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DIAMOND LEAGUE · 2026 · SUI

Athletissima 2026 prize money

The 2026 Athletissima paid $496,500 across fourteen disciplines at Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne, 20 to 21 August 2026. Eight athletes left with the biggest cheque of the day, $20,000 each.

The Diamond League pays by finishing place. One card sets what first through eighth is worth and the same figure applies in every discipline on it, so the tables below are the same ladder fourteen times over. Two ladders, in fact: eight of these disciplines were Diamond+, which pays $39,000 against the $30,000 the other six paid.

MEETING PAID $496,500
A WIN PAID $20,000
DISCIPLINES 14
ATHLETES PAID 109
DATE 20 to 21 August

What each place paid

The card in force at the 2026 Athletissima

two cards
What the Diamond League paid for each finishing place at the 2026 Athletissima.
PLACE DIAMOND+DIAMOND LEAGUE SHARE
1st $20,000$10,000 50.0%
2nd $6,000$6,000 15.0%
3rd $4,000$4,000 10.0%
4th $3,000$3,000 7.5%
5th $2,500$2,500 6.3%
6th $2,000$2,000 5.0%
7th $1,500$1,500 3.8%
8th $1,000$1,000 2.5%
All eight $40,000$30,000 100%

Where the money sits in a Diamond League field

1st $20k
2nd $6,000
3rd $4,000
4th $3,000
5th $2,500
6th $2,000
7th $1,500
8th $1,000

First place takes 50% of what a discipline pays out and eighth takes 2.5%. That ladder is repeated fourteen times at this meeting and it is the whole of how the Diamond League pays: no appearance money, no record bonus, nothing for ninth. Where athletes tie, they take the places they occupy between them, the money for those places is added up and split equally, and the meeting's total does not move. Four athletes finished level here.

Every discipline

Who won it, and what the win was worth

14 disciplines
Every discipline at the 2026 Athletissima, its winner and what the discipline paid out in total.
DISCIPLINE WINNER WIN PAID DISCIPLINE POT
Women's 100 m hurdles Diamond+ Masai Russell USA $20,000 $39,000
Men's 200 m Diamond+ Letsile Tebogo BOT $20,000 $40,000
Women's 200 m Diamond+ Kayla White USA $20,000 $37,500
Men's 800 m Diamond+ Emmanuel Wanyonyi KEN $20,000 $40,000
Women's 800 m Diamond+ Audrey Werro SUI $20,000 $40,000
Men's javelin throw Diamond+ Rumesh Tharanga SRI $20,000 $40,000
Men's long jump Diamond+ Miltiadis Tentoglou GRE $20,000 $40,000
Women's pole vault Diamond+ Hana Moll USA $20,000 $40,000
Women's 3000 m steeplechase Winfred Yavi BRN $10,000 $30,000
Women's 400 m hurdles Emma Zapletalová SVK $10,000 $30,000
Men's 5000 m Birhanu Balew BRN $10,000 $30,000
Women's javelin throw Haruka Kitaguchi JPN $10,000 $30,000
Men's pole vault Armand Duplantis SWE $10,000 $30,000
Men's triple jump Pedro Pichardo POR $10,000 $30,000
14 disciplines 14 winners — $496,500

Every discipline on the same tier pays out the identical amount, so the last column is two figures repeated rather than a ranking. What differs between the rows is who was standing in each place when it was handed over.

Every payment

All 109 cheques the 2026 Athletissima wrote

135 finishers
Every athlete paid at the 2026 Athletissima, the discipline, the place and the amount.
ATHLETE DISCIPLINE PLACE PAID
Women's 100 m hurdles · Diamond+ · $39,000
Masai Russell USA 100 m hurdles 1st $20,000
Nadine Visser NED 100 m hurdles 2nd $6,000
Alaysha Johnson USA 100 m hurdles 3rd $4,000
Rayniah Jones USA 100 m hurdles 4th $3,000
Pia Skrzyszowska POL 100 m hurdles 5th $2,500
Ditaji Kambundji SUI 100 m hurdles 6th $2,000
Demisha Roswell JAM 100 m hurdles 7th $1,500
Men's 200 m · Diamond+ · $40,000
Letsile Tebogo BOT 200 m 1st $20,000
Sinesipho Dambile RSA 200 m 2nd $6,000
Makanakaishe Charamba ZWE 200 m 3rd $4,000
José Figueroa PUR 200 m 4th $3,000
Zharnel Hughes GBR 200 m 5th $2,500
Timothé Mumenthaler SUI 200 m 6th $2,000
Courtney Lindsey USA 200 m 7th $1,500
Brandon Hicklin USA 200 m 8th $1,000
Women's 200 m · Diamond+ · $37,500
Kayla White USA 200 m 1st $20,000
Amy Hunt GBR 200 m 2nd $6,000
Favour Ofili NGR 200 m 3rd $4,000
Anavia Battle USA 200 m 4th $3,000
Fabienne Hoenke SUI 200 m 5th $2,500
Léonie Pointet SUI 200 m 6th $2,000
Men's 800 m · Diamond+ · $40,000
Emmanuel Wanyonyi KEN 800 m 1st $20,000
Djamel Sedjati ALG 800 m 2nd $6,000
Brandon Miller USA 800 m 3rd $4,000
Marco Arop CAN 800 m 4th $3,000
Gabriel Tual FRA 800 m 5th $2,500
Marino Bloudek CRO 800 m 6th $2,000
David Barroso ESP 800 m 7th $1,500
Francesco Pernici ITA 800 m 8th $1,000
Women's 800 m · Diamond+ · $40,000
Audrey Werro SUI 800 m 1st $20,000
Femke Broeders-Bol NED 800 m 2nd $6,000
Saida Tsehaye ETH 800 m 3rd $4,000
Veronica Vancardo SUI 800 m 4th $3,000
Valentina Rosamilia SUI 800 m 5th $2,500
Addison Wiley USA 800 m 6th $2,000
Lilian Odira KEN 800 m 7th $1,500
Prudence Sekgodiso RSA 800 m 8th $1,000
Men's javelin throw · Diamond+ · $40,000
Rumesh Tharanga SRI Javelin throw 1st $20,000
Neeraj Chopra IND Javelin throw 2nd $6,000
Anderson Peters GRN Javelin throw 3rd $4,000
Keshorn Walcott TTO Javelin throw 4th $3,000
Marc Minichello USA Javelin throw 5th $2,500
Curtis Thompson USA Javelin throw 6th $2,000
Jakub Vadlejch CZE Javelin throw 7th $1,500
Artur Felfner UKR Javelin throw 8th $1,000
Men's long jump · Diamond+ · $40,000
Miltiadis Tentoglou GRE Long jump 1st $20,000
Simon Ehammer SUI Long jump 2nd $6,000
Luka Bošković SRB Long jump 3rd $4,000
Jorge A. Hodelín CUB Long jump 4th $3,000
Gerson Baldé POR Long jump 5th $2,500
Wayne Pinnock JAM Long jump 6th $2,000
Anvar Anvarov UZB Long jump 7th $1,500
Bozhidar Sarâboyukov BUL Long jump 8th $1,000
Women's pole vault · Diamond+ · $40,000
Hana Moll USA Pole vault 1st $20,000
Angelica Moser SUI Pole vault 2nd $6,000
Katie Moon USA Pole vault 3rd $4,000
Sandi Morris USA Pole vault 4th $3,000
Imogen Ayris NZL Pole vault 5th $2,500
Eliza McCartney NZL Pole vault =6th shared two ways $1,750
Tina Šutej SLO Pole vault =6th shared two ways $1,750
Wilma Heltelä FIN Pole vault 8th $1,000
Women's 3000 m steeplechase · $30,000
Winfred Yavi BRN 3000 m steeplechase 1st $10,000
Faith Cherotich KEN 3000 m steeplechase 2nd $6,000
Marwa Bouzayani TUN 3000 m steeplechase 3rd $4,000
Doris Lemngole KEN 3000 m steeplechase 4th $3,000
Lexy Halladay USA 3000 m steeplechase 5th $2,500
Kena Tufa ETH 3000 m steeplechase 6th $2,000
Gabrielle Jennings USA 3000 m steeplechase 7th $1,500
Elise Thorner GBR 3000 m steeplechase 8th $1,000
Women's 400 m hurdles · $30,000
Emma Zapletalová SVK 400 m hurdles 1st $10,000
Anna Cockrell USA 400 m hurdles 2nd $6,000
Paulien Couckuyt BEL 400 m hurdles 3rd $4,000
Rushell Clayton JAM 400 m hurdles 4th $3,000
Gianna Woodruff PAN 400 m hurdles 5th $2,500
Jasmine Jones USA 400 m hurdles 6th $2,000
Fatoumata Binta Diallo POR 400 m hurdles 7th $1,500
Kemi Adekoya BRN 400 m hurdles 8th $1,000
Men's 5000 m · $30,000
Birhanu Balew BRN 5000 m 1st $10,000
Parker Wolfe USA 5000 m 2nd $6,000
Nico Young USA 5000 m 3rd $4,000
Graham Blanks USA 5000 m 4th $3,000
Cornelius Kemboi KEN 5000 m 5th $2,500
Mezgebu Sime ETH 5000 m 6th $2,000
Kuma Girma ETH 5000 m 7th $1,500
Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu SUI 5000 m 8th $1,000
Women's javelin throw · $30,000
Haruka Kitaguchi JPN Javelin throw 1st $10,000
Flor Ruiz COL Javelin throw 2nd $6,000
Adriana Vilagoš SRB Javelin throw 3rd $4,000
Mackenzie Little AUS Javelin throw 4th $3,000
Sara Kolak CRO Javelin throw 5th $2,500
Madison Wiltrout USA Javelin throw 6th $2,000
Anete Sietiņa LAT Javelin throw 7th $1,500
Sigrid Borge NOR Javelin throw 8th $1,000
Men's pole vault · $30,000
Armand Duplantis SWE Pole vault 1st $10,000
Emmanouil Karalis GRE Pole vault 2nd $6,000
Kurtis Marschall AUS Pole vault 3rd $4,000
Sondre Guttormsen NOR Pole vault 4th $3,000
Chris Nilsen USA Pole vault 5th $2,500
EJ Obiena PHI Pole vault 6th $2,000
Zach Bradford USA Pole vault =7th shared two ways $1,250
Sam Kendricks USA Pole vault =7th shared two ways $1,250
Men's triple jump · $30,000
Pedro Pichardo POR Triple jump 1st $10,000
Yasser Triki ALG Triple jump 2nd $6,000
Andy Díaz ITA Triple jump 3rd $4,000
Russell Robinson USA Triple jump 4th $3,000
Jordan Scott JAM Triple jump 5th $2,500
Lázaro Martínez CUB Triple jump 6th $2,000
Andrea Dallavalle ITA Triple jump 7th $1,500
Almir dos Santos BRA Triple jump 8th $1,000

109 payments to 109 athletes, because nobody was paid twice. The money went to 50 countries. Ninth place and below is in the result tables and paid nothing, so it is not here.

Who left with the most

The 2026 Athletissima money list

109 paid
# ATHLETE BEST OF IT PAID HERE
1 Audrey Werro SUI 1st 800 m $20,000
2 Emmanuel Wanyonyi KEN 1st 800 m $20,000
3 Hana Moll USA 1st pole vault $20,000
4 Kayla White USA 1st 200 m $20,000
5 Letsile Tebogo BOT 1st 200 m $20,000
6 Masai Russell USA 1st 100 m hurdles $20,000
7 Miltiadis Tentoglou GRE 1st long jump $20,000
8 Rumesh Tharanga SRI 1st javelin throw $20,000
9 Armand Duplantis SWE 1st pole vault $10,000
10 Birhanu Balew BRN 1st 5000 m $10,000
11 Emma Zapletalová SVK 1st 400 m hurdles $10,000
12 Haruka Kitaguchi JPN 1st javelin throw $10,000
13 Pedro Pichardo POR 1st triple jump $10,000
14 Winfred Yavi BRN 1st 3000 m steeplechase $10,000
15 Amy Hunt GBR 2nd 200 m $6,000
16 Angelica Moser SUI 2nd pole vault $6,000
17 Anna Cockrell USA 2nd 400 m hurdles $6,000
18 Djamel Sedjati ALG 2nd 800 m $6,000
19 Emmanouil Karalis GRE 2nd pole vault $6,000
20 Faith Cherotich KEN 2nd 3000 m steeplechase $6,000
21 Femke Broeders-Bol NED 2nd 800 m $6,000
22 Flor Ruiz COL 2nd javelin throw $6,000
23 Nadine Visser NED 2nd 100 m hurdles $6,000
24 Neeraj Chopra IND 2nd javelin throw $6,000
25 Parker Wolfe USA 2nd 5000 m $6,000
26 Simon Ehammer SUI 2nd long jump $6,000
27 Sinesipho Dambile RSA 2nd 200 m $6,000
28 Yasser Triki ALG 2nd triple jump $6,000
29 Adriana Vilagoš SRB 3rd javelin throw $4,000
30 Alaysha Johnson USA 3rd 100 m hurdles $4,000
Audrey Werro $20k Emmanuel Wanyonyi $20k Hana Moll $20k Kayla White $20k Letsile Tebogo $20k Masai Russell $20k Miltiadis Tentoglou $20k Rumesh Tharanga $20k Armand Duplantis $10k Birhanu Balew $10k Emma Zapletalová $10k Haruka Kitaguchi $10k Pedro Pichardo $10k Winfred Yavi $10k Amy Hunt $6,000

Audrey Werro took $20,000 of the $496,500 this meeting paid out. The table lists the 30 biggest of 109; every one of them is in the payment table above.

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money did the 2026 Athletissima pay?

$496,500 in all, across fourteen disciplines. Six of them paid $30,000 and eight were Diamond+, which paid $39,000.

What did winning at the 2026 Athletissima pay?

$20,000 in a Diamond+ discipline and $10,000 in the rest. That is 50% of what the discipline pays out in total, and it is the same figure whether the win came in the 100 m or the javelin.

How far down the field does the Diamond League pay?

Eight places, and ninth pays nothing. 135 athletes finished a discipline at this meeting and 109 of them were paid, so 26 were in a result table here for nothing.

Who earned the most at the 2026 Athletissima?

Eight athletes tied at the top on $20,000 each, because the series pays by finishing place and by nothing else: a win in the shot put is worth exactly what a win in the 100 m is. Every athlete paid here was paid once, because nobody doubled up.

How is a tie paid at the Diamond League?

The tied athletes take the places they occupy and the money for all of those places is added up and split equally. Four athletes finished level at this meeting, which is why four figures in the tables below are not round numbers off the card. The meeting's total is unchanged either way.

Is the Athletissima worth more than a normal Diamond League meeting?

No. It is a series meeting and it pays the series card, which is the same card every other series meeting of 2026 paid. The final is the one that pays more.

Where to next

The rest of the Diamond League money

The 2026 Diamond League ran fifteen meetings and paid $9,200,500, and Diamond League prize money covers all 104 meetings on this site and the $53,753,250 they paid between them. Athletissima has its own page across every edition of it, and the other six are 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2019.

The meetings either side of this one