Diamond League 2025 prize money
The 2025 Diamond League paid $9,188,500 to 667 athletes across fifteen meetings, from 26 April to 28 August. Armand Duplantis took more of it than anyone, $160,000.
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. A Diamond+ discipline pays more again, $20,000 for a series win, and ran 64 times across the season.
Who earned the most in 2025
The 2025 Diamond League money list
| # | ATHLETE | PAID | WINS | BIGGEST DAY | EARNED |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armand Duplantis | 7 | 7 | 1st | $160,000 |
| 2 | Julien Alfred | 6 | 5 | 1st | $116,000 |
| 3 | Femke Bol | 6 | 6 | 1st | $100,000 |
| 4 | Katie Moon | 6 | 4 | 1st | $98,000 |
| 5 | Karsten Warholm | 6 | 5 | 1st | $96,000 |
| 6 | Cordell Tinch | 6 | 4 | 1st | $92,000 |
| 7 | Emmanuel Wanyonyi | 7 | 5 | 1st | $84,000 |
| 8 | Niels Laros | 3 | 3 | 1st | $80,000 |
| 9 | Noah Lyles | 5 | 2 | 1st | $80,000 |
| 10 | Valarie Allman | 5 | 5 | 1st | $80,000 |
| 11 | Emmanouil Karalis | 8 | 1 | 2nd | $76,750 |
| 12 | Nelly Chepchirchir | 5 | 4 | 1st | $74,000 |
| 13 | Akani Simbine | 7 | 3 | 1st | $70,000 |
| 14 | Ackera Nugent | 5 | 1 | 1st | $69,000 |
| 15 | Nicola Olyslagers | 6 | 4 | 1st | $68,667 |
| 16 | Jessica Schilder | 6 | 3 | 1st | $66,500 |
| 17 | Beatrice Chebet | 5 | 4 | 1st | $66,000 |
| 18 | Christian Coleman | 6 | 1 | 1st | $66,000 |
| 19 | Faith Cherotich | 5 | 4 | 1st | $66,000 |
| 20 | Hamish Kerr | 7 | 3 | 1st | $65,250 |
| 21 | Chase Jackson | 6 | 3 | 1st | $64,000 |
| 22 | Larissa Iapichino | 4 | 1 | 1st | $64,000 |
| 23 | Joe Kovacs | 6 | 3 | 1st | $63,000 |
| 24 | Grace Stark | 6 | 3 | 1st | $59,000 |
| 25 | Salwa Eid Naser | 5 | 2 | 1st | $59,000 |
| 26 | Elina Tzengko | 5 | 3 | 1st | $57,000 |
| 27 | Fantaye Belayneh | 3 | 1 | 1st | $57,000 |
| 28 | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | 6 | 2 | 1st | $57,000 |
| 29 | Georgia Hunter Bell | 7 | 2 | 1st | $56,000 |
| 30 | Julian Weber | 4 | 3 | 1st | $56,000 |
| 31 | Leyanis Pérez | 4 | 3 | 1st | $56,000 |
| 32 | Henriette Jæger | 6 | 1 | 1st | $55,000 |
| 33 | Marileidy Paulino | 5 | 3 | 1st | $55,000 |
| 34 | Anavia Battle | 5 | 4 | 1st | $54,000 |
| 35 | Jacory Patterson | 4 | 3 | 1st | $54,000 |
| 36 | Letsile Tebogo | 8 | 2 | 2nd | $52,500 |
| 37 | Rai Benjamin | 4 | 2 | 1st | $52,000 |
| 38 | Kishane Thompson | 3 | 2 | 1st | $50,000 |
| 39 | Mykolas Alekna | 3 | 2 | 1st | $50,000 |
| 40 | Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith | 8 | 0 | 2nd | $49,000 |
Armand Duplantis collected $160,000 of the $9,188,500 the season paid out, 1.7% of it. 399 athletes were paid more than once in 2025 and the rest were paid once, which is what a money list of a series that runs fifteen times a summer looks like. The table lists the 40 biggest of 667.
Every meeting of 2025
In the order the season ran them
| MEETING | WHERE | WHEN | DISCIPLINES | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xiamen Diamond League | Xiamen | 26 April | 14 | $500,000 |
| Diamond League Shanghai | Shaoxing | 3 May | 14 | $500,000 |
| Doha Diamond League | Doha | 16 May | 14 | $500,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | Rabat | 25 May | 14 | $498,500 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | Rome | 6 June | 14 | $500,000 |
| Bislett Games | Oslo | 11-12 June | 13 | $469,000 |
| Bauhausgalan | Stockholm | 14-15 June | 15 | $525,000 |
| Meeting de Paris | Paris | 20 June | 14 | $498,500 |
| Prefontaine Classic | Eugene | 5 July | 14 | $500,000 |
| Herculis EBS | Fontvieille | 11 July | 14 | $498,000 |
| London Athletics Meet | London | 19 July | 14 | $499,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | Chorzów | 15 to 16 August | 14 | $500,000 |
| Athletissima | Lausanne | 19 to 20 August | 14 | $500,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme | Brussels | 22 August | 14 | $498,500 |
| Weltklasse Zürich | Zürich | 27 to 28 August | 32 | $2,202,000$2.2m |
| 15 meetings | 15 cities | — | 228 | $9,188,500$9.2m |
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 2025
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 2025
The four cards in force across the season
| PLACE | SERIES | SERIES + | FINAL | FINAL + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | $10,000 | $20,000 | $30,000 | $50,000 |
| 2nd | $6,000 | $10,000 | $12,000 | $20,000 |
| 3rd | $4,000 | $6,000 | $7,000 | $10,000 |
| 4th | $3,000 | $5,000 | $4,000 | $6,000 |
| 5th | $2,500 | $3,000 | $2,500 | $5,000 |
| 6th | $2,000 | $2,500 | $2,000 | $4,000 |
| 7th | $1,500 | $2,000 | $1,500 | $3,000 |
| 8th | $1,000 | $1,500 | $1,000 | $2,000 |
| All eight | $30,000 | $50,000 | $60,000 | $100,000 |
Every column is the whole of what that kind of discipline paid in 2025. 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 2025 Diamond League pay?
$9,188,500 across fifteen meetings and 38 disciplines, to 667 athletes. That is 17.1% of everything the series has paid across the nine seasons on this site.
What did a Diamond League win pay in 2025?
$10,000 at a series meeting and $30,000 at the final, and double that in a Diamond+ discipline: $20,000 in the series. 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 2025 Diamond League?
Armand Duplantis, on $160,000 from seven paid finishes, seven of them wins. 399 of the 667 athletes paid in 2025 were paid more than once.
How many meetings did the 2025 Diamond League run?
Fifteen: fourteen 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 and how many of them were Diamond+.
What is a Diamond+ discipline?
A discipline the series pays double for. It arrived in 2025 and ran 64 times in that first season: $20,000 for a series win against $10,000 in a standard discipline at the same meeting. Nothing else changes, and the eight paying places are the same eight.
How far down the field does the Diamond League pay?
Eight places. Ninth pays nothing however fast the race was: 1,792 payments in 2025 went to 667 athletes from 83 countries, and 423 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 2024, which paid $6,752,000. The season after is 2026, on $9,200,500.
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
- Xiamen Diamond League
- Diamond League Shanghai
- Doha Diamond League
- Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat
- Golden Gala Pietro Mennea
- Bislett Games
- Bauhausgalan
- Meeting de Paris
- Prefontaine Classic
- Herculis EBS
- London Athletics Meet
- Kamila Skolimowska Memorial
- Athletissima
- AG Memorial Van Damme
- Weltklasse Zürich