Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay indoor prize money
Belgium won the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in 3:15.60 and took $40,000. Second was worth $20,000 and third $10,000, and the money ran six deep, so the final paid $84,000 in all. A winning quartet indoors takes exactly what a winning individual takes, which is true of no other championship in the sport.
Six teams ran the final in Toruń. One of them did not finish with a place. Every event indoors carries the same $88,000, relays included, and the championships put up $2,376,000 across 27 of them in Toruń. nobody was 6th, so $4,000 of what this event carries was never handed over.
The 2026 final
Toruń, 20 to 22 March 2026
| POS | TEAM | THE TEAM | TIME | PRIZE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belgium | Jonathan Sacoor, Ilana Hanssens, Julien Watrin, Helena Ponette | 3:15.60 | $40,000 |
| 2 | Spain | Markel Fernández, Paula Sevilla, David García, Blanca Hervás | 3:16.96 | $20,000 |
| 3 | Poland | Kajetan Duszyński, Anna Gryc, Marcin Karolewski, Justyna Święty-Ersetic | 3:17.44 | $10,000 |
| 4 | Netherlands | Keenan Blake, Myrte van der Schoot, Tony van Diepen, Eveline Saalberg | 3:20.14 | $8,000 |
| 5 | United States | Jevon O'Bryant, Sara Reifenrath, Steven McElroy, Taiya Shelby | 3:21.35 | $6,000 |
| — | Jamaica | Delano Kennedy, Shana Kaye Anderson, Kimar Farquharson, Leah Anderson | DQ | — |
| 6 | teams | 6 countries | — | $84,000 |
The five paid places came to $84,000, short of the $88,000 the event carries because nobody was 6th.
What each place is worth
The ladder, and who has taken each rung of it
| PLACE | PAYS | TORUŃ 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | $40,000 | Belgium |
| 2nd | $20,000 | Spain |
| 3rd | $10,000 | Poland |
| 4th | $8,000 | Netherlands |
| 5th | $6,000 | United States |
| 6th | $4,000 | nobody finished 6th |
| The event | $88,000 | $84,000 paid |
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 mixed 4 × 400 metres relay.
Everyone who ran the relay
All 24 of them, across the one final
- Jonathan Sacoor
- Ilana Hanssens
- Julien Watrin
- Helena Ponette
- Markel Fernández
- Paula Sevilla
- David García
- Blanca Hervás
- Kajetan Duszyński
- Anna Gryc
- Marcin Karolewski
- Justyna Święty-Ersetic
- Keenan Blake
- Myrte van der Schoot
- Tony van Diepen
- Eveline Saalberg
- Jevon O'Bryant
- Sara Reifenrath
- Steven McElroy
- Taiya Shelby
- Delano Kennedy
- Shana Kaye Anderson
- Kimar Farquharson
- Leah Anderson
A team is named on the result table in running order. The purse is paid to the federation as one payment at every one of the six paid places, from $40,000 for the win down to $4,000 for 6th, and the split between the four is not published.
Frequently asked questions
How much does the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay 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 $84,000, because nobody was 6th.
Who won the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2026 World Indoor Championships?
Belgium, in 3:15.60 (Jonathan Sacoor, Ilana Hanssens, Julien Watrin, Helena Ponette), for $40,000. Six teams ran the final in Toruń. One of them did not finish with a place.
Do relay teams earn less than individual athletes indoors?
No, and the indoor championships are the only place that is true. A winning quartet takes $40,000 and so does a winning individual, with the same ladder underneath. Outdoors a relay title is worth $80,000 against a world champion's $70,000.
How many places does the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay pay indoors?
Six. The ladder runs $40,000, $20,000, $10,000, $8,000, $6,000, $4,000, and 7th pays nothing.
Is there a bonus for a world record in the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay?
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.
Do the four runners split the prize money?
Not in any way that is published. The $40,000 goes to the team, and how a federation divides it between the four who ran the final, and the reserves who ran the heats, is its own business.
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. The World Athletics Relays is the one championship in the sport with no individual event on it at all: 12 finals across two editions, $40,000 to the winning team and a ladder that reaches all eight teams in a final. The mixed relay at the World Cross Country Championships is the other mixed race World Athletics pays for: $12,000 to the winning country over four legs on grass, four teams deep, and not a dollar of it to the four who run them.
Every other event on the indoor programme
- Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
- Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
- Men's 1500 metres
- Men's 3000 metres
- Men's 400 metres
- Men's 60 metres
- Men's 60 metres hurdles
- Men's 800 metres
- Men's heptathlon
- Men's high jump
- Men's long jump
- Men's pole vault
- Men's shot put
- Men's triple jump
- Women's 1500 metres
- Women's 3000 metres
- Women's 400 metres
- Women's 60 metres
- Women's 60 metres hurdles
- Women's 800 metres
- Women's high jump
- Women's long jump
- Women's pentathlon
- Women's pole vault
- Women's shot put
- Women's triple jump