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WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS · TORUŃ 2026 · FIELD

Men's shot put indoor prize money

Tom Walsh won the men's shot put at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships with 21.82 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.

17 athletes contested the final in Toruń, from fourteen 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. 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 17
COUNTRIES 14
PAID ACROSS TWO FINALS $176,000

The 2026 final

Toruń, 20 to 22 March 2026

$88,000 paid
The men's shot put final at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships, with what each place paid.
POS ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK PRIZE
1 Tom Walsh New Zealand NZL 21.82 $40,000
2 Jordan Geist United States USA 21.64 $20,000
3 Roger Steen United States USA 21.49 $10,000
4 Scott Lincoln Great Britain GBR 21.13 $8,000
5 Wictor Petersson Sweden SWE 21.12 $6,000
6 Josh Awotunde United States USA 20.96 $4,000
7 Leonardo Fabbri Italy ITA 20.92 —
8 Konrad Bukowiecki Poland POL 20.62 —
9 Nick Ponzio Italy ITA 20.37 —
10 Uziel Muñoz Mexico MEX 20.30 —
11 Chukwuebuka Enekwechi Nigeria NGR 20.04 —
12 Andrei Rares Toader Romania ROU 19.91 —
13 Welington Morais Brazil BRA 19.91 —
14 Marcus Thomsen Norway NOR 19.41 —
15 Aiden Smith South Africa RSA 19.07 —
16 Giorgi Mujaridze Georgia GEO 19.03 —
17 Alexandr Mazur Moldova MDA —
17 finalists 14 countries — $88,000

Everyone from 7th down carries a dash because the ladder stops at 6th: eleven of the 17 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 shot put final at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships, with what each place paid.
POS ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK PRIZE
1 Tom Walsh New Zealand NZL 21.65 m $40,000
2 Roger Steen United States USA 21.62 m $20,000
3 Adrian Piperi United States USA 21.48 m $10,000
4 Leonardo Fabbri Italy ITA 21.36 m $8,000
5 Chukwuebuka Enekwechi Nigeria NGR 21.25 m $6,000
6 Wictor Petersson Sweden SWE 20.87 m $4,000
7 Andrei Toader Romania ROU 20.64 m —
8 Zane Weir Italy ITA 20.63 m —
9 Rajindra Campbell Jamaica JAM 20.45 m —
10 Willian Dourado Brazil BRA 20.24 m —
11 Welington Morais Brazil BRA 20.13 m —
12 Scott Lincoln Great Britain GBR 19.88 m —
13 Xing Jialiang China CHN 19.76 m —
14 Chris van Niekerk South Africa RSA 19.47 m —
— Konrad Bukowiecki Poland POL NM —
15 finalists 12 countries — $88,000

Everyone from 7th down carries a dash because the ladder stops at 6th: nine of the fifteen 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 shot put prize ladder at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
PLACE PAYS TORUŃ 2026NANJING 2025
1st $40,000 Tom Walsh Tom Walsh
2nd $20,000 Jordan Geist Roger Steen
3rd $10,000 Roger Steen Adrian Piperi
4th $8,000 Scott Lincoln Leonardo Fabbri
5th $6,000 Wictor Petersson Chukwuebuka Enekwechi
6th $4,000 Josh Awotunde Wictor Petersson
The event $88,000 $88,000 paid $88,000 paid
Tom Walsh $40k Jordan Geist $20k Roger Steen $10k Scott Lincoln $8,000
Wictor Petersson $6,000
Josh Awotunde $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 shot put.

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
Tom Walsh New Zealand $80,000 $16,000 33 6 $195,000
Roger Steen United States $30,000 — 15 0 $26,250
Jordan Geist United States $20,000 — 8 1 $41,000
Adrian Piperi United States $10,000 $7,000 15 0 $31,750
Leonardo Fabbri Italy $8,000 $22,000 24 5 $135,000
Scott Lincoln Great Britain $8,000 $5,000 3 0 $2,000
Chukwuebuka Enekwechi Nigeria $6,000 $11,000 14 0 $24,750
Josh Awotunde United States $4,000 $6,000 7 0 $6,500

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 shot put 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 shot put at the 2026 World Indoor Championships?

Tom Walsh, with 21.82, for $40,000. 17 athletes contested the final in Toruń, from fourteen countries.

Does the men's shot put 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 shot put pay indoors?

Six. The ladder runs $40,000, $20,000, $10,000, $8,000, $6,000, $4,000, and 7th pays nothing. Eleven of the 17 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 shot put?

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.

Has anybody won the men's shot put at both indoor championships?

Tom Walsh won it in 2025 and 2026, which is $80,000 from two afternoons' work and puts them at the top of the indoor money list.

Did anyone in this final win indoor money elsewhere?

Tom Walsh has taken $80,000 from two paid finishes, Roger Steen has taken $30,000 from two paid finishes, Wictor Petersson has taken $10,000 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