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DIAMOND LEAGUE · 2018 SEASON · 14 MEETINGS

Diamond League 2018 prize money

The 2018 Diamond League paid $8,062,500 to 564 athletes across fourteen meetings, from 4 May to 31 August. Caterine Ibargüen took more of it than anyone, $150,000.

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 $8,062,500
A SERIES WIN $10,000
MEETINGS 14
DISCIPLINES 37
ATHLETES PAID 564

Who earned the most in 2018

The 2018 Diamond League money list

564 paid
The athletes the 2018 Diamond League paid the most, with the meetings they were paid at.
# ATHLETE PAID WINS BIGGEST DAY EARNED
1 Caterine Ibargüen COL 8 6 1st Weltklasse Zürich · triple jump $150,000
2 Mariya Lasitskene ANA 7 6 1st Weltklasse Zürich · high jump $103,500
3 Caster Semenya RSA 7 6 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 800 m $102,000
4 Shaunae Miller-Uibo BAH 6 6 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 200 m $100,000
5 Noah Lyles USA 7 5 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 200 m $98,000
6 Salwa Eid Naser BRN 6 5 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 400 m $96,000
7 Brianna Rollins-McNeal USA 6 4 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 100 m hurdles $92,000
8 Timothy Cheruiyot KEN 5 5 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 1500 m $90,000
9 Murielle Ahouré-Demps CIV 8 2 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 100 m $85,500
10 Luvo Manyonga RSA 5 4 1st Weltklasse Zürich · long jump $84,000
11 Dalilah Muhammad USA 6 3 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 400 m hurdles $83,000
12 Fedrick Dacres JAM 5 4 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · discus throw $81,000
13 Emmanuel Korir KEN 4 4 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 800 m $80,000
14 Sergey Shubenkov ANA 5 3 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 110 m hurdles $80,000
15 Tom Walsh NZL 5 3 1st Weltklasse Zürich · shot put $75,500
16 Katerina Stefanidi GRE 6 2 1st Weltklasse Zürich · pole vault $75,250
17 Andreas Hofmann GER 5 2 1st Weltklasse Zürich · javelin throw $74,000
18 Yaime Pérez CUB 5 1 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · discus throw $74,000
19 Christian Coleman USA 4 3 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 100 m $73,000
20 Fred Kerley USA 4 3 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 400 m $73,000
21 Laura Muir GBR 6 1 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 1500 m $73,000
22 Beatrice Chepkoech KEN 4 3 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 3000 m steeplechase $72,500
23 Hellen Obiri KEN 5 2 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 5000 m $72,000
24 Pedro Pichardo POR 4 2 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · triple jump $72,000
25 Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith CIV 10 5 1st Doha Diamond League · 100 m $71,000
26 Conseslus Kipruto KEN 4 2 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 3000 m steeplechase $70,000
27 Gong Lijiao CHN 3 3 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · shot put $70,000
28 Brandon Starc AUS 4 2 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · high jump $67,500
29 Sam Kendricks USA 6 4 2nd AG Memorial Van Damme · pole vault $66,000
30 Selemon Barega ETH 3 2 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · 5000 m $66,000
31 Tatsiana Khaladovich BLR 4 2 1st Weltklasse Zürich · javelin throw $65,000
32 Abderrahman Samba QAT 7 6 1st Doha Diamond League · 400 m hurdles $62,500
33 Christian Taylor USA 7 3 2nd AG Memorial Van Damme · triple jump $61,500
34 Kyron McMaster IVB 3 1 1st Weltklasse Zürich · 400 m hurdles $60,000
35 Sifan Hassan NED 6 2 2nd Weltklasse Zürich · 5000 m $60,000
36 Sandi Morris USA 7 3 2nd Weltklasse Zürich · pole vault $59,750
37 Ronnie Baker USA 5 3 2nd AG Memorial Van Damme · 100 m $56,000
38 Ramil Guliyev TUR 8 2 2nd Weltklasse Zürich · 200 m $54,500
39 Timur Morgunov ANA 2 1 1st AG Memorial Van Damme · pole vault $54,000
40 Dina Asher-Smith GBR 7 1 2nd Weltklasse Zürich · 100 m $53,000
Caterine Ibargüen $150k Mariya Lasitskene $104k Caster Semenya $102k Shaunae Miller-Uibo $100k Noah Lyles $98k Salwa Eid Naser $96k Brianna Rollins-McNeal $92k Timothy Cheruiyot $90k Murielle Ahouré-Demps $85k Luvo Manyonga $84k Dalilah Muhammad $83k Fedrick Dacres $81k Emmanuel Korir $80k Sergey Shubenkov $80k Tom Walsh $76k

Caterine Ibargüen collected $150,000 of the $8,062,500 the season paid out, 1.9% of it. 355 athletes were paid more than once in 2018 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 564.

Every meeting of 2018

In the order the season ran them

$8,062,500
Every 2018 Diamond League meeting, its date, its disciplines and what it paid.
MEETING WHERE WHEN DISCIPLINES PAID
Doha Diamond League Doha QATAR 4 May 13 $389,000
IAAF Diamond League Shanghai Shanghai CHINA 12 May 14 $420,000
Prefontaine Classic Eugene UNITED STATES 26 May 14 $416,500
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea Rome ITALY 31 May 13 $389,000
Bislett Games Oslo NORWAY 7 June 14 $418,000
Bauhausgalan Stockholm SWEDEN 10 June 13 $382,000
Meeting de Paris Paris FRANCE 30 June 13 $389,000
Athletissima Lausanne SWITZERLAND 5 July 15 $433,500
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat Rabat MOROCCO 13 July 14 $417,500
Herculis Monaco MONACO 20 July 13 $380,000
Müller Anniversary Games London UNITED KINGDOM 21 to 22 July 14 $418,000
Müller Grand Prix Birmingham Birmingham UNITED KINGDOM 18 August 14 $414,000
Weltklasse Zürich the final Zürich SWITZERLAND 30 August 16 $1,596,000$1.6m
AG Memorial Van Damme the final Brussels BELGIUM 31 August 16 $1,600,000$1.6m
14 meetings 14 cities - 196 $8,062,500$8.1m

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 2018

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

37 disciplines
Every discipline the 2018 Diamond League paid, with how many times it ran.
DISCIPLINE TIMES RUN PAID IN 2018
Men's 100 m 7 $280,000
Women's 100 m hurdles 7 $280,000
Women's 200 m 7 $280,000
Women's 800 m 7 $280,000
Women's high jump 7 $280,000
Men's 400 m hurdles 7 $279,000
Men's pole vault 7 $279,000
Women's 400 m 7 $279,000
Men's 110 m hurdles 7 $278,000
Men's 200 m 7 $278,000
Women's 400 m hurdles 7 $277,500
Women's pole vault 7 $276,500
Men's 400 m 7 $275,500
Women's 100 m 7 $275,500
Men's high jump 7 $260,000
Men's 1500 m 6 $250,000
Men's 800 m 6 $250,000
Women's 1500 m 6 $248,000
Men's 3000 m steeplechase 5 $220,000
Men's discus 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 javelin throw 5 $220,000
Women's shot put 5 $220,000
Women's triple jump 5 $220,000
Men's javelin throw 5 $219,000
Men's triple jump 5 $219,000
Women's discus throw 5 $219,000
Women's long jump 5 $219,000
Men's 5000 m 4 $188,000
Women's 5000 m 3 $158,500
Women's 3000 m 2 $60,000
Men's 3000 m 1 $30,000
Men's mile 1 $30,000
Women's mile 1 $30,000
Men's 1000 m 1 $24,000
37 disciplines 196 $8,062,500$8.1m

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 2018

The two cards in force across the season

eight places
What the Diamond League paid for each finishing place in 2018.
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 2018. 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 2018 Diamond League pay?

$8,062,500 across fourteen meetings and 37 disciplines, to 564 athletes. That is 7.1% of everything the series has paid across the sixteen seasons on this site.

What did a Diamond League win pay in 2018?

$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 2018 Diamond League?

Caterine Ibargüen, on $150,000 from eight paid finishes, six of them wins. 355 of the 564 athletes paid in 2018 were paid more than once.

How many meetings did the 2018 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: 1,546 payments in 2018 went to 564 athletes from 74 countries, and 66 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 2017, which paid $7,921,500. The season after is 2019, on $8,092,500.

Every Diamond League season

These meetings across every season