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DIAMOND LEAGUE · 2015 · CHINA

Shanghai Golden Grand Prix 2015 prize money

The 2015 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix paid $480,000 across sixteen disciplines at Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai, 17 May 2015. Sixteen 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 $480,000
A WIN PAID $10,000
DISCIPLINES 16
ATHLETES PAID 128
DATE 17 May

What each place paid

The card in force at the 2015 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix

one card
What the Diamond League paid for each finishing place at the 2015 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix.
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. 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. Four athletes finished level here.

Every discipline

Who won it, and what the win was worth

16 disciplines
Every discipline at the 2015 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix, its winner and what the discipline paid out in total.
DISCIPLINE WINNER WIN PAID DISCIPLINE POT
Women's 100 m Blessing Okagbare NGR $10,000 $30,000
Men's 110 m hurdles David Oliver USA $10,000 $30,000
Men's 1500 m Silas Kiplagat KEN $10,000 $30,000
Men's 200 m Alonso Edward PAN $10,000 $30,000
Men's 3000 m steeplechase Jairus Kipchoge Birech KEN $10,000 $30,000
Men's 400 m Kirani James GRN $10,000 $30,000
Women's 400 m hurdles Kaliese Carter JAM $10,000 $30,000
Women's 5000 m Almaz Ayana ETH $10,000 $30,000
Women's 800 m Eunice Jepkoech Sum KEN $10,000 $30,000
Men's discus throw Piotr Małachowski POL $10,000 $30,000
Men's high jump Mutaz Essa Barshim QAT $10,000 $30,000
Women's javelin throw Huihui Lyu CHN $10,000 $30,000
Men's long jump Aleksandr Menkov RUS $10,000 $30,000
Women's pole vault Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou GRE $10,000 $30,000
Women's shot put Lijiao Gong CHN $10,000 $30,000
Women's triple jump Caterine Ibarguen COL $10,000 $30,000
16 disciplines 16 winners - $480,000

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 128 cheques the 2015 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix wrote

128 finishers
Every athlete paid at the 2015 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix, the discipline, the place and the amount.
ATHLETE DISCIPLINE PLACE PAID
Women's 100 m · $30,000
Blessing Okagbare NGR 100 m 1st $10,000
Tori Bowie USA 100 m 2nd $6,000
Michelle-Lee Ahye TTO 100 m 3rd $4,000
Veronica Campbell-Brown JAM 100 m 4th $3,000
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce JAM 100 m 5th $2,500
Muna Lee USA 100 m 6th $2,000
Yongli Wei CHN 100 m 7th $1,500
Schillonie Calvert-Powell JAM 100 m 8th $1,000
Men's 110 m hurdles · $30,000
David Oliver USA 110 m hurdles 1st $10,000
Orlando Ortega CUB 110 m hurdles 2nd $6,000
Aries Merritt USA 110 m hurdles 3rd $4,000
Ronnie Ash USA 110 m hurdles 4th $3,000
Sergey Shubenkov RUS 110 m hurdles 5th $2,500
Wenjun Xie CHN 110 m hurdles 6th $2,000
Jason Richardson USA 110 m hurdles 7th $1,500
Andrew Riley JAM 110 m hurdles 8th $1,000
Men's 1500 m · $30,000
Silas Kiplagat KEN 1500 m 1st $10,000
Hillary Cheruiyot Ngetich KEN 1500 m 2nd $6,000
Collins Cheboi KEN 1500 m 3rd $4,000
Ben Blankenship USA 1500 m 4th $3,000
Robert Biwott KEN 1500 m 5th $2,500
James Kiplagat Magut KEN 1500 m 6th $2,000
Jakub Holuša CZE 1500 m 7th $1,500
Ronald Musagala UGA 1500 m 8th $1,000
Men's 200 m · $30,000
Alonso Edward PAN 200 m 1st $10,000
Julian Forte JAM 200 m 2nd $6,000
Nickel Ashmeade JAM 200 m 3rd $4,000
Rasheed Dwyer JAM 200 m 4th $3,000
Aaron Brown CAN 200 m 5th $2,500
Carvin Nkanata KEN 200 m 6th $2,000
Churandy Martina NED 200 m 7th $1,500
Zhenye Xie CHN 200 m 8th $1,000
Men's 3000 m steeplechase · $30,000
Jairus Kipchoge Birech KEN 3000 m steeplechase 1st $10,000
Paul Kipsiele Koech KEN 3000 m steeplechase 2nd $6,000
Conseslus Kipruto KEN 3000 m steeplechase 3rd $4,000
Jonathan Muia Ndiku KEN 3000 m steeplechase 4th $3,000
Clement Kimutai Kemboi KEN 3000 m steeplechase 5th $2,500
Brimin Kiprop Kipruto KEN 3000 m steeplechase 6th $2,000
Hilal Yego KEN 3000 m steeplechase 7th $1,500
Abel Kiprop Mutai KEN 3000 m steeplechase 8th $1,000
Men's 400 m · $30,000
Kirani James GRN 400 m 1st $10,000
Tony McQuay USA 400 m 2nd $6,000
LaShawn Merritt USA 400 m 3rd $4,000
David Verburg USA 400 m 4th $3,000
Kévin Borlée BEL 400 m 5th $2,500
Isaac Makwala BOT 400 m 6th $2,000
Kind Butler USA 400 m 7th $1,500
Renny Quow TTO 400 m 8th $1,000
Women's 400 m hurdles · $30,000
Kaliese Carter JAM 400 m hurdles 1st $10,000
Tiffany Williams USA 400 m hurdles 2nd $6,000
Cassandra Tate USA 400 m hurdles 3rd $4,000
Georganne Moline USA 400 m hurdles 4th $3,000
Lashinda Demus USA 400 m hurdles 5th $2,500
Kori Carter USA 400 m hurdles 6th $2,000
Xia Xiao CHN 400 m hurdles 7th $1,500
Bianca Baak NED 400 m hurdles 8th $1,000
Women's 5000 m · $30,000
Almaz Ayana ETH 5000 m 1st $10,000
Viola Jelagat Kibiwot KEN 5000 m 2nd $6,000
Senbere Teferi ETH 5000 m 3rd $4,000
Alemitu Haroye ETH 5000 m 4th $3,000
Irene Jelagat KEN 5000 m 5th $2,500
Irine Chepet Cheptai KEN 5000 m 6th $2,000
Magdalyne Masai KEN 5000 m 7th $1,500
Perine Nengampi KEN 5000 m 8th $1,000
Women's 800 m · $30,000
Eunice Jepkoech Sum KEN 800 m 1st $10,000
Malika Akkaoui MAR 800 m 2nd $6,000
Janeth Jepkosgei KEN 800 m 3rd $4,000
Molly Ludlow USA 800 m 4th $3,000
Jennifer Meadows GBR 800 m 5th $2,500
Angelika Cichocka POL 800 m 6th $2,000
Marina Arzamasova BLR 800 m 7th $1,500
Lenka Masná CZE 800 m 8th $1,000
Men's discus throw · $30,000
Piotr Małachowski POL Discus throw 1st $10,000
Robert Urbanek POL Discus throw 2nd $6,000
Vikas Gowda IND Discus throw 3rd $4,000
Martin Kupper EST Discus throw 4th $3,000
Jason Morgan JAM Discus throw 5th $2,500
Andrius Gudžius LTU Discus throw 6th $2,000
Apostolos Parellis CYP Discus throw 7th $1,500
Erik Cadée NED Discus throw 8th $1,000
Men's high jump · $30,000
Mutaz Essa Barshim QAT High jump 1st $10,000
Bohdan Bondarenko UKR High jump 2nd $6,000
Zhang Guowei CHN High jump 3rd $4,000
Naoto Tobe JPN High jump 4th $3,000
Michael Mason CAN High jump =5th shared two ways $2,250
Jesse Williams USA High jump =5th shared two ways $2,250
Erik Kynard USA High jump =7th shared two ways $1,250
Jaroslav Bába CZE High jump =7th shared two ways $1,250
Women's javelin throw · $30,000
Huihui Lyu CHN Javelin throw 1st $10,000
Sunette Viljoen RSA Javelin throw 2nd $6,000
Kimberley Mickle AUS Javelin throw 3rd $4,000
Elizabeth Gleadle CAN Javelin throw 4th $3,000
Li Lingyu CHN Javelin throw 5th $2,500
Christina Obergföll GER Javelin throw 6th $2,000
Kara Winger USA Javelin throw 7th $1,500
Mariya Abakumova RUS Javelin throw 8th $1,000
Men's long jump · $30,000
Aleksandr Menkov RUS Long jump 1st $10,000
Jeff Henderson USA Long jump 2nd $6,000
Wang Jianan CHN Long jump 3rd $4,000
Jinzhe Li CHN Long jump 4th $3,000
Godfrey Khotso Mokoena RSA Long jump 5th $2,500
Changzhou Huang CHN Long jump 6th $2,000
Greg Rutherford GBR Long jump 7th $1,500
Chris Tomlinson GBR Long jump 8th $1,000
Women's pole vault · $30,000
Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou GRE Pole vault 1st $10,000
Aikaterini Stefanidi GRE Pole vault 2nd $6,000
Yarisley Silva CUB Pole vault 3rd $4,000
Li Ling CHN Pole vault 4th $3,000
Alana Boyd AUS Pole vault 5th $2,500
Silke Spiegelburg GER Pole vault 6th $2,000
Mary Saxer USA Pole vault 7th $1,500
Tina Šutej SLO Pole vault 8th $1,000
Women's shot put · $30,000
Lijiao Gong CHN Shot put 1st $10,000
Christina Schwanitz GER Shot put 2nd $6,000
Tia Brooks-Wannemacher USA Shot put 3rd $4,000
Tianqian Guo CHN Shot put 4th $3,000
Anita Márton HUN Shot put 5th $2,500
Cleopatra Borel TTO Shot put 6th $2,000
Gao Yang CHN Shot put 7th $1,500
Yuliya Leantsiuk BLR Shot put 8th $1,000
Women's triple jump · $30,000
Caterine Ibarguen COL Triple jump 1st $10,000
Olha Saladukha UKR Triple jump 2nd $6,000
Olga Rypakova KAZ Triple jump 3rd $4,000
Kristin Gierisch GER Triple jump 4th $3,000
Patrícia Mamona POR Triple jump 5th $2,500
Yanmei Li CHN Triple jump 6th $2,000
Rouguy Diallo FRA Triple jump 7th $1,500
Irina Gumenyuk RUS Triple jump 8th $1,000

128 payments to 128 athletes, because nobody was paid twice. The money went to 38 countries. Ninth place and below is in the result tables and paid nothing, so it is not here.

Who left with the most

The 2015 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix money list

128 paid
# ATHLETE BEST OF IT PAID HERE
1 Aleksandr Menkov RUS 1st long jump $10,000
2 Almaz Ayana ETH 1st 5000 m $10,000
3 Alonso Edward PAN 1st 200 m $10,000
4 Blessing Okagbare NGR 1st 100 m $10,000
5 Caterine Ibargüen COL 1st triple jump $10,000
6 David Oliver USA 1st 110 m hurdles $10,000
7 Eunice Sum KEN 1st 800 m $10,000
8 Gong Lijiao CHN 1st shot put $10,000
9 Jairus Kipchoge Birech KEN 1st 3000 m steeplechase $10,000
10 Kaliese Carter JAM 1st 400 m hurdles $10,000
11 Kirani James GRN 1st 400 m $10,000
12 Lyu Huihui CHN 1st javelin throw $10,000
13 Mutaz Barsham QAT 1st high jump $10,000
14 Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou GRE 1st pole vault $10,000
15 Piotr Małachowski POL 1st discus throw $10,000
16 Silas Kiplagat KEN 1st 1500 m $10,000
17 Bohdan Bondarenko UKR 2nd high jump $6,000
18 Christina Schwanitz GER 2nd shot put $6,000
19 Hillary Ngetich KEN 2nd 1500 m $6,000
20 Jeff Henderson USA 2nd long jump $6,000
21 Julian Forte JAM 2nd 200 m $6,000
22 Katerina Stefanidi GRE 2nd pole vault $6,000
23 Malika Akkaoui MAR 2nd 800 m $6,000
24 Olha Saladukha UKR 2nd triple jump $6,000
25 Orlando Ortega ESP 2nd 110 m hurdles $6,000
26 Paul Kipsiele Koech KEN 2nd 3000 m steeplechase $6,000
27 Robert Urbanek POL 2nd discus throw $6,000
28 Sunette Viljoen RSA 2nd javelin throw $6,000
29 Tiffany Williams USA 2nd 400 m hurdles $6,000
30 Tony McQuay USA 2nd 400 m $6,000
Aleksandr Menkov $10k Almaz Ayana $10k Alonso Edward $10k Blessing Okagbare $10k Caterine Ibargüen $10k David Oliver $10k Eunice Sum $10k Gong Lijiao $10k Jairus Kipchoge Birech $10k Kaliese Carter $10k Kirani James $10k Lyu Huihui $10k Mutaz Barsham $10k Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou $10k Piotr Małachowski $10k

Aleksandr Menkov took $10,000 of the $480,000 this meeting paid out. The table lists the 30 biggest of 128; every one of them is in the payment table above.

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money did the 2015 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix pay?

$480,000 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 2015 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix 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. 128 athletes finished a discipline at this meeting and 128 of them were paid, so 0 were in a result table here for nothing.

Who earned the most at the 2015 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix?

Sixteen 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. Four athletes finished level at this meeting, which is why four figures in the tables below are not round numbers off the card. The meeting's total is unchanged either way.

Is the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix 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 2015 paid. The final is the one that pays more.

Where to next

The rest of the Diamond League money

The 2015 Diamond League ran fourteen meetings and paid $6,668,750, and Diamond League prize money covers all 224 meetings on this site and the $113,397,000 they paid between them. Shanghai Golden Grand Prix has its own page across every edition of it, and the other twelve are 2026, 2025, 2024, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010.

The meetings either side of this one