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WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS · TORUŃ 2026 · TRACK

Women's 800 metres indoor prize money

Keely Hodgkinson won the women's 800 metres at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in 1:55.30 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.

Six athletes contested the final in Toruń, from six 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 6
COUNTRIES 6
PAID ACROSS TWO FINALS $176,000

The 2026 final

Toruń, 20 to 22 March 2026

$88,000 paid
The women's 800 metres final at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships, with what each place paid.
POS ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK PRIZE
1 Keely Hodgkinson Great Britain GBR 1:55.30 $40,000
2 Audrey Werro Switzerland SUI 1:56.64 $20,000
3 Addison Wiley United States USA 1:58.36 $10,000
4 Nigist Getachew Ethiopia ETH 1:59.73 $8,000
5 Hayley Kitching Australia AUS 2:00.50 $6,000
6 Clara Liberman France FRA 2:03.30 $4,000
6 finalists 6 countries — $88,000

The six paid places came to $88,000.

The 2025 final

Nanjing, 21 to 23 March 2025

$88,000 paid
The women's 800 metres final at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships, with what each place paid.
POS ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK PRIZE
1 Prudence Sekgodiso South Africa RSA 1:58.40 $40,000
2 Nigist Getachew Ethiopia ETH 1:59.63 $20,000
3 Patricia Silva Portugal POR 1:59.80 $10,000
4 Audrey Werro Switzerland SUI 1:59.81 $8,000
5 Anna Wielgosz Poland POL 2:00.34 $6,000
6 Tsige Duguma Ethiopia ETH 2:04.76 $4,000
6 finalists 5 countries — $88,000

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 women's 800 metres prize ladder at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
PLACE PAYS TORUŃ 2026NANJING 2025
1st $40,000 Keely Hodgkinson Prudence Sekgodiso
2nd $20,000 Audrey Werro Nigist Getachew
3rd $10,000 Addison Wiley Patricia Silva
4th $8,000 Nigist Getachew Audrey Werro
5th $6,000 Hayley Kitching Anna Wielgosz
6th $4,000 Clara Liberman Tsige Duguma
The event $88,000 $88,000 paid $88,000 paid
Keely Hodgkinson $40k Audrey Werro $20k Addison Wiley $10k Nigist Getachew $8,000
Hayley Kitching $6,000
Clara Liberman $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 women's 800 metres.

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
Keely Hodgkinson Great Britain $40,000 $22,000 20 9 $170,500
Prudence Sekgodiso South Africa $40,000 — 17 2 $60,000
Audrey Werro Switzerland $28,000 $7,000 15 7 $191,500
Nigist Getachew Ethiopia $28,000 — 6 0 $4,000
Addison Wiley United States $10,000 — 16 1 $58,000
Patricia Silva Portugal $10,000 — 3 0 $4,000
Anna Wielgosz Poland $6,000 — 2 0 $2,000
Clara Liberman France $4,000 — 2 0 $1,000
Tsige Duguma Ethiopia $4,000 — 10 4 $73,250

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 women's 800 metres 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 women's 800 metres at the 2026 World Indoor Championships?

Keely Hodgkinson, in 1:55.30, for $40,000. Six athletes contested the final in Toruń, from six countries.

Does the women's 800 metres 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 women's 800 metres 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 women's 800 metres?

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.

Did anyone in this final win indoor money elsewhere?

Audrey Werro has taken $28,000 from two paid finishes, Nigist Getachew has taken $28,000 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