WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS · TORUŃ 2026 · FIELD

Women's high jump indoor prize money

Q: How much does the women'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.

Q: Who won the women's high jump at the 2026 World Indoor Championships?

Yaroslava Mahuchikh, with 2.01, for $40,000. Eleven athletes contested the final in Toruń, from nine countries.

Q: Does the women'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.

Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the women's high jump at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships with 2.01 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.

Eleven athletes contested the final in Toruń, from nine 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. Angelina Topić, Nicola Olyslagers and Yuliya Levchenko could not be separated for 2nd, so they took the money of 2nd, 3rd and 4th and split it three ways, $12,667 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 11

COUNTRIES 9

PAID ACROSS TWO FINALS $176,000

The 2026 final

Toruń, 20 to 22 March 2026

$88,000 paid

The women's high jump final at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships, with what each place paid.
POS	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	MARK	PRIZE
1	Yaroslava Mahuchikh Ukraine	UKR	2.01	$40,000
=2	Angelina Topić Serbia	SRB	1.99	$12,667
=2	Nicola Olyslagers Australia	AUS	1.99	$12,667
=2	Yuliya Levchenko Ukraine	UKR	1.99	$12,667
5	Maria Żodzik Poland	POL	1.93	$6,000
6	Louise Ekman Sweden	SWE	1.93	$4,000
7	Eleanor Patterson Australia	AUS	1.93	—
8	Imke Onnen Germany	GER	1.89	—
9	Charity Hufnagel United States	USA	1.89	—
=10	Lamara Distin Jamaica	JAM	1.85	—
=10	Marija Vuković Montenegro	MNE	1.85	—
11	finalists	9 countries	—	$88,000

Everyone from 7th down carries a dash because the ladder stops at 6th: five of the eleven 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 women's high jump final at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships, with what each place paid.
POS	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	MARK	PRIZE
1	Nicola Olyslagers Australia	AUS	1.97 m	$40,000
2	Eleanor Patterson Australia	AUS	1.97 m	$20,000
3	Yaroslava Mahuchikh Ukraine	UKR	1.95 m	$10,000
4	Angelina Topić Serbia	SRB	1.95 m	$8,000
5	Charity Hufnagel United States	USA	1.92 m	$6,000
6	Imke Onnen Germany	GER	1.92 m	$4,000
7	Elena Kulichenko Cyprus	CYP	1.92 m	—
8	Idea Pieroni Italy	ITA	1.89 m	—
9	Kateryna Tabashnyk Ukraine	UKR	1.89 m	—
10	Vashti Cunningham United States	USA		—
10	finalists	7 countries	—	$88,000

Everyone from 7th down carries a dash because the ladder stops at 6th: four of the ten 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 women's high jump prize ladder at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
PLACE	PAYS	TORUŃ 2026	NANJING 2025
1st	$40,000	Yaroslava Mahuchikh	Nicola Olyslagers
2nd	$20,000	Angelina Topić, Nicola Olyslagers and Yuliya Levchenko	Eleanor Patterson
3rd	$10,000	went into the tie for 2nd	Yaroslava Mahuchikh
4th	$8,000	went into the tie for 2nd	Angelina Topić
5th	$6,000	Maria Żodzik	Charity Hufnagel
6th	$4,000	Louise Ekman	Imke Onnen
The event	$88,000	$88,000 paid	$88,000 paid

Yaroslava Mahuchikh $40k Angelina Topić $13k Nicola Olyslagers $13k Yuliya Levchenko $13k Maria Żodzik $6,000 Louise Ekman $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 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
Nicola Olyslagers Australia	$52,667	$70,000	29	10	$231,167
Yaroslava Mahuchikh Ukraine	$50,000	$19,000	39	21	$382,250
Angelina Topić Serbia	$20,667	$19,000	19	2	$68,500
Eleanor Patterson Australia	$20,000	$9,000	30	2	$130,750
Yuliya Levchenko Ukraine	$12,667	$9,000	36	1	$102,375
Charity Hufnagel United States	$6,000	—	4	0	$7,250
Maria Żodzik Poland	$6,000	$35,000	8	1	$19,667
Imke Onnen Germany	$4,000	—	7	0	$13,750
Louise Ekman Sweden	$4,000	—	1	0	$1,750

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 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 women's high jump at the 2026 World Indoor Championships?

Yaroslava Mahuchikh, with 2.01, for $40,000. Eleven athletes contested the final in Toruń, from nine countries.

Does the women'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 women'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. Five of the eleven athletes in the 2026 final went home with nothing from the prize fund.

Is there a bonus for a world record in the women'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 2nd?

Angelina Topić, Nicola Olyslagers and Yuliya Levchenko could not be separated for 2nd, so they took $12,667 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?

Nicola Olyslagers has taken $52,667 from two paid finishes, Yaroslava Mahuchikh has taken $50,000 from two paid finishes, Angelina Topić has taken $20,667 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.