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ULTIMATE CHAMPIONSHIP · BUDAPEST 2026 · MIXED RELAY

Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay prize money

United States won the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2026 Ultimate Championship in 3:08.32 and shared $80,000. The purse goes to the quartet as one payment, and nothing below it is published.

Nine teams lined up in the final, from nine countries. The championship put up $10,000,000 in all and pays every athlete in it out of that, so the teams behind them were paid too, at rates World Athletics has not published.

THE QUARTET TOOK $80,000
THIS FINAL PAID $80,000
TEAMS 9
COUNTRIES 9
PLACES PAID 1

The final

Budapest, 11 to 13 September 2026

$80,000 paid
The mixed 4 × 400 metres relay final at the 2026 Ultimate Championship, with what each place paid.
POS TEAM THE QUARTET TIME PRIZE
1 United States Chris Bailey, Alexis Holmes, Jacory Patterson, Aaliyah Butler 3:08.32 $80,000
2 Great Britain Ben Jefferies, Yemi Mary John, Toby Harries, Charlotte Henrich 3:09.40 —
3 Netherlands Jonas Phijffers, Lieke Klaver, Keenan Blake, Myrte van der Schoot 3:09.57 —
4 Belgium Jonathan Sacoor, Helena Ponette, Daniel Segers, Camille Laus 3:10.85 —
5 Norway Karsten Warholm, Amalie Iuel, Håvard Bentdal Ingvaldsen, Henriette Jæger 3:11.31 —
6 Jamaica Zandrion Barnes, Shana Kaye Anderson, Assinie Wilson, Stacey-Ann Williams 3:11.46 —
7 Italy Edoardo Scotti, Anna Polinari, Lorenzo Benati, Alessandra Bonora 3:11.56 —
8 Hungary Patrik Simon Enyingi, Lili Hanna Brucker, Attila Molnár, Sophia Akuchi Emmanuel 3:16.73 —
9 Kenya Boniface Mweresa, Mercy Chebet, Kelvin Tonui, Lanoline Aoko 3:18.42 —
9 teams 9 countries — $80,000
An event win $150k
A winning quartet $80k
Second in an event $75k
Third in an event $40k

A relay win is worth about half what the same championship pays one athlete for winning an event, and it is shared by four. The $80,000 is paid to the team as one purse. Below that the championship still pays. $10,000,000 went in and $7,090,000 of it is on the published card, so the teams who finished outside the places above were paid out of the rest.

Everyone who ran the relay

All 36 of them, across the 9 teams

$80,000 to the winners

A quartet is named on the result table in running order. Only the winning team is paid a purse that World Athletics publishes, and it is paid to the team: the four shares of it are not broken out.

Frequently asked questions

How much did the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay pay at the 2026 Ultimate Championship?

$80,000, all of it to the winning quartet. A relay purse is paid to the team and the four shares are not published.

Who won the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay in Budapest?

United States, in 3:08.32 (Chris Bailey, Alexis Holmes, Jacory Patterson, Aaliyah Butler), for $80,000. Nine teams lined up in the final from nine countries, and nine finished with a mark.

What did second and third pay?

Nothing that World Athletics publishes. The card names one figure for a relay, $80,000 to the winning quartet, and the rest of the field is paid out of the $10,000,000 pot at rates it keeps to itself.

How many places does the Ultimate Championship pay?

One in a relay, and three in an individual event, out of a $10,000,000 pot that every athlete in the championship takes a share of. Across all 28 events that published card accounts for $7,090,000, and the $2,910,000 below it is not broken down anywhere.

Where to next

The rest of the championship

Ultimate Championship prize money holds all 28 events, the 76 athletes who were paid and the $10,000,000 that was put up. 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 in Budapest

Every event at the World Relays