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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS · TOKYO 2025 · RELAY

Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay prize money

United States won the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in 3:08.80 and took $80,000. Second was worth $40,000 and third $20,000, and the money ran eight deep, so the final paid $186,000 in all.

Eight teams ran the final. 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.

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

The final

Tokyo, 13 to 21 September 2025

$186,000 paid
The mixed 4 × 400 metres relay final at the 2025 World Athletics Championships, with what each place paid.
POS TEAM THE TEAM TIME PRIZE
1 United States Bryce Deadmon, Lynna Irby-Jackson, Jenoah McKiver, Alexis Holmes 3:08.80 $80,000
2 Netherlands Eugene Omalla, Lieke Klaver, Jonas Phijffers, Femke Bol 3:09.96 $40,000
3 Belgium Dylan Borlée, Imke Vervaet, Alexander Doom, Helena Ponette 3:10.61 $20,000
4 Poland Maksymilian Szwed, Natalia Bukowiecka, Kajetan Duszyński, Justyna Święty-Ersetic 3:10.63 $16,000
5 Great Britain Lewis Davey, Emily Newnham, Toby Harries, Nicole Yeargin 3:10.84 $12,000
6 South Africa Gardeo Isaacs, Shirley Nekhubui, Leendert Koekemoer, Zenéy van der Walt 3:11.89 $8,000
7 Italy Luca Sito, Anna Polinari, Vladimir Aceti, Alice Mangione 3:15.82 $6,000
8 Japan Takuho Yoshizu, Abigeirufuka Ido, Kenki Imaizumi, Nanako Matsumoto $4,000
8 teams 17 countries — $186,000

The eight paid places came to $186,000.

What each place was worth

The ladder, and what this final actually handed over

$186,000 an event
The mixed 4 × 400 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 Netherlands $40,000
3rd $20,000 Belgium $20,000
4th $16,000 Poland $16,000
5th $12,000 Great Britain $12,000
6th $8,000 South Africa $8,000
7th $6,000 Italy $6,000
8th $4,000 Japan $4,000
The event $186,000
eight paid $186,000
United States $80k
Netherlands $40k
Belgium $20k
Poland $16k
Great Britain $12k
South Africa $8,000
Italy $6,000
Japan $4,000

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 mixed 4 × 400 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 mixed 4 × 400 metres relay pay at the 2025 World Championships?

$186,000, across eight paid places: $80,000 to United States, $40,000 for second and $20,000 for third, down to $4,000 for 8th.

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

United States, in 3:08.80 (Bryce Deadmon, Lynna Irby-Jackson, Jenoah McKiver, Alexis Holmes), for $80,000. Eight teams ran the final.

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 mixed 4 × 400 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. 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 Tokyo

Every event at the World Relays