Diamond League 2023 prize money
The 2023 Diamond League paid $6,520,250 to 642 athletes across fourteen meetings, from 5 May to 17 September. Shericka Jackson took more of it than anyone, $119,000.
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 2023
The 2023 Diamond League money list
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | BIGGEST DAY | EARNED |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shericka Jackson | 10 | 6 | 1st | $119,000 |
| 2 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | 6 | 6 | 1st | $100,000 |
| 3 | Armand Duplantis | 7 | 6 | 1st | $81,250 |
| 4 | Femke Bol | 6 | 6 | 1st | $80,000 |
| 5 | Katie Moon | 7 | 4 | 1st | $75,500 |
| 6 | Faith Kipyegon | 5 | 5 | 1st | $70,000 |
| 7 | Marie-Josée Ta Lou | 8 | 4 | 2nd | $69,500 |
| 8 | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | 6 | 4 | 1st | $67,000 |
| 9 | Haruka Kitaguchi | 5 | 4 | 1st | $66,000 |
| 10 | Marileidy Paulino | 5 | 4 | 1st | $63,500 |
| 11 | Emmanuel Wanyonyi | 5 | 4 | 1st | $60,500 |
| 12 | Yulimar Rojas | 4 | 4 | 1st | $60,000 |
| 13 | Jakub Vadlejch | 5 | 3 | 1st | $59,500 |
| 14 | Tobi Amusan | 4 | 3 | 1st | $56,000 |
| 15 | Valarie Allman | 4 | 3 | 1st | $56,000 |
| 16 | Andy Díaz | 4 | 3 | 1st | $53,500 |
| 17 | Grant Holloway | 6 | 3 | 2nd | $51,500 |
| 18 | Gudaf Tsegay | 3 | 3 | 1st | $50,000 |
| 19 | Winfred Yavi | 3 | 3 | 1st | $50,000 |
| 20 | Simon Ehammer | 5 | 2 | 1st | $49,000 |
| 21 | Ivana Španović | 6 | 2 | 1st | $48,500 |
| 22 | Freweyni Hailu | 8 | 3 | 1st | $48,250 |
| 23 | Beatrice Chebet | 5 | 3 | 2nd | $48,000 |
| 24 | Karsten Warholm | 5 | 3 | 2nd | $48,000 |
| 25 | Nicola Olyslagers | 5 | 3 | 2nd | $48,000 |
| 26 | Natalia Kaczmarek | 6 | 3 | 2nd | $47,500 |
| 27 | Shamier Little | 7 | 1 | 2nd | $47,000 |
| 28 | Hansle Parchment | 4 | 2 | 1st | $45,500 |
| 29 | Kristjan Čeh | 5 | 3 | 2nd | $45,500 |
| 30 | Woo Sang-hyeok | 4 | 1 | 1st | $45,500 |
| 31 | Noah Lyles | 4 | 3 | 2nd | $42,000 |
| 32 | Ryan Crouser | 4 | 3 | 2nd | $42,000 |
| 33 | Soufiane El Bakkali | 5 | 4 | 1st | $42,000 |
| 34 | Yared Nuguse | 5 | 2 | 2nd | $41,500 |
| 35 | Chase Jackson | 2 | 2 | 1st | $40,000 |
| 36 | Christian Coleman | 2 | 2 | 1st | $40,000 |
| 37 | Hugues Fabrice Zango | 5 | 1 | 2nd | $40,000 |
| 38 | Kirani James | 2 | 2 | 1st | $40,000 |
| 39 | Rai Benjamin | 2 | 2 | 1st | $40,000 |
| 40 | Simon Koech | 2 | 2 | 1st | $40,000 |
Shericka Jackson collected $119,000 of the $6,520,250 the season paid out, 1.8% of it. 399 athletes were paid more than once in 2023 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 642.
Every meeting of 2023
In the order the season ran them
| MEETING | WHERE | WHEN | DISCIPLINES | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doha Diamond League | Doha | 5 May | 14 | $349,500 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | Rabat | 28 May | 14 | $349,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | Florence | 2 June | 15 | $373,500 |
| Meeting de Paris | Paris | 9 June | 15 | $373,750 |
| Bislett Games | Oslo | 15 June | 14 | $350,000 |
| Athletissima | Lausanne | 30 June | 15 | $374,500 |
| Bauhausgalan | Stockholm | 2 July | 14 | $348,500 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | Chorzów | 16 July | 15 | $375,000 |
| Herculis EBS | Fontvieille | 21 July | 14 | $349,000 |
| London Athletics Meet | London | 23 July | 14 | $349,500 |
| Weltklasse Zürich | Zürich | 31 August | 15 | $374,500 |
| Xiamen Diamond League | Xiamen | 2 September | 13 | $325,000 |
| Memorial Van Damme | Brussels | 8 September | 14 | $348,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic | Eugene | 16 to 17 September | 32 | $1,880,500$1.9m |
| 14 meetings | 14 cities | — | 218 | $6,520,250$6.5m |
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 Prefontaine Classic, the final, which pays 3 times what a series meeting pays for a win.
Every discipline of 2023
How often each one ran, and what it paid across the season
| DISCIPLINE | TIMES RUN | PAID IN 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Women's 100 m | 9 | $259,000 |
| Men's 800 m | 8 | $235,000 |
| Women's 400 m hurdles | 8 | $235,000 |
| Women's 400 m | 8 | $234,500 |
| Men's 100 m | 8 | $233,500 |
| Men's 200 m | 8 | $233,500 |
| Women's high jump | 8 | $233,500 |
| Men's 400 m | 8 | $233,000 |
| Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 7 | $210,000 |
| Women's 100 m hurdles | 7 | $210,000 |
| Women's 1500 m | 7 | $210,000 |
| Women's 800 m | 7 | $210,000 |
| Women's 200 m | 7 | $209,500 |
| Men's 110 m hurdles | 7 | $209,000 |
| Men's pole vault | 7 | $208,500 |
| Men's 400 m hurdles | 7 | $207,750 |
| Women's pole vault | 7 | $207,500 |
| Men's high jump | 7 | $206,500 |
| Women's discus throw | 6 | $184,000 |
| Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 6 | $182,500 |
| Women's long jump | 6 | $182,500 |
| Women's triple jump | 6 | $180,500 |
| Women's 5000 m | 5 | $160,000 |
| Men's long jump | 5 | $159,000 |
| Women's javelin throw | 5 | $159,000 |
| Men's shot put | 5 | $157,500 |
| Women's shot put | 5 | $157,500 |
| Men's discus throw | 5 | $157,000 |
| Men's javelin throw | 5 | $157,000 |
| Men's triple jump | 5 | $153,000 |
| Men's 1500 m | 6 | $150,000 |
| Men's 5000 m | 5 | $125,000 |
| Men's 3000 m | 2 | $85,000 |
| Women's 3000 m | 3 | $75,000 |
| Men's mile | 1 | $60,000 |
| Women's mile | 2 | $50,000 |
| 36 disciplines | 218 | $6,520,250$6.5m |
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 2023
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 2023. 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 2023 Diamond League pay?
$6,520,250 across fourteen meetings and 36 disciplines, to 642 athletes. That is 12.1% of everything the series has paid across the nine seasons on this site.
What did a Diamond League win pay in 2023?
$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 2023 Diamond League?
Shericka Jackson, on $119,000 from ten paid finishes, six of them wins. 399 of the 642 athletes paid in 2023 were paid more than once.
How many meetings did the 2023 Diamond League run?
Fourteen: thirteen series meetings and the final, at Prefontaine Classic. 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: 1,694 payments in 2023 went to 642 athletes from 83 countries, and 351 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 2022, which paid $6,052,500. The season after is 2024, on $6,752,000.
Every Diamond League season
- Diamond League 2026
- Diamond League 2025
- Diamond League 2024
- Diamond League 2023
- Diamond League 2022
- Diamond League 2021
- Diamond League 2019
- Diamond League 2018
- Diamond League 2017
These meetings across every season
- Doha Diamond League
- Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat
- Golden Gala Pietro Mennea
- Meeting de Paris
- Bislett Games
- Athletissima
- Bauhausgalan
- Kamila Skolimowska Memorial
- Herculis EBS
- London Athletics Meet
- Weltklasse Zürich
- Xiamen Diamond League
- Memorial Van Damme
- Prefontaine Classic