World Athletics Indoor Championships prize money

Every event carries $88,000, split six places deep. Toruń 2026 ran 27 events for $2,376,000 and Nanjing 2025 ran 26 for $2,288,000, so the two championships put up $4,664,000 between them and paid out $4,632,000 of it.

$40,000, in every event on the programme. A 60 metres title and a pentathlon title are worth the same, the ladder runs $40,000, $20,000, $10,000, $8,000, $6,000 and $4,000 down to 6th, and a winning relay team takes the same $40,000 as a single athlete.

Yes, and this is the only championship where they do. A winning quartet takes $40,000 and so does a winning individual, with the same $20,000 for second and $4,000 for 6th on both ladders. Outdoors a relay title is worth $80,000 against an individual's $70,000. The purse still goes to the team as one payment, and how a federation divides it between the four who ran is its own business.

Six places. 6th is worth $4,000 and 7th is worth nothing, which on a 17-strong shot put final leaves most of the field with nothing from the prize fund. Across two championships the ladder paid 314 times.

Andy Díaz, on $80,000 from two paid finishes. Six athletes won the same event at both championships and each of them is on the same $80,000: Andy Díaz, Armand Duplantis, Devynne Charlton, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Leyanis Pérez and Tom Walsh. 52 of the 233 athletes were paid at both.

No. The card is the ladder and nothing else. Simon Ehammer and Devynne Charlton set world records in Toruń and each took the winner's $40,000, the same as every other champion on the programme. Outdoors a world record is worth $100,000 on top of the place money.

They share the money of the places they occupy between them. Angelina Topić, Nicola Olyslagers and Yuliya Levchenko all cleared 1.99 in the women's high jump in 2026, so the $20,000, $10,000 and $8,000 for 2nd, 3rd and 4th came to $12,667 each. There were four shared places across the two championships, every one of them a high jump or a pole vault.

The United States, on $903,000 from 55 payments and 11 wins, out of 57 countries paid at all. 47 of the 233 athletes paid individually were American.

Four rungs of the ladder had nobody on them. The biggest is $20,000: the women's 1500 metres in Nanjing was won, third and fourth were filled, and 2nd was struck out and never reallocated, so the 2nd money stayed where it was. The other three are 6th place in a relay that only five teams finished.