Diamond League 2014 prize money
The 2014 Diamond League paid $6,576,500 to 650 athletes across fourteen meetings, from 09 May to 05 September. Christian Taylor took more of it than anyone, $71,500.
The series pays by finishing place and by nothing else, so one card covers every discipline at every meeting of the season: $10,000 for a series win, at the final, and eight places paid in each. There was no Diamond+ tier this season, so every discipline paid the same.
Who earned the most in 2014
The 2014 Diamond League money list
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | BIGGEST DAY | EARNED |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christian Taylor | 12 | 3 | 1st | $71,500 |
| 2 | Valerie Adams | 7 | 7 | 1st | $70,000 |
| 3 | Kaliese Carter | 8 | 6 | 1st | $67,500 |
| 4 | Sandra Elkasević | 7 | 6 | 1st | $66,000 |
| 5 | Jairus Kipchoge Birech | 7 | 6 | 1st | $63,000 |
| 6 | Caterine Ibargüen | 6 | 6 | 1st | $60,000 |
| 7 | Pascal Martinot-Lagarde | 7 | 5 | 1st | $60,000 |
| 8 | Renaud Lavillenie | 6 | 6 | 1st | $60,000 |
| 9 | Nickel Ashmeade | 9 | 3 | 1st | $59,500 |
| 10 | Eunice Sum | 8 | 4 | 1st | $58,000 |
| 11 | LaShawn Merritt | 6 | 5 | 1st | $56,000 |
| 12 | Blessing Okagbare | 9 | 3 | 1st | $55,000 |
| 13 | Piotr Małachowski | 7 | 3 | 1st | $54,000 |
| 14 | Allyson Felix | 9 | 3 | 1st | $52,500 |
| 15 | Michael Tinsley | 7 | 3 | 1st | $52,000 |
| 16 | Novlene Williams-Mills | 7 | 4 | 1st | $52,000 |
| 17 | Mercy Cherono | 7 | 4 | 1st | $50,500 |
| 18 | Reese Hoffa | 6 | 4 | 1st | $50,000 |
| 19 | Tori Bowie | 6 | 4 | 1st | $48,500 |
| 20 | Bohdan Bondarenko | 6 | 3 | 1st | $48,000 |
| 21 | Mutaz Barsham | 7 | 3 | 1st | $48,000 |
| 22 | Queen Claye | 7 | 3 | 1st | $47,000 |
| 23 | Barbora Špotáková | 5 | 4 | 1st | $46,000 |
| 24 | Dawn Harper-Nelson | 6 | 3 | 1st | $46,000 |
| 25 | Hiwot Ayalew | 6 | 3 | 1st | $46,000 |
| 26 | Ayanleh Souleiman | 8 | 1 | 1st | $45,000 |
| 27 | Javier Culson | 6 | 3 | 1st | $44,000 |
| 28 | Fabiana Murer | 5 | 4 | 1st | $42,000 |
| 29 | Jenny Simpson | 7 | 2 | 1st | $42,000 |
| 30 | Alonso Edward | 6 | 3 | 1st | $41,500 |
| 31 | Will Claye | 6 | 3 | 1st | $41,500 |
| 32 | Genzebe Dibaba | 7 | 2 | 1st | $41,000 |
| 33 | Tianna Bartoletta | 6 | 3 | 1st | $41,000 |
| 34 | Asbel Kiprop | 5 | 3 | 1st | $40,000 |
| 35 | Justin Gatlin | 4 | 4 | 1st | $40,000 |
| 36 | Robert Harting | 4 | 4 | 1st | $40,000 |
| 37 | Sifan Hassan | 7 | 2 | 1st | $39,500 |
| 38 | Mariya Lasitskene | 5 | 3 | 1st | $39,000 |
| 39 | Silas Kiplagat | 5 | 2 | 1st | $38,000 |
| 40 | Yenew Alamirew | 5 | 2 | 1st | $38,000 |
Christian Taylor collected $71,500 of the $6,576,500 the season paid out, 1.1% of it. 392 athletes were paid more than once in 2014 and the rest were paid once, which is what a money list of a series that runs fourteen times a summer looks like. The table lists the 40 biggest of 650.
Every meeting of 2014
In the order the season ran them
| MEETING | WHERE | WHEN | DISCIPLINES | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix | Doha | 09 May | 16 | $457,000 |
| Shanghai Golden Grand Prix | Shanghai | 18 May | 16 | $468,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic | Eugene | 31 May | 16 | $475,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | Rome | 05 June | 16 | $462,000 |
| ExxonMobil Bislett Games | Oslo | 11 June | 16 | $468,500 |
| Adidas Grand Prix | New York City | 14 June | 16 | $469,000 |
| Athletissima | Lausanne | 03 July | 16 | $466,500 |
| Meeting Areva | Saint-Denis | 05 July | 16 | $480,000 |
| Glasgow Grand Prix | Glasgow | 11 to 12 July | 16 | $474,500 |
| Herculis | Fontvieille | 18 July | 16 | $465,000 |
| DN Galan | Stockholm | 21 August | 16 | $471,000 |
| British Athletics Grand Prix | Birmingham | 24 August | 16 | $470,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich | Zürich | 28 August | 16 | $476,500 |
| Belgacom Memorial Van Damme | Brussels | 05 September | 16 | $473,500 |
| 14 meetings | 14 cities | - | 224 | $6,576,500$6.6m |
What the season paid, meeting by meeting
season running total
The line is the running total, and it is close to straight because the pots barely move: every series meeting pays the same rate a discipline, so what separates them is how many disciplines they ran.
Every discipline of 2014
How often each one ran, and what it paid across the season
No discipline runs at every meeting. The series rotates them, so a discipline's total for the season is its rate multiplied by how many times it was on the programme, and the column above is a count of appearances rather than a ranking of anything.
What each place paid in 2014
The card in force across the season
| PLACE | SERIES |
|---|---|
| 1st | $10,000 |
| 2nd | $6,000 |
| 3rd | $4,000 |
| 4th | $3,000 |
| 5th | $2,500 |
| 6th | $2,000 |
| 7th | $1,500 |
| 8th | $1,000 |
| All eight | $30,000 |
Every column is the whole of what that kind of discipline paid in 2014. There is no appearance money in these figures, no bonus for a record and nothing for ninth, and where athletes tied they took the places between them and split the money for all of them.
Frequently asked questions
How much prize money did the 2014 Diamond League pay?
$6,576,500 across fourteen meetings and 35 disciplines, to 650 athletes. That is 5.8% of everything the series has paid across the sixteen seasons on this site.
What did a Diamond League win pay in 2014?
$10,000 at a series meeting. The figure is the same in every discipline on the card, so a win in the shot put pays what a win in the 100 m pays.
Who earned the most in the 2014 Diamond League?
Christian Taylor, on $71,500 from twelve paid finishes, three of them wins. 392 of the 650 athletes paid in 2014 were paid more than once.
How many meetings did the 2014 Diamond League run?
Fourteen, every one of them paid at the series rate, because the season had no final of its own. Every series meeting paid the same rate for the same finishing place, so what separates one meeting's pot from another is how many disciplines it ran.
How far down the field does the Diamond League pay?
Eight places. Ninth pays nothing however fast the race was: 1,742 payments in 2014 went to 650 athletes from 80 countries, and 31 other finishes in the same result tables were worth nothing at all.
Where to next
The rest of the Diamond League money
Diamond League prize money holds all sixteen seasons on this site, 224 meetings and $113,397,000. The season before this one is 2013, which paid $6,559,500. The season after is 2015, on $6,668,750.
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