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DIAMOND LEAGUE · 2010 · CHN

Shanghai Diamond League 2010 prize money

The 2010 Shanghai Diamond League paid $436,500 across fifteen disciplines at Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai, 23 May 2010. Fourteen athletes left with the biggest cheque of the day, $10,000 each.

The Diamond League pays by finishing place. One card sets what first through eighth is worth and the same figure applies in every discipline on it, so the tables below are the same ladder fifteen times over. Ninth place pays nothing, however good the field.

MEETING PAID $436,500
A WIN PAID $10,000
DISCIPLINES 15
ATHLETES PAID 117
DATE 23 May

What each place paid

The card in force at the 2010 Shanghai Diamond League

one card
What the Diamond League paid for each finishing place at the 2010 Shanghai Diamond League.
PLACE DIAMOND LEAGUE SHARE
1st $10,000 33.3%
2nd $6,000 20.0%
3rd $4,000 13.3%
4th $3,000 10.0%
5th $2,500 8.3%
6th $2,000 6.7%
7th $1,500 5.0%
8th $1,000 3.3%
All eight $30,000 100%

Where the money sits in a Diamond League field

1st $10k
2nd $6,000
3rd $4,000
4th $3,000
5th $2,500
6th $2,000
7th $1,500
8th $1,000

First place takes 33% of what a discipline pays out and eighth takes 3.3%. That ladder is repeated fifteen times at this meeting and it is the whole of how the Diamond League pays: no appearance money, no record bonus, nothing for ninth. Where athletes tie, they take the places they occupy between them, the money for those places is added up and split equally, and the meeting's total does not move. Three athletes finished level here.

Every discipline

Who won it, and what the win was worth

15 disciplines
Every discipline at the 2010 Shanghai Diamond League, its winner and what the discipline paid out in total.
DISCIPLINE WINNER WIN PAID DISCIPLINE POT
Women's 100 m Carmelita Jeter USA $10,000 $29,000
Men's 110 m hurdles David Oliver USA $10,000 $30,000
Men's 1500 m Augustine Kiprono Choge KEN $10,000 $30,000
Men's 200 m Usain Bolt JAM $10,000 $30,000
Women's 3000 m steeplechase Gladys Jerotich Kipkemoi KEN $10,000 $30,000
Men's 400 m Jeremy Wariner USA $10,000 $30,000
Women's 400 m hurdles Lashinda Demus USA $10,000 $30,000
Women's 5000 m Sentayehu Ejigu ETH $10,000 $30,000
Women's 800 m Janeth Jepkosgei KEN $10,000 $27,500
Men's discus throw Zoltán Kővágó HUN $10,000 $30,000
Men's high jump Sylwester Bednarek POL $10,000 $30,000
Men's long jump Fabrice Lapierre AUS $10,000 $30,000
Men's pole vault Malte Mohr GER $10,000 $30,000
Women's shot put Nadezhda Ostapchuk BLR $0 $20,000
Women's triple jump Olga Rypakova KAZ $10,000 $30,000
15 disciplines 15 winners - $436,500

Every discipline on the same tier pays out the identical amount, so the last column is one figure repeated rather than a ranking. What differs between the rows is who was standing in each place when it was handed over.

Every payment

All 117 cheques the 2010 Shanghai Diamond League wrote

119 finishers
Every athlete paid at the 2010 Shanghai Diamond League, the discipline, the place and the amount.
ATHLETE DISCIPLINE PLACE PAID
Women's 100 m · $29,000
Carmelita Jeter USA 100 m 1st $10,000
Chandra Sturrup BAH 100 m 2nd $6,000
Bianca Knight USA 100 m 3rd $4,000
Me'Lisa Barber USA 100 m 4th $3,000
Schillonie Calvert-Powell JAM 100 m 5th $2,500
Yujia Tao CHN 100 m 6th $2,000
Lan Jiang CHN 100 m 7th $1,500
Men's 110 m hurdles · $30,000
David Oliver USA 110 m hurdles 1st $10,000
Dongpeng Shi CHN 110 m hurdles 2nd $6,000
Xiang Liu CHN 110 m hurdles 3rd $4,000
Wenjun Xie CHN 110 m hurdles 4th $3,000
Allen Johnson USA 110 m hurdles 5th $2,500
Dwight Thomas JAM 110 m hurdles 6th $2,000
Yin Jing CHN 110 m hurdles 7th $1,500
Mike van Kruchten NED 110 m hurdles 8th $1,000
Men's 1500 m · $30,000
Augustine Kiprono Choge KEN 1500 m 1st $10,000
Asbel Kiprop KEN 1500 m 2nd $6,000
Mekonnen Gebremedhin ETH 1500 m 3rd $4,000
Ilham Tanui Özbilen KEN 1500 m 4th $3,000
Geoffrey Kipkoech Rono KEN 1500 m 5th $2,500
Suleiman Kipses Simotwo KEN 1500 m 6th $2,000
Nixon Kiplimo Chepseba KEN 1500 m 7th $1,500
Haron Keitany KEN 1500 m 8th $1,000
Men's 200 m · $30,000
Usain Bolt JAM 200 m 1st $10,000
Angelo Taylor USA 200 m 2nd $6,000
Ryan Bailey USA 200 m 3rd $4,000
Marvin Anderson JAM 200 m 4th $3,000
Churandy Martina AHO 200 m 5th $2,500
Ronald Pognon FRA 200 m 6th $2,000
Shinji Takahira JPN 200 m 7th $1,500
Peimeng Zhang CHN 200 m 8th $1,000
Women's 3000 m steeplechase · $30,000
Gladys Jerotich Kipkemoi KEN 3000 m steeplechase 1st $10,000
Milcah Chemos KEN 3000 m steeplechase 2nd $6,000
Lydia Chebet Rotich KEN 3000 m steeplechase 3rd $4,000
Katarzyna Kowalska POL 3000 m steeplechase 4th $3,000
Sofia Assefa ETH 3000 m steeplechase 5th $2,500
Ancuţa Bobocel ROU 3000 m steeplechase 6th $2,000
Lisa Aguilera USA 3000 m steeplechase 7th $1,500
Elizabeth Mueni KEN 3000 m steeplechase 8th $1,000
Men's 400 m · $30,000
Jeremy Wariner USA 400 m 1st $10,000
David Neville USA 400 m 2nd $6,000
Michael Bingham GBR 400 m 3rd $4,000
Gary Kikaya COD 400 m 4th $3,000
Ben Offereins AUS 400 m 5th $2,500
Leslie Djhone FRA 400 m 6th $2,000
Xiaosheng Liu CHN 400 m 7th $1,500
Johan Wissman SWE 400 m 8th $1,000
Women's 400 m hurdles · $30,000
Lashinda Demus USA 400 m hurdles 1st $10,000
Natalya Antyukh RUS 400 m hurdles 2nd $6,000
Anna Jesień POL 400 m hurdles 3rd $4,000
Anastasiya Rabchenyuk UKR 400 m hurdles 4th $3,000
Melaine Walker JAM 400 m hurdles 5th $2,500
Kaliese Carter JAM 400 m hurdles 6th $2,000
Satomi Kubokura JPN 400 m hurdles 7th $1,500
Sheena Johnson-Tosta USA 400 m hurdles 8th $1,000
Women's 5000 m · $30,000
Sentayehu Ejigu ETH 5000 m 1st $10,000
Linet Chepkwemoi Masai KEN 5000 m 2nd $6,000
Meselech Melkamu ETH 5000 m 3rd $4,000
Sylvia Jebiwot Kibet KEN 5000 m 4th $3,000
Sule Utura ETH 5000 m 5th $2,500
Emebet Anteneh ETH 5000 m 6th $2,000
Mercy Cherono KEN 5000 m 7th $1,500
Viola Jelagat Kibiwot KEN 5000 m 8th $1,000
Women's 800 m · $27,500
Janeth Jepkosgei KEN 800 m 1st $10,000
Jennifer Meadows GBR 800 m 2nd $6,000
Kenia Sinclair JAM 800 m 3rd $4,000
Angelika Cichocka POL 800 m 4th $3,000
Tetyana Petlyuk UKR 800 m 5th annulled -
Renata Pliś POL 800 m 6th $2,000
Pamela Jelimo KEN 800 m 7th $1,500
Li Yong CHN 800 m 8th $1,000
Men's discus throw · $30,000
Zoltán Kővágó HUN Discus throw 1st $10,000
Robert Harting GER Discus throw 2nd $6,000
Piotr Małachowski POL Discus throw 3rd $4,000
Gerd Kanter EST Discus throw 4th $3,000
Ehsan Hadadi IRI Discus throw 5th $2,500
Jason Young USA Discus throw 6th $2,000
Jarred Rome USA Discus throw 7th $1,500
Ian Waltz USA Discus throw 8th $1,000
Men's high jump · $30,000
Sylwester Bednarek POL High jump 1st $10,000
Jesse Williams USA High jump 2nd $6,000
Linus Thörnblad SWE High jump 3rd $4,000
Jaroslav Bába CZE High jump 4th $3,000
Tora Harris USA High jump 5th $2,500
Andrey Tereshin RUS High jump =6th shared three ways $1,500
Wang Chen CHN High jump =6th shared three ways $1,500
Martijn Nuijens NED High jump =6th shared three ways $1,500
Men's long jump · $30,000
Fabrice Lapierre AUS Long jump 1st $10,000
Dwight Phillips USA Long jump 2nd $6,000
Xiongfeng Su CHN Long jump 3rd $4,000
Ignisious Gaisah GHA Long jump 4th $3,000
Brian Johnson USA Long jump 5th $2,500
Chris Noffke AUS Long jump 6th $2,000
Andriy Makarchev UKR Long jump 7th $1,500
Zhenwei Yu CHN Long jump 8th $1,000
Men's pole vault · $30,000
Malte Mohr GER Pole vault 1st $10,000
Aleksandr Gripich RUS Pole vault 2nd $6,000
Maksym Mazuryk UKR Pole vault 3rd $4,000
Hendrik Gruber GER Pole vault 4th $3,000
Yansheng Yang CHN Pole vault 5th $2,500
Steven Hooker AUS Pole vault 6th $2,000
Steven Lewis GBR Pole vault 7th $1,500
Jeremy Scott USA Pole vault 8th $1,000
Women's shot put · $20,000
Nadezhda Ostapchuk BLR Shot put 1st annulled -
Valerie Adams NZL Shot put 2nd $6,000
Lijiao Gong CHN Shot put 3rd $4,000
Michelle Carter USA Shot put 4th $3,000
Jillian Camarena-Williams USA Shot put 5th $2,500
Xiangrong Liu CHN Shot put 6th $2,000
Nadine Kleinert GER Shot put 7th $1,500
Misleydis González CUB Shot put 8th $1,000
Women's triple jump · $30,000
Olga Rypakova KAZ Triple jump 1st $10,000
Yargelis Savigne CUB Triple jump 2nd $6,000
Anna Pyatykh RUS Triple jump 3rd $4,000
Nadezhda Alyokhina RUS Triple jump 4th $3,000
Gisele Lima de Oliveira BRA Triple jump 5th $2,500
Yanan Liu CHN Triple jump 6th $2,000
Limei Xie CHN Triple jump 7th $1,500
Trecia Kaye Smith JAM Triple jump 8th $1,000

117 payments to 117 athletes, because nobody was paid twice. The money went to 29 countries. Ninth place and below is in the result tables and paid nothing, so it is not here.

Who left with the most

The 2010 Shanghai Diamond League money list

117 paid
# ATHLETE BEST OF IT PAID HERE
1 Augustine Kiprono Choge KEN 1st 1500 m $10,000
2 Carmelita Jeter USA 1st 100 m $10,000
3 David Oliver USA 1st 110 m hurdles $10,000
4 Fabrice Lapierre AUS 1st long jump $10,000
5 Gladys Jerotich Kipkemoi KEN 1st 3000 m steeplechase $10,000
6 Janeth Jepkosgei KEN 1st 800 m $10,000
7 Jeremy Wariner USA 1st 400 m $10,000
8 Lashinda Demus USA 1st 400 m hurdles $10,000
9 Malte Mohr GER 1st pole vault $10,000
10 Olga Rypakova KAZ 1st triple jump $10,000
11 Sentayehu Ejigu ETH 1st 5000 m $10,000
12 Sylwester Bednarek POL 1st high jump $10,000
13 Usain Bolt JAM 1st 200 m $10,000
14 Zoltán Kővágó HUN 1st discus throw $10,000
15 Aleksandr Gripich RUS 2nd pole vault $6,000
16 Angelo Taylor USA 2nd 200 m $6,000
17 Asbel Kiprop KEN 2nd 1500 m $6,000
18 Chandra Sturrup BAH 2nd 100 m $6,000
19 David Neville USA 2nd 400 m $6,000
20 Dongpeng Shi CHN 2nd 110 m hurdles $6,000
21 Dwight Phillips USA 2nd long jump $6,000
22 Jennifer Meadows GBR 2nd 800 m $6,000
23 Jesse Williams USA 2nd high jump $6,000
24 Linet Chepkwemoi Masai KEN 2nd 5000 m $6,000
25 Milcah Chemos KEN 2nd 3000 m steeplechase $6,000
26 Natalya Antyukh RUS 2nd 400 m hurdles $6,000
27 Robert Harting GER 2nd discus throw $6,000
28 Valerie Adams NZL 2nd shot put $6,000
29 Yargelis Savigne CUB 2nd triple jump $6,000
30 Anna Jesień POL 3rd 400 m hurdles $4,000
Augustine Kiprono Choge $10k Carmelita Jeter $10k David Oliver $10k Fabrice Lapierre $10k Gladys Jerotich Kipkemoi $10k Janeth Jepkosgei $10k Jeremy Wariner $10k Lashinda Demus $10k Malte Mohr $10k Olga Rypakova $10k Sentayehu Ejigu $10k Sylwester Bednarek $10k Usain Bolt $10k Zoltán Kővágó $10k Aleksandr Gripich $6,000

Augustine Kiprono Choge took $10,000 of the $436,500 this meeting paid out. The table lists the 30 biggest of 117; every one of them is in the payment table above.

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money did the 2010 Shanghai Diamond League pay?

$436,500 in all, across fifteen disciplines. Every discipline paid the same $29,000, because the series applies one card to all of them.

What did winning at the 2010 Shanghai Diamond League pay?

$10,000. That is 33% of what the discipline pays out in total, and it is the same figure whether the win came in the 100 m or the javelin.

How far down the field does the Diamond League pay?

Eight places, and ninth pays nothing. 119 athletes finished a discipline at this meeting and 117 of them were paid, so 2 were in a result table here for nothing.

Who earned the most at the 2010 Shanghai Diamond League?

Fourteen athletes tied at the top on $10,000 each, because the series pays by finishing place and by nothing else: a win in the shot put is worth exactly what a win in the 100 m is. Every athlete paid here was paid once, because nobody doubled up.

How is a tie paid at the Diamond League?

The tied athletes take the places they occupy and the money for all of those places is added up and split equally. Three athletes finished level at this meeting, which is why three figures in the tables below are not round numbers off the card. The meeting's total is unchanged either way.

Is the Shanghai Diamond League worth more than a normal Diamond League meeting?

No. It is a series meeting and it pays the series card, which is the same card every other series meeting of 2010 paid. The final is the one that pays more.

Where to next

The rest of the Diamond League money

The 2010 Diamond League ran fourteen meetings and paid $6,553,000, and Diamond League prize money covers all 224 meetings on this site and the $113,397,000 they paid between them. Shanghai Diamond League has its own page across every edition of it, and the other twelve are 2026, 2025, 2024, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011.

The meetings either side of this one