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WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS · TORUŃ 2026 · FIELD

Men's high jump indoor prize money

Oleh Doroshchuk won the men's high jump at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships with 2.30 and took $40,000. Second was worth $20,000 and third $10,000, and the money ran six deep, so the final paid $88,000 in all.

Twelve athletes contested the final in Toruń, from ten countries. Every event indoors carries the same $88,000, relays included, and the championships put up $2,376,000 across 27 of them in Toruń. Raymond Richards and Woo Sang-hyeok could not be separated for 3rd, so they took the money of 3rd and 4th and split it two ways, $9,000 each. The two finals below are the Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026 championships, and the ladder under them has not moved between the two.

THE WINNER TOOK $40,000
THE EVENT CARRIES $88,000
IN THE FINAL 12
COUNTRIES 10
PAID ACROSS TWO FINALS $176,000

The 2026 final

Toruń, 20 to 22 March 2026

$88,000 paid
The men's high jump final at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships, with what each place paid.
POS ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK PRIZE
1 Oleh Doroshchuk Ukraine UKR 2.30 $40,000
2 Erick Portillo Mexico MEX 2.30 $20,000
=3 Raymond Richards Jamaica JAM 2.26 $9,000
=3 Woo Sang-hyeok South Korea KOR 2.26 $9,000
5 Tomohiro Shinno Japan JPN 2.26 $6,000
6 Jan Štefela Czechia CZE 2.26 $4,000
7 Mateusz Kołodziejski Poland POL 2.22 —
8 Antonios Merlos Greece GRE 2.22 —
=9 Younes Ayachi Algeria ALG 2.22 —
=9 Romaine Beckford Jamaica JAM 2.22 —
=11 Christian Falocchi Italy ITA 2.17 —
=11 Naoto Hasegawa Japan JPN 2.17 —
12 finalists 10 countries — $88,000

Everyone from 7th down carries a dash because the ladder stops at 6th: six of the twelve athletes here went home with nothing from the prize fund. The six paid places came to $88,000.

The 2025 final

Nanjing, 21 to 23 March 2025

$88,000 paid
The men's high jump final at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships, with what each place paid.
POS ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK PRIZE
1 Woo Sang-hyeok South Korea KOR 2.31 $40,000
2 Hamish Kerr New Zealand NZL 2.28 $20,000
3 Raymond Richards Jamaica JAM 2.28 $10,000
4 Elijah Kosiba United States USA 2.28 $8,000
5 Oleh Doroshchuk Ukraine UKR 2.28 $6,000
6 Manuel Lando Italy ITA 2.24 $4,000
7 Naoto Hasegawa Japan JPN 2.20 —
8 Jonathan Kapitolnik Israel ISR 2.20 —
=9 Romaine Beckford Jamaica JAM 2.14 —
=9 Luis Castro Rivera Puerto Rico PUR 2.14 —
=9 Dmytro Nikitin Ukraine UKR 2.14 —
=9 Jan Štefela Czechia CZE 2.14 —
13 Souta Haraguchi Japan JPN 2.14 —
13 finalists 10 countries — $88,000

Everyone from 7th down carries a dash because the ladder stops at 6th: seven of the thirteen athletes here went home with nothing from the prize fund. The six paid places came to $88,000.

What each place is worth

The ladder, and who has taken each rung of it

$88,000 an event
The men's high jump prize ladder at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
PLACE PAYS TORUŃ 2026NANJING 2025
1st $40,000 Oleh Doroshchuk Woo Sang-hyeok
2nd $20,000 Erick Portillo Hamish Kerr
3rd $10,000 Raymond Richards and Woo Sang-hyeok Raymond Richards
4th $8,000 went into the tie for 3rd Elijah Kosiba
5th $6,000 Tomohiro Shinno Oleh Doroshchuk
6th $4,000 Jan Štefela Manuel Lando
The event $88,000 $88,000 paid $88,000 paid
Oleh Doroshchuk $40k Erick Portillo $20k Raymond Richards $9,000 Woo Sang-hyeok $9,000 Tomohiro Shinno $6,000 Jan Štefela $4,000

The winner takes 45% of what the event pays out and the other five places share the rest. That shape is the same in every event on the indoor programme, relays included, so the chart is the championship's ladder rather than anything particular to the men's high jump.

What this field earns the rest of the year

The same athletes on the Diamond League money list

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What the athletes paid in this event have earned across the Diamond League.
ATHLETE INDOORS TOKYO DL STARTS DL WINS DIAMOND LEAGUE
Woo Sang-hyeok South Korea $49,000 $35,000 12 4 $103,750
Oleh Doroshchuk Ukraine $46,000 $16,000 11 2 $76,250
Erick Portillo Mexico $20,000 — 6 0 $11,583
Hamish Kerr New Zealand $20,000 $70,000 24 7 $134,750
Raymond Richards Jamaica $19,000 — 6 0 $8,500
Elijah Kosiba United States $8,000 — 2 0 $2,500
Tomohiro Shinno Japan $6,000 — 5 0 $7,667
Jan Štefela Czechia $4,000 $22,000 12 0 $15,958
Manuel Lando Italy $4,000 — 2 0 $2,250

Three days in March against careers of Diamond League meetings. The series runs fifteen times a summer and pays six places at a fraction of these rates, which is why an indoor title is one of the larger single cheques in this field's year. The Tokyo column is the outdoor World Championships, where the same ladder runs eight places deep and a title pays $70,000.

Frequently asked questions

How much does the men's high jump pay at the World Indoor Championships?

The event carries $88,000, split six ways: $40,000 to the winner, $20,000 for second and $10,000 for third, down to $4,000 for 6th. In Toruń that came to $88,000.

Who won the men's high jump at the 2026 World Indoor Championships?

Oleh Doroshchuk, with 2.30, for $40,000. Twelve athletes contested the final in Toruń, from ten countries.

Does the men's high jump pay the same as every other indoor event?

Yes. Every event on the programme carries the same $88,000, and so does every relay, which makes the indoor championships the one meeting in athletics where a team of four and a single athlete are paid the same figure. Across 53 finals that comes to $4,664,000.

How many places does the men's high jump pay indoors?

Six. The ladder runs $40,000, $20,000, $10,000, $8,000, $6,000, $4,000, and 7th pays nothing. Six of the twelve athletes in the 2026 final went home with nothing from the prize fund.

Is there a bonus for a world record in the men's high jump?

No. The indoor card is the ladder and nothing else, so a world record is worth the place it won and not a dollar more. Outdoors a world record adds $100,000 on top of the place money.

What happened to the tie for 3rd?

Raymond Richards and Woo Sang-hyeok could not be separated for 3rd, so they took $9,000 each. Athletes level for a place share the money of that place and of the ones below it they fill: sharing rather than repeating is what keeps six rungs adding up to the $88,000 the event carries.

Did anyone in this final win indoor money elsewhere?

Woo Sang-hyeok has taken $49,000 from two paid finishes, Oleh Doroshchuk has taken $46,000 from two paid finishes, Raymond Richards has taken $19,000 from two paid finishes.

Where to next

The rest of the championships

Indoor Championships prize money holds all 53 finals, the 233 athletes who were paid and the $4,664,000 that was put up. World Championships prize money is the outdoor version, where a title pays $70,000 and the ladder runs eight deep, and Diamond League prize money is the series most of this field races all summer.

Every other event on the indoor programme