Diamond League 2015 prize money
The 2015 Diamond League paid $6,668,750 to 703 athletes across fourteen meetings, from 15 May to 11 September. Sandra Elkasević took more of it than anyone, $66,000.
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 2015
The 2015 Diamond League money list
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | BIGGEST DAY | EARNED |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandra Elkasević | 7 | 6 | 1st | $66,000 |
| 2 | Caterine Ibargüen | 6 | 6 | 1st | $60,000 |
| 3 | Christina Schwanitz | 6 | 5 | 1st | $56,000 |
| 4 | Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou | 7 | 4 | 1st | $55,000 |
| 5 | Christian Taylor | 8 | 4 | 1st | $53,000 |
| 6 | Piotr Małachowski | 7 | 4 | 1st | $53,000 |
| 7 | Sifan Hassan | 8 | 2 | 1st | $53,000 |
| 8 | Tianna Bartoletta | 8 | 3 | 1st | $51,500 |
| 9 | Eunice Sum | 5 | 5 | 1st | $50,000 |
| 10 | Justin Gatlin | 5 | 5 | 1st | $50,000 |
| 11 | Jairus Kipchoge Birech | 6 | 3 | 1st | $48,000 |
| 12 | Pedro Pichardo | 6 | 3 | 1st | $48,000 |
| 13 | Zuzana Hejnová | 6 | 4 | 1st | $48,000 |
| 14 | Ayanleh Souleiman | 7 | 3 | 1st | $47,000 |
| 15 | Renaud Lavillenie | 6 | 4 | 1st | $46,250 |
| 16 | Francena McCorory | 5 | 4 | 1st | $46,000 |
| 17 | Genzebe Dibaba | 5 | 4 | 1st | $46,000 |
| 18 | Mutaz Barsham | 7 | 3 | 1st | $45,750 |
| 19 | Greg Rutherford | 6 | 4 | 1st | $45,500 |
| 20 | Robert Urbanek | 7 | 2 | 1st | $44,500 |
| 21 | Vítězslav Veselý | 7 | 2 | 1st | $44,000 |
| 22 | Joe Kovacs | 6 | 3 | 1st | $43,000 |
| 23 | Barbora Špotáková | 6 | 3 | 1st | $42,500 |
| 24 | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | 5 | 4 | 1st | $42,500 |
| 25 | Bershawn Jackson | 5 | 3 | 1st | $42,000 |
| 26 | Virginia Nyambura | 6 | 3 | 1st | $42,000 |
| 27 | Blessing Okagbare | 7 | 1 | 1st | $40,000 |
| 28 | David Oliver | 6 | 2 | 1st | $40,000 |
| 29 | Dawn Harper-Nelson | 6 | 3 | 1st | $39,500 |
| 30 | Tero Pitkämäki | 6 | 3 | 1st | $39,500 |
| 31 | David Storl | 5 | 3 | 1st | $39,000 |
| 32 | Konstantinos Filippidis | 7 | 2 | 1st | $38,000 |
| 33 | Nijel Amos | 5 | 2 | 1st | $38,000 |
| 34 | Orlando Ortega | 7 | 2 | 1st | $38,000 |
| 35 | Asbel Kiprop | 5 | 3 | 1st | $36,500 |
| 36 | Ruth Beitia | 6 | 2 | 1st | $36,500 |
| 37 | Dafne Schippers | 5 | 2 | 1st | $35,000 |
| 38 | Michelle Carter | 6 | 1 | 1st | $35,000 |
| 39 | Sharika Nelvis | 5 | 2 | 1st | $35,000 |
| 40 | Jasmin Stowers | 6 | 2 | 1st | $34,500 |
Sandra Elkasević collected $66,000 of the $6,668,750 the season paid out, 1.0% of it. 403 athletes were paid more than once in 2015 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 703.
Every meeting of 2015
In the order the season ran them
| MEETING | WHERE | WHEN | DISCIPLINES | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix | Doha | 15 May | 16 | $474,000 |
| Shanghai Golden Grand Prix | Shanghai | 17 May | 16 | $480,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic | Eugene | 30 May | 16 | $475,500 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | Rome | 4 June | 16 | $479,000 |
| British Athletics Grand Prix | Birmingham | 7 June | 16 | $477,000 |
| Bislett Games | Oslo | 11 June | 15 | $447,000 |
| Adidas Grand Prix | New York City | 13 June | 16 | $474,500 |
| Meeting Areva | Saint-Denis | 4 July | 17 | $504,750 |
| Athletissima | Lausanne | 9 July | 16 | $478,000 |
| Herculis | Fontvieille | 17 July | 16 | $474,500 |
| Sainsburys Anniversary Games | London | 24 & 25 July | 16 | $474,000 |
| Bauhausgalan | Stockholm | 30 July | 16 | $474,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich | Zürich | 3 September | 16 | $480,000 |
| Memorial Van Damme | Brussels | 11 September | 16 | $476,500 |
| 14 meetings | 14 cities | - | 224 | $6,668,750$6.7m |
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 2015
How often each one ran, and what it paid across the season
| DISCIPLINE | TIMES RUN | PAID IN 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 7 | $210,000 |
| Men's 400 m | 7 | $210,000 |
| Men's discus throw | 7 | $210,000 |
| Men's javelin throw | 7 | $210,000 |
| Men's shot put | 7 | $210,000 |
| Women's 100 m | 7 | $210,000 |
| Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 7 | $210,000 |
| Women's 400 m hurdles | 7 | $210,000 |
| Women's javelin throw | 7 | $210,000 |
| Women's long jump | 7 | $210,000 |
| Men's 110 m hurdles | 7 | $209,000 |
| Men's long jump | 7 | $209,000 |
| Men's triple jump | 7 | $209,000 |
| Women's 400 m | 7 | $209,000 |
| Women's shot put | 7 | $209,000 |
| Men's 100 m | 7 | $208,000 |
| Men's 400 m hurdles | 7 | $208,000 |
| Women's 200 m | 7 | $208,000 |
| Women's 800 m | 7 | $208,000 |
| Men's 800 m | 7 | $207,500 |
| Men's pole vault | 7 | $207,500 |
| Women's high jump | 7 | $207,500 |
| Men's 200 m | 7 | $207,000 |
| Women's 100 m hurdles | 7 | $207,000 |
| Women's triple jump | 7 | $207,000 |
| Women's pole vault | 7 | $206,500 |
| Men's high jump | 7 | $205,250 |
| Women's discus throw | 7 | $203,500 |
| Women's 1500 m | 6 | $177,000 |
| Men's 5000 m | 5 | $150,000 |
| Women's 5000 m | 5 | $150,000 |
| Men's 1500 m | 4 | $120,000 |
| Men's mile | 3 | $90,000 |
| Men's 3000 m | 2 | $60,000 |
| Women's 3000 m | 2 | $56,000 |
| Women's mile | 1 | $30,000 |
| 36 disciplines | 224 | $6,668,750$6.7m |
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 2015
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 2015. 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 2015 Diamond League pay?
$6,668,750 across fourteen meetings and 36 disciplines, to 703 athletes. That is 5.9% of everything the series has paid across the sixteen seasons on this site.
What did a Diamond League win pay in 2015?
$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 2015 Diamond League?
Sandra Elkasević, on $66,000 from seven paid finishes, six of them wins. 403 of the 703 athletes paid in 2015 were paid more than once.
How many meetings did the 2015 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: 1,761 payments in 2015 went to 703 athletes from 86 countries, and 8 other finishes in the same result tables were worth nothing at all.
Where to next
The rest of the Diamond League money
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