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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS · TOKYO 2025 · RELAY

Men's 4 × 100 metres relay prize money

United States won the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in 37.29 and took $80,000. Second was worth $40,000 and third $20,000, and the money ran eight deep, so the final paid $182,000 in all.

Eight teams ran the final. One of them did not finish with a place. The championships put up $8,498,000 in Tokyo and spread it eight places deep in every event, which is deeper than any other meeting in athletics pays. Nobody finished 8th, so $4,000 of what this event carries was never handed over.

THE WINNING TEAM TOOK $80,000
THIS FINAL PAID $182,000
TEAMS 8
THE EVENT CARRIES $186,000
PLACES PAID 7

The final

Tokyo, 13 to 21 September 2025

$182,000 paid
The men's 4 × 100 metres relay final at the 2025 World Athletics Championships, with what each place paid.
POS TEAM THE TEAM TIME PRIZE
1 United States Christian Coleman, Kenneth Bednarek, Courtney Lindsey, Noah Lyles 37.29 $80,000
2 Canada Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney, Andre De Grasse 37.55 $40,000
3 Netherlands Nsikak Ekpo, Taymir Burnet, Xavi Mo-Ajok, Elvis Afrifa 37.81 $20,000
4 Ghana Ibrahim Fuseini, Benjamin Azamati, Joseph Amoah, Abdul-Rasheed Saminu 37.93 $16,000
5 Germany Julian Wagner, Marvin Schulte, Owen Ansah, Lucas Ansah-Peprah 38.29 $12,000
6 Japan Yuki Koike, Hiroki Yanagita, Yoshihide Kiryu, Towa Uzawa 38.35 $8,000
7 France Ryan Zeze, Jeff Erius, Lenny Chanteur, Aymeric Priam 38.58 $6,000
— Australia Connor Bond, Jacob Despard, Calab Law, Rohan Browning DNF —
8 teams 16 countries — $182,000

The seven paid places came to $182,000, short of the $186,000 the event carries because 8th was not filled.

What each place was worth

The ladder, and what this final actually handed over

$186,000 an event
The men's 4 × 100 metres relay prize ladder at the World Athletics Championships.
PLACE THE LADDER WHO TOOK IT PAID
1st $80,000 United States $80,000
2nd $40,000 Canada $40,000
3rd $20,000 Netherlands $20,000
4th $16,000 Ghana $16,000
5th $12,000 Germany $12,000
6th $8,000 Japan $8,000
7th $6,000 France $6,000
8th $4,000 nobody finished 8th —
The event $186,000
seven paid $182,000
United States $80k
Canada $40k
Netherlands $20k
Ghana $16k
Germany $12k
Japan $8,000
France $6,000

The winner takes 43% of what the event pays out and the other seven places share the rest. That shape is the same in every relay on the programme, so the chart is the championship's ladder rather than anything particular to the men's 4 × 100 metres relay.

Everyone who ran the relay

All 32 of them, across the 8 teams in the final

$80,000 to the winners

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 eight paid places, from $80,000 for the win down to $4,000 for 8th, and the split between the four is not published.

Frequently asked questions

How much did the men's 4 × 100 metres relay pay at the 2025 World Championships?

$182,000, across seven paid places: $80,000 to United States, $40,000 for second and $20,000 for third, down to $4,000 for 8th. One place was not filled, so $4,000 of the $186,000 the event carries went unpaid.

Who won the men's 4 × 100 metres relay in Tokyo?

United States, in 37.29 (Christian Coleman, Kenneth Bednarek, Courtney Lindsey, Noah Lyles), for $80,000. Eight teams ran the final. One of them did not finish with a place.

What did second and third pay?

$40,000 and $20,000. The same ladder covers every relay at the championships, so this final paid exactly what every other relay did.

How many places does the men's 4 × 100 metres relay pay?

Eight. The ladder runs $80,000, $40,000, $20,000, $16,000, $12,000, $8,000, $6,000, $4,000, which is $186,000 for the event, and below 8th it pays nothing. Across all 49 events that comes to the $8,498,000 World Athletics put up for Tokyo.

Do the four runners split the prize money?

Not in any way World Athletics publishes. The $80,000 is paid 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

World Championships prize money holds all 49 events, the 334 athletes who were paid and the $8,498,000 that was put up. Diamond League prize money is the series most of this field races all summer, and the Ultimate Championship is the one meeting that pays more for a win. 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.

Every other event in Tokyo

Every event at the World Relays