m hurdles | 7 | $268,000 |
| 63 | Laura Muir | five disciplines | 11 | $266,750 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Yaime Pérez is 43rd of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $307,500.
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 Elkasević, Kristin Pudenz, Denia Caballero, Claudine Vita, Valarie Sion and Nadine Müller.
AG Memorial Van Damme 2018 paid $50,000 for 1st in the discus throw, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Andressa de Morais, Sandra Elkasević, Claudine Vita, Gia Lewis-Smallwood, Whitney Ashley 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 Sion, Sandra Elkasević, Claudine Vita, Denia Caballero, Marija Tolj and Subenrat Insaeng.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Yaime Pérez won?
$307,500, which ranks 43rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 41 paid finishes between 2013 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?
Eight of 41, worth $160,000 between them. Six of her appearances came at a final, which paid $124,000.
Is this everything Yaime Pérez 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 Yaime Pérez is Gong Lijiao on $309,000, and one below Conseslus Kipruto on $305,500. Yaime Pérez is one of 43 Cuba athletes athletics has paid, and Cuba athletics prize money adds them up to $2,146,583 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 400 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.