Yelena Isinbayeva prize money
Yelena Isinbayeva has been paid $23,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1047th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from three paid finishes in the women's pole vault, two 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
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Grand Prix 2013 | Pole vault | 1st | $10,000 |
| DN Galan 2011 | Pole vault | 1st | $10,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2011 | Pole vault | =3rd | $3,500 |
| All three | Women's pole vault | - | $23,500 |
The three paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $23,500 is three separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.02% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
Season by season
2011 to 2013, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | DN Galan | $13,500 |
| 2012 | - | - | - | - |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | Golden Grand Prix | $10,000 |
season running total
2011 is the biggest of them, $13,500 from two starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Yelena Isinbayeva in 2012, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $23,500.
Around Yelena Isinbayeva on the money list
Ranks 1027 to 1067
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1027 | Louis Tsatoumas | Men's long jump | 1 | $24,000 |
| 1028 | Machel Cedenio | Men's 400 m | 1 | $24,000 |
| 1029 | Maria Andrejczyk | Women's javelin throw | - | $24,000 |
| 1030 | Mohamed Amin Jhinaoui | two disciplines | - | $24,000 |
| 1031 | Nadezhda Alyokhina | Women's triple jump | 1 | $24,000 |
| 1032 | Olivia McTaggart | Women's pole vault | 1 | $24,000 |
| 1033 | Tihomir Ivanov | Men's high jump | - | $23,958 |
| 1034 | Jean-Marc Pontvianne | Men's triple jump | - | $23,750 |
| 1035 | Li Ling | two disciplines | - | $23,750 |
| 1036 | Thierry Ndikumwenayo | two disciplines | 1 | $23,750 |
| 1037 | Anastasiya Savchenko | Women's pole vault | 1 | $23,500 |
| 1038 | Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir | Women's javelin throw | - | $23,500 |
| 1039 | Bralon Taplin | Men's 400 m | - | $23,500 |
| 1040 | Britany Anderson | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $23,500 |
| 1041 | Chanelle Price | Women's 800 m | - | $23,500 |
| 1042 | Duane Solomon | Men's 800 m | 1 | $23,500 |
| 1043 | Erica Jarder | Women's long jump | - | $23,500 |
| 1044 | George Mills | four disciplines | - | $23,500 |
| 1045 | Henrik Ingebrigtsen | four disciplines | - | $23,500 |
| 1046 | Ryan Gregson | two disciplines | - | $23,500 |
| 1047 | Yelena Isinbayeva | Women's pole vault | 2 | $23,500 |
| 1048 | Nadiya Dusanova | Women's high jump | - | $23,333 |
| 1049 | Agate de Sousa | Women's long jump | - | $23,000 |
| 1050 | Alessandro Sibilio | Men's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $23,000 |
| 1051 | Carina Horn | Women's 100 m | - | $23,000 |
| 1052 | Changrui Xue | Men's pole vault | - | $23,000 |
| 1053 | Ernesto Revé | Men's triple jump | - | $23,000 |
| 1054 | Fabrizio Donato | Men's triple jump | 1 | $23,000 |
| 1055 | Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye | two disciplines | 1 | $23,000 |
| 1056 | Isabelle Pedersen | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $23,000 |
| 1057 | Jakub Holuša | two disciplines | - | $23,000 |
| 1058 | Jeremiah Azu | Men's 100 m | - | $23,000 |
| 1059 | Marco Fortes | Men's shot put | - | $23,000 |
| 1060 | Marina Arzamasova | Women's 800 m | - | $23,000 |
| 1061 | Marthe Koala | Women's long jump | 1 | $23,000 |
| 1062 | Michael Rimmer | Men's 800 m | - | $23,000 |
| 1063 | Rose Mary Almanza | Women's 800 m | 1 | $23,000 |
| 1064 | Stuart Farquhar | Men's javelin throw | - | $23,000 |
| 1065 | Tori Peeters | Women's javelin throw | - | $23,000 |
| 1066 | Kuma Girma | three disciplines | - | $22,750 |
| 1067 | Maksim Nedasekau | Men's high jump | - | $22,750 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Yelena Isinbayeva is 1047th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $23,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Yelena Isinbayeva most
Golden Grand Prix 2013 paid $10,000 for 1st in the pole vault, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Mary Saxer, Silke Spiegelburg, Li Ling, Lacy Janson, Anastasiya Savchenko and Angelica Bengtsson.
DN Galan 2011 paid $10,000 for 1st in the pole vault, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Silke Spiegelburg, Jenn Suhr, Svetlana Feofanova, Fabiana Murer, Martina Strutz and Monika Pyrek.
Weltklasse Zürich 2011 paid $3,500 for =3rd in the pole vault, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Yarisley Silva, Svetlana Feofanova, Anna Rogowska, Nicole Büchler, Jenn Suhr and Silke Spiegelburg.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Yelena Isinbayeva won?
$23,500, which ranks 1047th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from three paid finishes between 2011 and 2013.
What is Yelena Isinbayeva's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the pole vault at the 2013 Golden Grand Prix. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 1st and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Yelena Isinbayeva 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 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.
How many Diamond League meetings has Yelena Isinbayeva won?
Two of three, worth $20,000 between them. She has not been paid at a Diamond League final.
Is this everything Yelena Isinbayeva 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 Yelena Isinbayeva is Ryan Gregson on $23,500, and one below Nadiya Dusanova on $23,333. Yelena Isinbayeva is one of 84 RUS athletes athletics has paid, and RUS athletics prize money adds them up to $1,249,167 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's pole vault prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Yelena Isinbayeva 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 Golden Grand Prix has its own page across every edition of it.