Zharnel Hughes prize money
Zharnel Hughes has been paid $95,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 336th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 21 paid finishes in the men's 200 m and men's 100 m, 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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
The 21 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $95,500 is 21 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.08% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The World Championships
What Zharnel Hughes did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 200 metres | 5th | 19.78 | $11,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Zharnel Hughes $11,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $95,500 from 21 Diamond League starts between 2015 and 2026. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The World Athletics Relays
What Zharnel Hughes ran on
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 4 × 100 metres relay | - | DNF | - |
Zharnel Hughes stood in one World Relays final and the team was paid for it. The ladder reaches all eight teams in a final, $40,000 for a title down to $2,000 for 8th, so the only way past it is not to finish: a dropped baton or a disqualification leaves the rung empty and the meeting keeps the money. He ran alongside Jeremiah Azu, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and Romell Glave, and the Diamond League has paid every one of them too. The World Relays page holds all 12 finals across two championships and the $1,067,000 they paid out.
The Olympic Games
What Zharnel Hughes won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Men's 4 × 100 metres relay | Bronze | - |
The bronze in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay paid nothing. Only a gold pays, so 97 of the 145 medals awarded on the athletics programme in Paris carried no money at all. The Olympic page holds all 48 golds, the $2,400,000 they paid and what the circuit pays the same champions.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Zharnel Hughes
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 200 m | 10 | 2 | 2015 to 2026 | $48,000 |
| Men's 100 m | 11 | - | 2018 to 2026 | $47,500 |
The men's 200 m has paid Zharnel Hughes $48,000 of the $95,500, which is 50% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2015 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | Athletissima | $20,000 |
| 2016 | - | - | - | - |
| 2017 | 3 | - | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $10,500 |
| 2018 | 2 | - | Müller Anniversary Games | $8,500 |
| 2019 | 3 | - | Müller Anniversary Games | $14,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 1 | - | Anniversary Games | $3,500 |
| 2022 | - | - | - | - |
| 2023 | 3 | - | Memorial Van Damme | $13,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | - | London Athletics Meet | $1,000 |
| 2025 | 3 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $19,000 |
| 2026 | 3 | - | Athletissima | $6,000 |
season running total
2015 is the biggest of them, $20,000 from two starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Zharnel Hughes in 2016, 2020 and 2022, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $95,500.
Around Zharnel Hughes on the money list
Ranks 316 to 356
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 316 | Alexander Ogando | two disciplines | 2 | $101,250 |
| 317 | Ezekiel Kemboi | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 7 | $101,000 |
| 318 | Kamila Lićwinko | Women's high jump | 2 | $101,000 |
| 319 | Trey Cunningham | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $100,750 |
| 320 | Holly Bradshaw | Women's pole vault | - | $100,083 |
| 321 | Teddy Tamgho | Men's triple jump | 6 | $99,500 |
| 322 | Lieke Klaver | Women's 400 m | - | $98,750 |
| 323 | Fabrice Lapierre | Men's long jump | 2 | $98,000 |
| 324 | Juan Miguel Echevarría | Men's long jump | 4 | $98,000 |
| 325 | Gia Lewis-Smallwood | Women's discus throw | 1 | $97,500 |
| 326 | Adriana Vilagoš | Women's javelin throw | 2 | $97,250 |
| 327 | Donald Thomas | Men's high jump | 1 | $97,208 |
| 328 | Feng Bin | Women's discus throw | 3 | $97,000 |
| 329 | Kellie Wells | Women's 100 m hurdles | 2 | $97,000 |
| 330 | Tyson Gay | two disciplines | 8 | $97,000 |
| 331 | Chris Nilsen | Men's pole vault | 2 | $96,750 |
| 332 | Emma Zapletalová | Women's 400 m hurdles | 5 | $96,500 |
| 333 | Joshua Cheptegei | three disciplines | 2 | $96,500 |
| 334 | Shannon Rowbury | four disciplines | 2 | $96,500 |
| 335 | Julius Yego | Men's javelin throw | 2 | $96,000 |
| 336 | Zharnel Hughes | two disciplines | 2 | $95,500 |
| 337 | Mujinga Kambundji | two disciplines | 1 | $95,250 |
| 338 | Ronald Levy | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $94,750 |
| 339 | Cleopatra Borel | Women's shot put | - | $94,500 |
| 340 | Yargelis Savigne | two disciplines | 7 | $94,500 |
| 341 | Jorinde van Klinken | two disciplines | 1 | $94,000 |
| 342 | Lamecha Girma | five disciplines | 6 | $94,000 |
| 343 | Sanya Richards-Ross | two disciplines | 5 | $93,500 |
| 344 | Luguelín Santos | Men's 400 m | 1 | $93,000 |
| 345 | Amy Hunt | two disciplines | - | $92,500 |
| 346 | Christophe Lemaitre | two disciplines | 1 | $92,500 |
| 347 | Chaunte Lowe | Women's high jump | 5 | $92,000 |
| 348 | Berihu Aregawi | three disciplines | 4 | $91,750 |
| 349 | Peruth Chemutai | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $91,750 |
| 350 | L. J. van Zyl | Men's 400 m hurdles | 2 | $91,500 |
| 351 | Niels Laros | three disciplines | 3 | $91,000 |
| 352 | Nelly Chepchirchir | two disciplines | 4 | $90,750 |
| 353 | Levern Spencer | Women's high jump | 1 | $90,508 |
| 354 | Jake Wightman | four disciplines | 4 | $90,250 |
| 355 | Jeremy Wariner | Men's 400 m | 7 | $90,000 |
| 356 | Ameer Webb | two disciplines | 3 | $89,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Zharnel Hughes is 336th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $95,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Zharnel Hughes most
Prefontaine Classic 2025 paid $10,000 for 2nd in the 100 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Trayvon Bromell, Brandon Hicklin, Ackeem Blake, Bayanda Walaza, Christian Coleman and Lachlan Kennedy.
Athletissima 2015 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 200 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Anaso Jobodwana, Isiah Young, Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas, Alonso Edward, Churandy Martina and Ameer Webb.
Sainsburys Anniversary Games 2015 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 200 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Dedric Dukes, Anaso Jobodwana, Nickel Ashmeade, Julian Forte, Daniel Talbot and Curtis Mitchell.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Zharnel Hughes won?
$95,500, which ranks 336th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 21 paid finishes between 2015 and 2026.
What is Zharnel Hughes's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 2nd in the Diamond+ 100 m at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic. 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 Zharnel Hughes 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 win is worth the same in the men's 200 m 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 Zharnel Hughes won?
Two of 21, worth $20,000 between them. Two of his appearances came at a final, which paid $8,000.
How much did Zharnel Hughes win at the 2025 World Championships?
$11,000, from one paid final in Tokyo. The championships pay eight places in every event, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th.
Is this everything Zharnel Hughes earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Championships money above is separate money from a separate payer, and none of it is added together here. It holds 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 3,683 athletes across the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Zharnel Hughes is Julius Yego on $96,000, and one below Mujinga Kambundji on $95,250. Zharnel Hughes is one of 249 Great Britain athletes athletics has paid, and Great Britain athletics prize money adds them up to $6,351,625 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 200 m prize money and men's 100 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Zharnel Hughes has been paid in two of them. The biggest of the rest are men's pole vault, men's 800 m and men's 110 m hurdles. Every meeting he has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Athletissima has its own page across every edition of it. Away from the series, World Championships prize money is Tokyo 2025, $8,498,000 paid eight places deep in every event, and the full final is on the men's 200 metres page. World Relays prize money is the Guangzhou 2025 and Gaborone 2026 championships, $1,087,000 put up across 12 finals that pay a team and never a runner, and the relay is on the men's 4 × 100 metres relay page.