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DIAMOND LEAGUE · 2011 · BELGIUM

Memorial van Damme 2011 prize money

The 2011 Memorial van Damme paid $455,000 across sixteen disciplines at King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, 16 September 2011. Fifteen 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 sixteen times over. Ninth place pays nothing, however good the field.

MEETING PAID $455,000
A WIN PAID $10,000
DISCIPLINES 16
ATHLETES PAID 121
DATE 16 September

What each place paid

The card in force at the 2011 Memorial van Damme

one card
What the Diamond League paid for each finishing place at the 2011 Memorial van Damme.
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 sixteen times at this meeting and it is the whole of how the Diamond League pays: no appearance money, no record bonus, nothing for ninth.

Every discipline

Who won it, and what the win was worth

16 disciplines
Every discipline at the 2011 Memorial van Damme, 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 $30,000
Women's 100 m hurdles Danielle Carruthers USA $10,000 $30,000
Women's 1500 m Morgan Uceny USA $10,000 $30,000
Men's 200 m Yohan Blake JAM $10,000 $30,000
Women's 3000 m steeplechase Yuliya Zaripova RUS $0 $20,000
Women's 400 m Amantle Montsho BOT $10,000 $24,500
Men's 400 m hurdles Javier Culson PUR $10,000 $30,000
Men's 5000 m Imane Merga ETH $10,000 $30,000
Men's 800 m David Rudisha KEN $10,000 $30,000
Women's discus throw Yanfeng Li CHN $10,000 $30,000
Women's high jump Anna Chicherova RUS $10,000 $24,000
Men's javelin throw Matthias de Zordo GER $10,000 $30,000
Men's pole vault Konstantinos Filippidis GRE $10,000 $30,000
Men's shot put Reese Hoffa USA $10,000 $29,000
Men's triple jump Benjamin Compaoré FRA $10,000 $27,500
Women's triple jump Olha Saladukha UKR $10,000 $30,000
16 disciplines 16 winners - $455,000

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 121 cheques the 2011 Memorial van Damme wrote

125 finishers
Every athlete paid at the 2011 Memorial van Damme, the discipline, the place and the amount.
ATHLETE DISCIPLINE PLACE PAID
Women's 100 m · $30,000
Carmelita Jeter USA 100 m 1st $10,000
Veronica Campbell-Brown JAM 100 m 2nd $6,000
Kelly-Ann Baptiste TTO 100 m 3rd $4,000
Shalonda Solomon USA 100 m 4th $3,000
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie BAH 100 m 5th $2,500
Ezinne Okparaebo NOR 100 m 6th $2,000
Mikele Barber USA 100 m 7th $1,500
Mariya Ryemyen UKR 100 m 8th $1,000
Women's 100 m hurdles · $30,000
Danielle Carruthers USA 100 m hurdles 1st $10,000
Yvette Lewis USA 100 m hurdles 2nd $6,000
Kellie Wells USA 100 m hurdles 3rd $4,000
Nia Ali USA 100 m hurdles 4th $3,000
Brigitte Ann Foster-Hylton JAM 100 m hurdles 5th $2,500
Phylicia George CAN 100 m hurdles 6th $2,000
Nikkita Holder CAN 100 m hurdles 7th $1,500
Anne Zagré BEL 100 m hurdles 8th $1,000
Women's 1500 m · $30,000
Morgan Uceny USA 1500 m 1st $10,000
Mariem Alaoui Selsouli MAR 1500 m 2nd $6,000
Maryam Yusuf Jamal BRN 1500 m 3rd $4,000
Anna Mishchenko UKR 1500 m 4th $3,000
Hannah England GBR 1500 m 5th $2,500
Janeth Jepkosgei KEN 1500 m 6th $2,000
Hellen Obiri KEN 1500 m 7th $1,500
Natalia Rodríguez ESP 1500 m 8th $1,000
Men's 200 m · $30,000
Yohan Blake JAM 200 m 1st $10,000
Walter Dix USA 200 m 2nd $6,000
Nickel Ashmeade JAM 200 m 3rd $4,000
Jaysuma Saidy Ndure NOR 200 m 4th $3,000
Rondel Sorrillo TTO 200 m 5th $2,500
Ainsley Waugh JAM 200 m 6th $2,000
Jonathan Åstrand FIN 200 m 7th $1,500
Rytis Sakalauskas LTU 200 m 8th $1,000
Women's 3000 m steeplechase · $20,000
Yuliya Zaripova RUS 3000 m steeplechase 1st annulled -
Habiba Ghribi TUN 3000 m steeplechase 2nd $6,000
Mercy Wanjiku Njoroge KEN 3000 m steeplechase 3rd $4,000
Sofia Assefa ETH 3000 m steeplechase 4th $3,000
Milcah Chemos KEN 3000 m steeplechase 5th $2,500
Hiwot Ayalew ETH 3000 m steeplechase 6th $2,000
Mekdes Bekele ETH 3000 m steeplechase 7th $1,500
Lydia Chebet Rotich KEN 3000 m steeplechase 8th $1,000
Women's 400 m · $24,500
Amantle Montsho BOT 400 m 1st $10,000
Novlene Williams-Mills JAM 400 m 2nd $6,000
Tatyana Firova RUS 400 m 3rd annulled -
Antonina Krivoshapka RUS 400 m 4th $3,000
Christine Ohuruogu GBR 400 m 5th $2,500
Davita Prendergast JAM 400 m 6th $2,000
Antonina Yefremova UKR 400 m 7th annulled -
Muriel Hurtis FRA 400 m 8th $1,000
Men's 400 m hurdles · $30,000
Javier Culson PUR 400 m hurdles 1st $10,000
David Greene GBR 400 m hurdles 2nd $6,000
Cornel Fredericks RSA 400 m hurdles 3rd $4,000
Jehue Gordon TTO 400 m hurdles 4th $3,000
Félix Sánchez DOM 400 m hurdles 5th $2,500
Georg Fleischhauer GER 400 m hurdles 6th $2,000
Isa Phillips JAM 400 m hurdles 7th $1,500
Aleksandr Derevyagin RUS 400 m hurdles 8th $1,000
Men's 5000 m · $30,000
Imane Merga ETH 5000 m 1st $10,000
Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa KEN 5000 m 2nd $6,000
Vincent Kiprop Chepkok KEN 5000 m 3rd $4,000
Tariku Bekele ETH 5000 m 4th $3,000
Alistair Ian Cragg IRL 5000 m 5th $2,500
Albert Rop KEN 5000 m 6th $2,000
Polat Kemboi Arikan TUR 5000 m 7th $1,500
Patrick Mutunga Mwikya KEN 5000 m 8th $1,000
Men's 800 m · $30,000
David Rudisha KEN 800 m 1st $10,000
Mohammed Aman ETH 800 m 2nd $6,000
Asbel Kiprop KEN 800 m 3rd $4,000
Marcin Lewandowski POL 800 m 4th $3,000
Alfred Kirwa Yego KEN 800 m 5th $2,500
Andreas Bube DEN 800 m 6th $2,000
Jackson Mumbwa Kivuva KEN 800 m 7th $1,500
Bram Som NED 800 m 8th $1,000
Women's discus throw · $30,000
Yanfeng Li CHN Discus throw 1st $10,000
Yarelis Barrios CUB Discus throw 2nd $6,000
Żaneta Glanc POL Discus throw 3rd $4,000
Tan Jian CHN Discus throw 4th $3,000
Stephanie Brown-Trafton USA Discus throw 5th $2,500
Nadine Müller GER Discus throw 6th $2,000
Aretha D. Thurmond USA Discus throw 7th $1,500
Kateryna Karsak UKR Discus throw 8th $1,000
Women's high jump · $24,000
Anna Chicherova RUS High jump 1st $10,000
Yelena Slesarenko RUS High jump 2nd annulled -
Ebba Jungmark SWE High jump 3rd $4,000
Svetlana Shkolina RUS High jump 4th $3,000
Blanka Vlašić CRO High jump 5th $2,500
Antonietta di Martino ITA High jump 6th $2,000
Mélanie Melfort FRA High jump 7th $1,500
Oksana Okuneva UKR High jump 8th $1,000
Men's javelin throw · $30,000
Matthias de Zordo GER Javelin throw 1st $10,000
Vadims Vasiļevskis LAT Javelin throw 2nd $6,000
Fatih Avan TUR Javelin throw 3rd $4,000
Vítězslav Veselý CZE Javelin throw 4th $3,000
Andreas Thorkildsen NOR Javelin throw 5th $2,500
Roman Avramenko UKR Javelin throw 6th $2,000
Ari Mannio FIN Javelin throw 7th $1,500
Dmitriy Tarabin RUS Javelin throw 8th $1,000
Men's pole vault · $30,000
Konstantinos Filippidis GRE Pole vault 1st $10,000
Renaud Lavillenie FRA Pole vault 2nd $6,000
Malte Mohr GER Pole vault 3rd $4,000
Dmitriy Starodubtsev RUS Pole vault 4th $3,000
Mateusz Didenkow POL Pole vault 5th $2,500
Romain Mesnil FRA Pole vault 6th $2,000
Björn Otto GER Pole vault 7th $1,500
Łukasz Michalski POL Pole vault 8th $1,000
Men's shot put · $29,000
Reese Hoffa USA Shot put 1st $10,000
Christian Cantwell USA Shot put 2nd $6,000
Dylan Armstrong CAN Shot put 3rd $4,000
Ryan Whiting USA Shot put 4th $3,000
Tomasz Majewski POL Shot put 5th $2,500
Marco Fortes POR Shot put 6th $2,000
Pavel Lyzhyn BLR Shot put 7th $1,500
Men's triple jump · $27,500
Benjamin Compaoré FRA Triple jump 1st $10,000
Seref Osmanoglu UKR Triple jump 2nd $6,000
Alexis Copello CUB Triple jump 3rd $4,000
Fabrizio Schembri ITA Triple jump 4th $3,000
Phillips Idowu GBR Triple jump 5th $2,500
Gaetan Saku Bafuanga FRA Triple jump 6th $2,000
Women's triple jump · $30,000
Olha Saladukha UKR Triple jump 1st $10,000
Mabel Gay CUB Triple jump 2nd $6,000
Olga Rypakova KAZ Triple jump 3rd $4,000
Yamilé Aldama GBR Triple jump 4th $3,000
Simona la Mantia ITA Triple jump 5th $2,500
Dana Velďáková SVK Triple jump 6th $2,000
Anna Krylova RUS Triple jump 7th $1,500
Małgorzata Trybańska POL Triple jump 8th $1,000

121 payments to 121 athletes, because nobody was paid twice. The money went to 41 countries. Ninth place and below is in the result tables and paid nothing, so it is not here.

Who left with the most

The 2011 Memorial van Damme money list

121 paid
# ATHLETE BEST OF IT PAID HERE
1 Amantle Montsho BOT 1st 400 m $10,000
2 Anna Chicherova RUS 1st high jump $10,000
3 Benjamin Compaoré FRA 1st triple jump $10,000
4 Carmelita Jeter USA 1st 100 m $10,000
5 Danielle Carruthers USA 1st 100 m hurdles $10,000
6 David Rudisha KEN 1st 800 m $10,000
7 Imane Merga ETH 1st 5000 m $10,000
8 Javier Culson PUR 1st 400 m hurdles $10,000
9 Konstantinos Filippidis GRE 1st pole vault $10,000
10 Matthias de Zordo GER 1st javelin throw $10,000
11 Morgan Uceny USA 1st 1500 m $10,000
12 Olha Saladukha UKR 1st triple jump $10,000
13 Reese Hoffa USA 1st shot put $10,000
14 Yanfeng Li CHN 1st discus throw $10,000
15 Yohan Blake JAM 1st 200 m $10,000
16 Christian Cantwell USA 2nd shot put $6,000
17 David Greene GBR 2nd 400 m hurdles $6,000
18 Habiba Ghribi TUN 2nd 3000 m steeplechase $6,000
19 Mabel Gay CUB 2nd triple jump $6,000
20 Mariem Alaoui Selsouli MAR 2nd 1500 m $6,000
21 Mohammed Aman ETH 2nd 800 m $6,000
22 Novlene Williams-Mills JAM 2nd 400 m $6,000
23 Renaud Lavillenie FRA 2nd pole vault $6,000
24 Seref Osmanoglu TUR 2nd triple jump $6,000
25 Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa KEN 2nd 5000 m $6,000
26 Vadims Vasiļevskis LAT 2nd javelin throw $6,000
27 Veronica Campbell Brown JAM 2nd 100 m $6,000
28 Walter Dix USA 2nd 200 m $6,000
29 Yarelis Barrios CUB 2nd discus throw $6,000
30 Yvette Lewis PAN 2nd 100 m hurdles $6,000
Amantle Montsho $10k Anna Chicherova $10k Benjamin Compaoré $10k Carmelita Jeter $10k Danielle Carruthers $10k David Rudisha $10k Imane Merga $10k Javier Culson $10k Konstantinos Filippidis $10k Matthias de Zordo $10k Morgan Uceny $10k Olha Saladukha $10k Reese Hoffa $10k Yanfeng Li $10k Yohan Blake $10k

Amantle Montsho took $10,000 of the $455,000 this meeting paid out. The table lists the 30 biggest of 121; every one of them is in the payment table above.

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money did the 2011 Memorial van Damme pay?

$455,000 in all, across sixteen disciplines. Every discipline paid the same $30,000, because the series applies one card to all of them.

What did winning at the 2011 Memorial van Damme 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. 125 athletes finished a discipline at this meeting and 121 of them were paid, so 4 were in a result table here for nothing.

Who earned the most at the 2011 Memorial van Damme?

Fifteen 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.

Is the Memorial van Damme 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 2011 paid. The final is the one that pays more.

Where to next

The rest of the Diamond League money

The 2011 Diamond League ran fourteen meetings and paid $6,550,500, and Diamond League prize money covers all 224 meetings on this site and the $113,397,000 they paid between them. Memorial van Damme has its own page across every edition of it, and the other fifteen are 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2010.

The meetings either side of this one