Diamond League 2021 prize money
The 2021 Diamond League paid $5,591,000 to 627 athletes across twelve meetings, from 23 May to 9 September. Femke Bol took more of it than anyone, $82,000.
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, $30,000 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 2021
The 2021 Diamond League money list
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | BIGGEST DAY | EARNED |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Femke Bol | 7 | 6 | 1st | $82,000 |
| 2 | Armand Duplantis | 7 | 5 | 1st | $78,000 |
| 3 | Fred Kerley | 9 | 3 | 1st | $74,750 |
| 4 | Kenny Bednarek | 6 | 4 | 1st | $72,000 |
| 5 | Elaine Thompson-Herah | 5 | 4 | 1st | $66,000 |
| 6 | Faith Kipyegon | 5 | 4 | 1st | $66,000 |
| 7 | Timothy Cheruiyot | 5 | 4 | 1st | $63,500 |
| 8 | Daniel Ståhl | 4 | 4 | 1st | $60,000 |
| 9 | Andre De Grasse | 8 | 2 | 2nd | $57,500 |
| 10 | Johannes Vetter | 4 | 3 | 1st | $56,000 |
| 11 | Yulimar Rojas | 4 | 3 | 1st | $56,000 |
| 12 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | 6 | 4 | 2nd | $55,500 |
| 13 | Mariya Lasitskene | 5 | 2 | 1st | $54,000 |
| 14 | Stewart McSweyn | 9 | 2 | 1st | $54,000 |
| 15 | Alison dos Santos | 6 | 2 | 2nd | $50,000 |
| 16 | Karsten Warholm | 3 | 3 | 1st | $50,000 |
| 17 | Norah Jeruto | 3 | 3 | 1st | $50,000 |
| 18 | Pedro Pichardo | 3 | 3 | 1st | $50,000 |
| 19 | Ryan Crouser | 3 | 3 | 1st | $50,000 |
| 20 | Dina Asher-Smith | 7 | 2 | 2nd | $49,500 |
| 21 | Devon Allen | 4 | 2 | 1st | $48,000 |
| 22 | Anzhelika Sidorova | 4 | 2 | 1st | $46,750 |
| 23 | Kate Grace | 7 | 2 | 2nd | $46,250 |
| 24 | Valarie Allman | 4 | 1 | 1st | $45,500 |
| 25 | Christin Hussong | 3 | 2 | 1st | $43,500 |
| 26 | Emmanuel Korir | 3 | 1 | 1st | $42,000 |
| 27 | Sam Kendricks | 6 | 1 | 2nd | $42,000 |
| 28 | Shericka Jackson | 7 | 1 | 2nd | $42,000 |
| 29 | Shanieka Ricketts | 5 | 2 | 2nd | $41,500 |
| 30 | Benjamin Kigen | 3 | 2 | 1st | $40,750 |
| 31 | Keely Hodgkinson | 5 | 1 | 1st | $40,500 |
| 32 | Christine Mboma | 2 | 2 | 1st | $40,000 |
| 33 | Ivana Španović | 2 | 2 | 1st | $40,000 |
| 34 | Michael Cherry | 2 | 2 | 1st | $40,000 |
| 35 | Ferguson Rotich | 6 | 1 | 2nd | $39,500 |
| 36 | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | 5 | 2 | 2nd | $39,250 |
| 37 | Sandra Perković | 5 | 2 | 2nd | $39,000 |
| 38 | Yaime Pérez | 5 | 2 | 1st | $39,000 |
| 39 | Thobias Montler | 4 | 1 | 1st | $38,250 |
| 40 | Sifan Hassan | 4 | 2 | 2nd | $38,000 |
Femke Bol collected $82,000 of the $5,591,000 the season paid out, 1.5% of it. 322 athletes were paid more than once in 2021 and the rest were paid once, which is what a money list of a series that runs twelve times a summer looks like. The table lists the 40 biggest of 627.
Every meeting of 2021
In the order the season ran them
| MEETING | WHERE | WHEN | DISCIPLINES | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Müller Grand Prix Gateshead | Gateshead | 23 May | 14 | $346,750 |
| Doha Diamond League | Doha | 28 May | 14 | $350,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | Florence | 10 June | 14 | $349,000 |
| Bislett Games | Oslo | 1 July | 13 | $321,250 |
| Bauhausgalan | Stockholm | 4 July | 15 | $374,000 |
| Herculis EBS | Monaco | 9 July | 14 | $346,000 |
| Anniversary Games | Gateshead | 13 July | 14 | $348,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic | Eugene | 21 August | 14 | $346,250 |
| Athletissima | Lausanne | 26 August | 14 | $350,000 |
| Meeting de Paris | Paris | 28 August | 14 | $348,250 |
| Allianz Memorial Van Damme | Brussels | 3 September | 14 | $349,500 |
| Weltklasse Zürich | Zürich | 8 to 9 September | 30 | $1,762,000$1.8m |
| 12 meetings | 11 cities | — | 184 | $5,591,000$5.6m |
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 step at the end is Weltklasse Zürich, the final, which pays 3 times what a series meeting pays for a win.
Every discipline of 2021
How often each one ran, and what it paid across the season
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 2021
The two cards in force across the season
| PLACE | SERIES | FINAL |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | $10,000 | $30,000 |
| 2nd | $6,000 | $12,000 |
| 3rd | $3,500 | $7,000 |
| 4th | $2,000 | $4,000 |
| 5th | $1,250 | $2,500 |
| 6th | $1,000 | $2,000 |
| 7th | $750 | $1,500 |
| 8th | $500 | $1,000 |
| All eight | $25,000 | $60,000 |
Every column is the whole of what that kind of discipline paid in 2021. 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 2021 Diamond League pay?
$5,591,000 across twelve meetings and 37 disciplines, to 627 athletes. That is 10.4% of everything the series has paid across the nine seasons on this site.
What did a Diamond League win pay in 2021?
$10,000 at a series meeting and $30,000 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 2021 Diamond League?
Femke Bol, on $82,000 from seven paid finishes, six of them wins. 322 of the 627 athletes paid in 2021 were paid more than once.
How many meetings did the 2021 Diamond League run?
Twelve: eleven series meetings and the final, at Weltklasse Zürich. 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: 1,406 payments in 2021 went to 627 athletes from 80 countries, and 200 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 nine seasons on this site, 104 meetings and $53,753,250. The season before this one is 2019, which paid $8,092,500. The season after is 2022, on $6,052,500.
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