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DIAMOND LEAGUE · ZÜRICH · 16 EDITIONS

Weltklasse Zürich prize money

Weltklasse Zürich has paid $15,100,000 to 1,203 athletes across sixteen editions, from 2010 to 2026. Karsten Warholm has taken more of it than anyone, $182,000.

The Diamond League pays by finishing place and by nothing else, so the rate here is the series rate: $10,000 for a win at the 2026 edition, eight places paid in every discipline, and nothing for ninth. Six of the sixteen editions here held the series final, which pays on its own ladder: $30,000 for a win at the 2025 final. 16 of the 298 disciplines on those programmes have been Diamond+, which pays double.

PAID HERE $15,100,000
A WIN IN 2026 $10,000
EDITIONS 16
DISCIPLINES 34
ATHLETES PAID 1,203

Who Weltklasse Zürich has paid the most

Every edition on this site, added up

1,203 paid
The athletes Weltklasse Zürich has paid the most across its 16 editions.
# ATHLETE PAID WINS BEST DAY HERE EARNED
1 Karsten Warholm NOR 7 3 1st 2025 · 400 m hurdles $182,000
2 Noah Lyles USA 5 5 1st 2019 · 100 m $170,000
3 Timothy Cheruiyot KEN 5 3 1st 2018 · 1500 m $148,000
4 Armand Duplantis SWE 5 4 1st 2025 · pole vault $140,000
5 Sam Kendricks USA 6 3 1st 2019 · pole vault $136,000
6 Kyron McMaster IVB 5 3 1st 2018 · 400 m hurdles $127,000
7 Caster Semenya RSA 5 3 1st 2018 · 800 m $114,000
8 Yulimar Rojas VEN 5 3 1st 2022 · triple jump $110,000
9 Luvo Manyonga RSA 3 2 1st 2018 · long jump $106,000
10 Gong Lijiao CHN 2 2 1st 2019 · shot put $100,000
11 Shaunae Miller-Uibo BAH 2 2 1st 2019 · 200 m $100,000
12 Shanieka Ricketts JAM 6 1 1st 2019 · triple jump $97,500
13 Sifan Hassan NED 7 1 1st 2019 · 1500 m $97,000
14 Femke Broeders-Bol NED 4 3 1st 2025 · 400 m hurdles $96,000
15 Jakub Vadlejch CZE 7 3 1st 2017 · javelin throw $96,000
16 Ivana Španović SRB 6 4 1st 2022 · long jump $90,000
17 Mariya Lasitskene ANA 3 3 1st 2018 · high jump $90,000
18 Valarie Sion USA 3 3 1st 2025 · discus throw $90,000
19 Fred Kerley USA 4 2 1st 2018 · 400 m $89,000
20 Joe Kovacs USA 7 2 1st 2025 · shot put $85,000
21 Dina Asher-Smith GBR 8 0 2nd 2019 · 200 m $83,500
22 Barbora Špotáková CZE 7 2 1st 2017 · javelin throw $80,500
23 Mutaz Barsham QAT 7 3 1st 2017 · high jump $80,250
24 Salwa Eid Naser BRN 2 2 1st 2019 · 400 m $80,000
25 Beatrice Chepkoech KEN 4 1 1st 2019 · 3000 m steeplechase $79,000
26 Tom Walsh NZL 7 2 1st 2018 · shot put $77,500
27 Julien Alfred LCA 3 2 1st 2025 · 100 m $76,000
28 Andriy Protsenko UKR 6 1 1st 2019 · high jump $75,250
29 Magnus Kirt EST 3 1 1st 2019 · javelin throw $74,000
30 Elaine Thompson-Herah JAM 5 2 1st 2021 · 100 m $73,500
31 Miltiadis Tentoglou GRE 6 3 1st 2022 · long jump $73,000
32 Dalilah Muhammad USA 5 1 1st 2018 · 400 m hurdles $71,000
33 Katerina Stefanidi GRE 6 1 1st 2018 · pole vault $70,500
34 Nicola Olyslagers AUS 5 2 1st 2025 · high jump $70,000
35 Ryan Crouser USA 5 2 1st 2021 · shot put $68,000
36 Ruswahl Samaai RSA 4 0 2nd 2019 · long jump $67,000
37 Yaroslava Mahuchikh UKR 5 2 1st 2022 · high jump $66,750
38 Julian Weber GER 7 1 1st 2025 · javelin throw $66,500
39 Chase Jackson USA 4 1 1st 2022 · shot put $66,000
40 Emmanuel Korir KEN 3 2 1st 2022 · 800 m $66,000
Karsten Warholm $182k Noah Lyles $170k Timothy Cheruiyot $148k Armand Duplantis $140k Sam Kendricks $136k Kyron McMaster $127k Caster Semenya $114k Yulimar Rojas $110k Luvo Manyonga $106k Gong Lijiao $100k Shaunae Miller-Uibo $100k Shanieka Ricketts $97k Sifan Hassan $97k Femke Broeders-Bol $96k Jakub Vadlejch $96k

Karsten Warholm has collected $182,000 of the $15,100,000 this meeting has paid out, 1.2% of it. Noah Lyles has won here five times, more than anyone else. 534 of the 1,203 athletes the meeting has paid were paid at it more than once. The table lists the 40 biggest of 1,203.

Every edition of Weltklasse Zürich

What each year's programme paid, and what a win was worth

$15,100,000
Every edition of Weltklasse Zürich on this site, with its date, its disciplines and what it paid.
EDITION WHERE WHEN DISCIPLINES A WIN PAID
Weltklasse Zürich 2026 Zürich Letzigrund 26 to 27 August 14 $10,000 $500,000
Weltklasse Zürich 2025 the series final Zürich Letzigrund 27 to 28 August 32 $30,000 $2,202,000$2.2m
Weltklasse Zürich 2024 Zürich Letzigrund 5 September 14 $10,000 $349,500
Weltklasse Zürich 2023 Zürich Letzigrund 31 August 15 $10,000 $374,500
Weltklasse Zürich 2022 the series final Zürich Letzigrund 7 to 8 September 30 $30,000 $1,767,500$1.8m
Weltklasse Zürich 2021 the series final Zürich Letzigrund 8 to 9 September 30 $30,000 $1,762,000$1.8m
Weltklasse Zürich 2019 the series final Zürich Letzigrund 29 August 16 $50,000 $1,600,000$1.6m
Weltklasse Zürich 2018 the series final Zürich Letzigrund 30 August 16 $50,000 $1,596,000$1.6m
Weltklasse Zürich 2017 the series final Zürich Letzigrund 24 August 16 $50,000 $1,598,000$1.6m
Weltklasse Zürich 2016 Zürich Letzigrund 1 September 16 $10,000 $478,000
Weltklasse Zürich 2015 Zürich Letzigrund 3 September 16 $10,000 $480,000
Weltklasse Zürich 2014 Zürich Letzigrund 28 August 16 $10,000 $476,500
Weltklasse 2013 Zürich Letzigrund 29 August 17 $10,000 $491,500
Weltklasse Zürich 2012 Zürich Letzigrund 30 August 17 $10,000 $476,000
Weltklasse Zürich 2011 Zürich Letzigrund 8 September 17 $10,000 $484,500
Weltklasse Zürich 2010 Zurich Letzigrund 18 to 19 August 16 $10,000 $464,000
16 editions 2 cities - 298 - $15,100,000$15.1m

What each edition paid

season running total

The line is the running total. A meeting's pot is its rate multiplied by its programme, so the columns move with how many disciplines were on the card rather than with who turned up: the biggest edition here ran 32 disciplines and the smallest 14. The tall columns are 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2025, when the series final was held here and every discipline paid on the final ladder.

Every discipline held at Weltklasse Zürich

How often each one has been on the programme, and what it has paid

34 disciplines
Every discipline Weltklasse Zürich has run, with how many editions it appeared in.
DISCIPLINE EDITIONS PAID HERE
Men's 400 m hurdles 12 $697,000
Men's long jump 13 $682,000
Men's javelin throw 12 $641,500
Men's 1500 m 11 $600,000
Women's javelin throw 10 $585,500
Women's 800 m 12 $578,000
Men's 400 m 11 $554,000
Women's 400 m hurdles 11 $550,000
Men's high jump 11 $535,000
Women's 100 m 11 $527,000
Women's 3000 m steeplechase 10 $525,000
Men's 100 m 8 $510,000
Women's pole vault 12 $503,500
Women's 100 m hurdles 10 $500,000
Women's shot put 10 $498,000
Women's triple jump 7 $495,500
Women's 200 m 9 $492,500
Men's 200 m 11 $490,000
Men's pole vault 8 $488,000
Men's shot put 11 $478,000
Women's long jump 10 $411,000
Men's 3000 m steeplechase 8 $400,000
Women's 1500 m 8 $400,000
Women's high jump 8 $397,500
Men's 5000 m 7 $345,000
Men's 800 m 6 $340,000
Women's 400 m 6 $333,000
Men's 110 m hurdles 8 $324,000
Men's discus throw 7 $292,500
Women's discus throw 6 $261,500
Men's triple jump 6 $260,000
Women's 5000 m 4 $185,000
Women's 3000 m 2 $130,000
Men's 3000 m 2 $90,000
34 disciplines 298 $15,100,000$15.1m

A discipline that has been on every programme has paid more here than one that has been on two, and that is the whole of what the column above ranks: the rate is the same in all of them. Each discipline links to what it has paid across the series.

What each place has paid at Weltklasse Zürich

The eight ladders this meeting has paid under

eight places
What Weltklasse Zürich has paid for each finishing place, on every rate card it has run under.
PLACE SERIES 2010-20 SERIES 2021-24 SERIES 2025-26 SERIES + 2026 FINAL 2017-19 FINAL 2021-24 FINAL 2025-26 FINAL + 2025
1st $10,000$10,000$10,000$20,000$50,000$30,000$30,000$50,000
2nd $6,000$6,000$6,000$6,000$20,000$12,000$12,000$20,000
3rd $4,000$3,500$4,000$4,000$10,000$7,000$7,000$10,000
4th $3,000$2,000$3,000$3,000$6,000$4,000$4,000$6,000
5th $2,500$1,250$2,500$2,500$5,000$2,500$2,500$5,000
6th $2,000$1,000$2,000$2,000$4,000$2,000$2,000$4,000
7th $1,500$750$1,500$1,500$3,000$1,500$1,500$3,000
8th $1,000$500$1,000$1,000$2,000$1,000$1,000$2,000
All eight $30,000$25,000$30,000$40,000$100,000$60,000$60,000$100,000

One column per ladder, and a column covers every discipline the meeting ran while that ladder was in force. The series ladder has been rewritten two times inside the run of editions here, and a win has paid $10,000 under every version of it. What moved is underneath: eighth place was worth $1,000 on the oldest card on this table and $1,000 on the current one, and the eight places together came to $30,000 against $30,000. There is no appearance money in any of it, nothing 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 has Weltklasse Zürich paid?

$15,100,000 across sixteen editions, to 1,203 athletes from 105 countries. That is 13.3% of everything the Diamond League has paid across the sixteen seasons on this site.

What does a win at Weltklasse Zürich pay?

$10,000, and double that in a Diamond+ discipline. It is the same figure in every discipline on the programme, so a win in the shot put pays what a win in the 100 m pays. Six of the sixteen editions here were the series final, which pays several times what a series meeting pays.

Who has earned the most at Weltklasse Zürich?

Karsten Warholm, on $182,000 from seven paid finishes, three of them wins. 534 of the 1,203 athletes the meeting has paid were paid at it more than once.

How many editions of Weltklasse Zürich are on this site?

Sixteen, from 2010 to 2026. Those programmes ran 298 disciplines between them and produced 2,266 payments. It has been held in two cities over that run: Zürich and Zurich. It has carried two names, and the current one is Weltklasse Zürich.

Which disciplines does Weltklasse Zürich run?

34 different ones across the sixteen editions, and never all of them at once: the series rotates its programme, so men's 400 m hurdles has been on it twelve times and a discipline's total here is its rate multiplied by how often it was run.

How far down the field does Weltklasse Zürich pay?

Eight places, and ninth pays nothing however fast the race was. 2,266 payments have gone to 1,203 athletes at this meeting, and 166 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 2026 season is at Diamond League 2026. Weltklasse Zürich is one of 19 meetings on this site, and Switzerland holds two of them.

Every edition of Weltklasse Zürich

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Every Diamond League season