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Women's 4 × 100 metres relay prize money

Q: How much did the women'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.

Q: 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.

Q: 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.

United States won the women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in 41.75 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 women'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	Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, Twanisha Terry, Kayla White, Sha'Carri Richardson	41.75	$80,000
2	Jamaica	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Tia Clayton, Tina Clayton, Jonielle Smith	41.79	$40,000
3	Germany	Sina Mayer, Rebekka Haase, Sophia Junk, Gina Lückenkemper	41.87	$20,000
4	Great Britain	Dina Asher-Smith, Amy Hunt, Desiree Henry, Daryll Neita	42.07	$16,000
5	Spain	Esperança Cladera, Jaël Bestué, Paula Sevilla, María Isabel Pérez	42.47	$12,000
6	France	Marie-Ange Rimlinger, Sarah Richard, Helene Parisot, Gémima Joseph	42.81	$8,000
7	Canada	Sade McCreath, Jacqueline Madogo, Marie-Éloïse Leclair, Audrey Leduc	42.82	$6,000
—	Poland	Magdalena Niemczyk, Pia Skrzyszowska, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, Ewa Swoboda	DQ	—
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 women'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	Jamaica	$40,000
3rd	$20,000	Germany	$20,000
4th	$16,000	Great Britain	$16,000
5th	$12,000	Spain	$12,000
6th	$8,000	France	$8,000
7th	$6,000	Canada	$6,000
8th	$4,000	nobody finished 8th	—
The event	$186,000
seven paid	$182,000

United States $80k
Jamaica $40k
Germany $20k
Great Britain $16k
Spain $12k
France $8,000
Canada $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 women'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 women'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 women's 4 × 100 metres relay in Tokyo?

United States, in 41.75 (Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, Twanisha Terry, Kayla White, Sha'Carri Richardson), 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 women'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.