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DIAMOND LEAGUE · 2017 SEASON · 14 MEETINGS

Diamond League 2017 prize money

The 2017 Diamond League paid $7,921,500 to 595 athletes across fourteen meetings, from 5 May to 1 September. Elaine Thompson-Herah took more of it than anyone, $134,000.

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, $50,000 at the final, and eight places paid in each. There was no Diamond+ tier this season, so every discipline paid the same.

SEASON PAID $7,921,500
A SERIES WIN $10,000
MEETINGS 14
DISCIPLINES 35
ATHLETES PAID 595

Who earned the most in 2017

The 2017 Diamond League money list

595 paid
The athletes the 2017 Diamond League paid the most, with the meetings they were paid at.
# ATHLETE PAID WINS BIGGEST DAY EARNED
1 Elaine Thompson-Herah JAM 9 7 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 100 m $134,000
2 Shaunae Miller-Uibo BAH 6 4 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 200 m $127,000
3 Mariya Lasitskene ANA 7 7 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · high jump $110,000
4 Mutaz Barsham QAT 6 6 1st Weltklasse Zürich · high jump $100,000
5 Hellen Obiri KEN 6 5 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 5000 m $93,000
6 Caster Semenya RSA 6 5 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 800 m $91,500
7 Katerina Stefanidi GRE 5 5 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · pole vault $90,000
8 Nijel Amos BOT 5 5 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 800 m $90,000
9 Sam Kendricks USA 5 5 1st Weltklasse Zürich · pole vault $90,000
10 Christian Taylor USA 5 4 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · triple jump $86,000
11 Sandra Elkasević CRO 5 4 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · discus throw $86,000
12 Gong Lijiao CHN 4 4 1st Weltklasse Zürich · shot put $80,000
13 Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith CIV 11 1 2nd AG Memorial Van Damme · 100 m $80,000
14 Barbora Špotáková CZE 5 3 1st Weltklasse Zürich · javelin throw $79,000
15 Sergey Shubenkov ANA 6 1 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 110 m hurdles $71,500
16 Luvo Manyonga RSA 3 3 1st Weltklasse Zürich · long jump $70,000
17 Jakub Vadlejch CZE 5 1 1st Weltklasse Zürich · javelin throw $69,000
18 Timothy Cheruiyot KEN 4 2 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 1500 m $68,500
19 Faith Kipyegon KEN 3 2 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 1500 m $66,000
20 Ivana Španović SRB 3 2 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · long jump $66,000
21 CJ Ujah GBR 4 1 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 100 m $63,000
22 Isaac Makwala BOT 4 1 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 400 m $63,000
23 Olga Rypakova KAZ 5 1 1st Weltklasse Zürich · triple jump $63,000
24 Sifan Hassan NED 7 3 2nd AG Memorial Van Damme · 1500 m $61,000
25 Conseslus Kipruto KEN 2 2 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 3000 m steeplechase $60,000
26 Mo Farah GBR 2 2 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 5000 m $60,000
27 Noah Lyles USA 2 2 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 200 m $60,000
28 Andrius Gudžius LTU 4 1 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · discus throw $59,500
29 Dalilah Muhammad USA 3 1 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 400 m hurdles $58,500
30 Sally Pearson AUS 3 1 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 100 m hurdles $58,500
31 Darrell Hill USA 4 1 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · shot put $57,500
32 Ruth Jebet BRN 3 1 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 3000 m steeplechase $57,000
33 Francine Niyonsaba BDI 6 2 2nd Weltklasse Zürich · 800 m $56,000
34 Kyron McMaster IVB 2 1 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 400 m hurdles $56,000
35 Ryan Crouser USA 5 3 2nd AG Memorial Van Damme · shot put $56,000
36 Thomas Röhler GER 5 3 2nd Weltklasse Zürich · javelin throw $54,000
37 Dafne Schippers NED 8 3 1st Golden Gala Pietro Mennea · 100 m $53,000
38 Ameer Webb USA 7 1 2nd AG Memorial Van Damme · 200 m $52,000
39 Beatrice Chepkoech KEN 5 1 2nd Weltklasse Zürich · 3000 m steeplechase $47,000
40 Sharika Nelvis USA 6 1 2nd Weltklasse Zürich · 100 m hurdles $46,500
Elaine Thompson-Herah $134k Shaunae Miller-Uibo $127k Mariya Lasitskene $110k Mutaz Barsham $100k Hellen Obiri $93k Caster Semenya $91k Katerina Stefanidi $90k Nijel Amos $90k Sam Kendricks $90k Christian Taylor $86k Sandra Elkasević $86k Gong Lijiao $80k Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith $80k Barbora Špotáková $79k Sergey Shubenkov $72k

Elaine Thompson-Herah collected $134,000 of the $7,921,500 the season paid out, 1.7% of it. 363 athletes were paid more than once in 2017 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 595.

Every meeting of 2017

In the order the season ran them

$7,921,500
Every 2017 Diamond League meeting, its date, its disciplines and what it paid.
MEETING WHERE WHEN DISCIPLINES PAID
Doha Diamond League Doha QATAR 5 May 13 $390,000
IAAF Diamond League Shanghai Shanghai CHINA 13 May 14 $416,000
Prefontaine Classic Eugene UNITED STATES 27 May 13 $387,000
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea Rome ITALY 8 June 13 $386,000
Bislett Games Oslo NORWAY 15 June 13 $384,000
Bauhausgalan Stockholm SWEDEN 18 June 13 $377,000
Meeting de Paris Paris FRANCE 1 July 13 $386,000
Athletissima Lausanne SWITZERLAND 6 July 14 $415,000
Müller Anniversary Games London UNITED KINGDOM 9 July 13 $389,000
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat Rabat MOROCCO 16 July 14 $418,000
Herculis Monaco MONACO 21 July 12 $359,000
Müller Grand Prix Birmingham Birmingham UNITED KINGDOM 20 August 14 $416,500
Weltklasse Zürich the final Zürich SWITZERLAND 24 August 16 $1,598,000$1.6m
AG Memorial Van Damme the final Brussels BELGIUM 1 September 16 $1,600,000$1.6m
14 meetings 14 cities - 191 $7,921,500$7.9m

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. The two steps at the end are the final, split between Weltklasse Zürich and AG Memorial Van Damme, which pays 5 times what a series meeting pays for a win.

Every discipline of 2017

How often each one ran, and what it paid across the season

35 disciplines
Every discipline the 2017 Diamond League paid, with how many times it ran.
DISCIPLINE TIMES RUN PAID IN 2017
Men's 100 m 7 $280,000
Men's 200 m 7 $280,000
Men's 800 m 7 $280,000
Men's high jump 7 $280,000
Men's pole vault 7 $280,000
Women's 100 m 7 $280,000
Women's 800 m 7 $280,000
Women's 100 m hurdles 7 $279,000
Women's 200 m 7 $279,000
Women's high jump 7 $278,000
Women's pole vault 7 $277,500
Men's 400 m 7 $275,000
Men's 110 m hurdles 7 $273,500
Women's 400 m 7 $268,000
Women's 1500 m 6 $250,000
Men's 1500 m 6 $244,000
Men's 3000 m steeplechase 5 $220,000
Men's 400 m hurdles 5 $220,000
Men's discus throw 5 $220,000
Men's javelin throw 5 $220,000
Men's long jump 5 $220,000
Men's shot put 5 $220,000
Women's 3000 m steeplechase 5 $220,000
Women's shot put 5 $220,000
Women's triple jump 5 $220,000
Men's triple jump 5 $219,000
Women's javelin throw 5 $219,000
Women's long jump 5 $218,000
Women's 400 m hurdles 5 $216,500
Women's discus throw 5 $215,000
Men's 5000 m 3 $160,000
Women's 5000 m 3 $160,000
Men's 3000 m 2 $60,000
Women's 3000 m 2 $60,000
Women's mile 1 $30,000
35 disciplines 191 $7,921,500$7.9m

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 2017

The two cards in force across the season

eight places
What the Diamond League paid for each finishing place in 2017.
PLACE SERIES FINAL
1st $10,000$50,000
2nd $6,000$20,000
3rd $4,000$10,000
4th $3,000$6,000
5th $2,500$5,000
6th $2,000$4,000
7th $1,500$3,000
8th $1,000$2,000
All eight $30,000$100,000

Every column is the whole of what that kind of discipline paid in 2017. 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 2017 Diamond League pay?

$7,921,500 across fourteen meetings and 35 disciplines, to 595 athletes. That is 7.0% of everything the series has paid across the sixteen seasons on this site.

What did a Diamond League win pay in 2017?

$10,000 at a series meeting and $50,000 at the final. 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 2017 Diamond League?

Elaine Thompson-Herah, on $134,000 from nine paid finishes, seven of them wins. 363 of the 595 athletes paid in 2017 were paid more than once.

How many meetings did the 2017 Diamond League run?

Fourteen: twelve series meetings and the final, split between Weltklasse Zürich and AG Memorial Van Damme. 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: 1,503 payments in 2017 went to 595 athletes from 81 countries, and 79 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 2016, which paid $6,634,000. The season after is 2018, on $8,062,500.

Every Diamond League season

These meetings across every season