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DIAMOND LEAGUE · 2016 · CHINA

Shanghai Golden Grand Prix 2016 prize money

The 2016 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix paid $476,000 across sixteen disciplines at Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai, 14 May 2016. 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 $476,000
A WIN PAID $10,000
DISCIPLINES 16
ATHLETES PAID 126
DATE 14 May

What each place paid

The card in force at the 2016 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix

one card
What the Diamond League paid for each finishing place at the 2016 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. Two athletes finished level here.

Every discipline

Who won it, and what the win was worth

16 disciplines
Every discipline at the 2016 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix, its winner and what the discipline paid out in total.
DISCIPLINE WINNER WIN PAID DISCIPLINE POT
Men's 100 m Justin Gatlin USA $10,000 $30,000
Men's 110 m hurdles Omar McLeod JAM $10,000 $29,000
Women's 1500 m Faith Kipyegon KEN $10,000 $30,000
Women's 200 m Murielle Ahouré-Demps CIV $10,000 $30,000
Women's 3000 m steeplechase Hyvin Kiyeng KEN $10,000 $30,000
Women's 400 m Shaunae Miller-Uibo BAH $10,000 $30,000
Men's 400 m hurdles Michael Tinsley USA $10,000 $30,000
Men's 5000 m Muktar Edris ETH $10,000 $30,000
Men's 800 m Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich KEN $10,000 $30,000
Women's discus throw Sandra Perković CRO $10,000 $30,000
Women's high jump Levern Spencer LCA $10,000 $30,000
Men's javelin throw Thomas Röhler GER $10,000 $27,000
Men's long jump Xinglong Gao CHN $10,000 $30,000
Women's long jump Ivana Vuleta SRB $10,000 $30,000
Men's pole vault Sam Kendricks USA $10,000 $30,000
Men's shot put Kurt Roberts USA $10,000 $30,000
16 disciplines 16 winners - $476,000

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 126 cheques the 2016 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix wrote

127 finishers
Every athlete paid at the 2016 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix, the discipline, the place and the amount.
ATHLETE DISCIPLINE PLACE PAID
Men's 100 m · $30,000
Justin Gatlin USA 100 m 1st $10,000
Femi Ogunode QAT 100 m 2nd $6,000
Michael Rodgers USA 100 m 3rd $4,000
Kim Collins SKN 100 m 4th $3,000
Isiah Young USA 100 m 5th $2,500
Julian Forte JAM 100 m 6th $2,000
Ramon Gittens BAR 100 m 7th $1,500
Zhenye Xie CHN 100 m 8th $1,000
Men's 110 m hurdles · $29,000
Omar McLeod JAM 110 m hurdles 1st $10,000
Hansle Parchment JAM 110 m hurdles 2nd $6,000
Wenjun Xie CHN 110 m hurdles 3rd $4,000
Dimitri Bascou FRA 110 m hurdles 4th $3,000
David Oliver USA 110 m hurdles 5th $2,500
Jason Richardson USA 110 m hurdles 6th $2,000
Honglin Zhang CHN 110 m hurdles 7th $1,500
Women's 1500 m · $30,000
Faith Kipyegon KEN 1500 m 1st $10,000
Hellen Obiri KEN 1500 m 2nd $6,000
Dawit Seyaum ETH 1500 m 3rd $4,000
Besu Sado ETH 1500 m 4th $3,000
Gudaf Tsegay ETH 1500 m 5th $2,500
Jenny Simpson USA 1500 m 6th $2,000
Sofia Ennaoui POL 1500 m 7th $1,500
Nancy Chepkwemoi KEN 1500 m 8th $1,000
Women's 200 m · $30,000
Murielle Ahouré-Demps CIV 200 m 1st $10,000
Veronica Campbell-Brown JAM 200 m 2nd $6,000
Anneisha McLaughlin-Whilby JAM 200 m 3rd $4,000
Ivet Lalova-Collio BUL 200 m 4th $3,000
Yongli Wei CHN 200 m 5th $2,500
Kaylin Whitney USA 200 m 6th $2,000
Tiffany Townsend USA 200 m 7th $1,500
Candyce McGrone USA 200 m 8th $1,000
Women's 3000 m steeplechase · $30,000
Hyvin Kiyeng KEN 3000 m steeplechase 1st $10,000
Ruth Jebet BRN 3000 m steeplechase 2nd $6,000
Sofia Assefa ETH 3000 m steeplechase 3rd $4,000
Virginia Nyambura KEN 3000 m steeplechase 4th $3,000
Purity Kirui KEN 3000 m steeplechase 5th $2,500
Lydia Chebet Rotich KEN 3000 m steeplechase 6th $2,000
Celliphine Chepteek Chespol KEN 3000 m steeplechase 7th $1,500
Sudha Singh IND 3000 m steeplechase 8th $1,000
Women's 400 m · $30,000
Shaunae Miller-Uibo BAH 400 m 1st $10,000
Stephenie Ann McPherson JAM 400 m 2nd $6,000
Natasha Hastings USA 400 m 3rd $4,000
Novlene Williams-Mills JAM 400 m 4th $3,000
Ashley Spencer USA 400 m 5th $2,500
Shericka Jackson JAM 400 m 6th $2,000
Bianca Denisa Răzor ROU 400 m 7th $1,500
Chunyu Wang CHN 400 m 8th $1,000
Men's 400 m hurdles · $30,000
Michael Tinsley USA 400 m hurdles 1st $10,000
Patryk Dobek POL 400 m hurdles 2nd $6,000
Jeffery Gibson BAH 400 m hurdles 3rd $4,000
LJ van Zyl RSA 400 m hurdles 4th $3,000
Yasmani Copello TUR 400 m hurdles 5th $2,500
Nicholas Bett KEN 400 m hurdles 6th $2,000
Kerron Clement USA 400 m hurdles 7th $1,500
Javier Culson PUR 400 m hurdles 8th $1,000
Men's 5000 m · $30,000
Muktar Edris ETH 5000 m 1st $10,000
Joshua Cheptegei UGA 5000 m 2nd $6,000
Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa KEN 5000 m 3rd $4,000
Abadi Hadis ETH 5000 m 4th $3,000
Yomif Kejelcha ETH 5000 m 5th $2,500
Hagos Gebrhiwet ETH 5000 m 6th $2,000
Albert Rop BRN 5000 m 7th $1,500
Imane Merga ETH 5000 m 8th $1,000
Men's 800 m · $30,000
Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich KEN 800 m 1st $10,000
Robert Biwott KEN 800 m 2nd $6,000
Alfred Kipketer KEN 800 m 3rd $4,000
Thijmen Kupers NED 800 m 4th $3,000
David Rudisha KEN 800 m 5th $2,500
Antoine Gakeme BDI 800 m 6th $2,000
Rynhardt van Rensburg RSA 800 m 7th $1,500
Erik Sowinski USA 800 m 8th $1,000
Women's discus throw · $30,000
Sandra Perković CRO Discus throw 1st $10,000
Dani Stevens AUS Discus throw 2nd $6,000
Denia Caballero CUB Discus throw 3rd $4,000
Xinyue Su CHN Discus throw 4th $3,000
Yaimé Pérez CUB Discus throw 5th $2,500
Whitney Ashley USA Discus throw 6th $2,000
Yarelis Barrios CUB Discus throw 7th $1,500
Jade Lally GBR Discus throw 8th $1,000
Women's high jump · $30,000
Levern Spencer LCA High jump 1st $10,000
Nadiya Dusanova UZB High jump 2nd $6,000
Ana Šimić CRO High jump 3rd $4,000
Svetlana Radzivil UZB High jump 4th $3,000
Mirela Demireva BUL High jump 5th $2,500
Yuliya Chumachenko UKR High jump 6th $2,000
Priscilla Frederick ANT High jump =7th shared two ways $1,250
Jeanelle Scheper LCA High jump =7th shared two ways $1,250
Men's javelin throw · $27,000
Thomas Röhler GER Javelin throw 1st $10,000
Jakub Vadlejch CZE Javelin throw 2nd $6,000
Vítězslav Veselý CZE Javelin throw 3rd $4,000
Ihab Abdelrahman EGY Javelin throw 4th annulled -
Hamish Peacock AUS Javelin throw 5th $2,500
Ryohei Arai JPN Javelin throw 6th $2,000
Marcin Krukowski POL Javelin throw 7th $1,500
Qinggang Zhao CHN Javelin throw 8th $1,000
Men's long jump · $30,000
Xinglong Gao CHN Long jump 1st $10,000
Ruswahl Samaai RSA Long jump 2nd $6,000
Fabrice Lapierre AUS Long jump 3rd $4,000
Jeff Henderson USA Long jump 4th $3,000
Wang Jianan CHN Long jump 5th $2,500
Yaoguang Zhang CHN Long jump 6th $2,000
Changzhou Huang CHN Long jump 7th $1,500
Dan Bramble GBR Long jump 8th $1,000
Women's long jump · $30,000
Ivana Vuleta SRB Long jump 1st $10,000
Christabel Nettey CAN Long jump 2nd $6,000
Tianna Madison USA Long jump 3rd $4,000
Sosthene Moguenara-Taroum GER Long jump 4th $3,000
Lorraine Ugen GBR Long jump 5th $2,500
Janay Deloach USA Long jump 6th $2,000
Funmi Jimoh USA Long jump 7th $1,500
Xiaoling Xu CHN Long jump 8th $1,000
Men's pole vault · $30,000
Sam Kendricks USA Pole vault 1st $10,000
Renaud Lavillenie FRA Pole vault 2nd $6,000
Shawnacy Barber CAN Pole vault 3rd $4,000
Stanley Joseph FRA Pole vault 4th $3,000
Piotr Lisek POL Pole vault 5th $2,500
Jie Yao CHN Pole vault 6th $2,000
Konstantinos Filippidis GRE Pole vault 7th $1,500
Changrui Xue CHN Pole vault 8th $1,000
Men's shot put · $30,000
Kurt Roberts USA Shot put 1st $10,000
Tom Walsh NZL Shot put 2nd $6,000
Joe Kovacs USA Shot put 3rd $4,000
Tomasz Majewski POL Shot put 4th $3,000
Tim Nedow CAN Shot put 5th $2,500
Jordan Clarke USA Shot put 6th $2,000
Franck Elemba CGO Shot put 7th $1,500
Ryan Whiting USA Shot put 8th $1,000

126 payments to 126 athletes, because nobody was paid twice. The money went to 39 countries. Ninth place and below is in the result tables and paid nothing, so it is not here.

Who left with the most

The 2016 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix money list

126 paid
# ATHLETE BEST OF IT PAID HERE
1 Faith Kipyegon KEN 1st 1500 m $10,000
2 Ferguson Rotich KEN 1st 800 m $10,000
3 Hyvin Jepkemoi KEN 1st 3000 m steeplechase $10,000
4 Ivana Španović SRB 1st long jump $10,000
5 Justin Gatlin USA 1st 100 m $10,000
6 Kurt Roberts USA 1st shot put $10,000
7 Levern Spencer LCA 1st high jump $10,000
8 Michael Tinsley USA 1st 400 m hurdles $10,000
9 Muktar Edris ETH 1st 5000 m $10,000
10 Murielle Ahouré-Demps CIV 1st 200 m $10,000
11 Omar McLeod JAM 1st 110 m hurdles $10,000
12 Sam Kendricks USA 1st pole vault $10,000
13 Sandra Elkasević CRO 1st discus throw $10,000
14 Shaunae Miller-Uibo BAH 1st 400 m $10,000
15 Thomas Röhler GER 1st javelin throw $10,000
16 Xinglong Gao CHN 1st long jump $10,000
17 Christabel Nettey CAN 2nd long jump $6,000
18 Dani Stevens AUS 2nd discus throw $6,000
19 Femi Ogunode QAT 2nd 100 m $6,000
20 Hansle Parchment JAM 2nd 110 m hurdles $6,000
21 Hellen Obiri KEN 2nd 1500 m $6,000
22 Jakub Vadlejch CZE 2nd javelin throw $6,000
23 Joshua Cheptegei UGA 2nd 5000 m $6,000
24 Nadiya Dusanova UZB 2nd high jump $6,000
25 Patryk Dobek POL 2nd 400 m hurdles $6,000
26 Renaud Lavillenie FRA 2nd pole vault $6,000
27 Robert Biwott KEN 2nd 800 m $6,000
28 Ruswahl Samaai RSA 2nd long jump $6,000
29 Ruth Jebet BRN 2nd 3000 m steeplechase $6,000
30 Stephenie Ann McPherson JAM 2nd 400 m $6,000
Faith Kipyegon $10k Ferguson Rotich $10k Hyvin Jepkemoi $10k Ivana Španović $10k Justin Gatlin $10k Kurt Roberts $10k Levern Spencer $10k Michael Tinsley $10k Muktar Edris $10k Murielle Ahouré-Demps $10k Omar McLeod $10k Sam Kendricks $10k Sandra Elkasević $10k Shaunae Miller-Uibo $10k Thomas Röhler $10k

Faith Kipyegon took $10,000 of the $476,000 this meeting paid out. The table lists the 30 biggest of 126; every one of them is in the payment table above.

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money did the 2016 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix pay?

$476,000 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 2016 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. 127 athletes finished a discipline at this meeting and 126 of them were paid, so 1 were in a result table here for nothing.

Who earned the most at the 2016 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. Two athletes finished level at this meeting, which is why two 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 2016 paid. The final is the one that pays more.

Where to next

The rest of the Diamond League money

The 2016 Diamond League ran fourteen meetings and paid $6,634,000, 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, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010.

The meetings either side of this one