Prize money in the Wanda Diamond League will increase to its highest ever level from the 2025 season onwards, cementing the league’s status as athletics premier one-day series.

Following a decision by the Diamond League General Assembly on Sunday, the total amount of prize money paid over the course of the season will increase to 9,240,000 US dollars in 2025.

The new total is almost a third higher than the sum paid during the Pandemic-affected period of 2021-2024, and the highest ever since the Diamond League’s Launch in 2010. 

Including promotional fees for top athletes, a total of around 18 million US dollars will be paid to athletes in total over the course of the 2025 season, with many more millions being invested in athlete services  such as travel and transport, accommodation and medical and physio provision.

Under the new structure, the total prize money awarded per meeting will be 500,000 dollars at each of the 14 regular series meetings, and two million, two hundred and forty thousand dollars at the Wanda Diamond League final.

The total prize money per discipline will be between 30,000 dollars and 50,000 dollars at the series meetings and between 60,000 dollars and 100,000 dollars at the final. 

Prize money is entirely gender-equal, with exactly the same rates for male and female athletes, the increase will also apply to all 32 diamond disciplines, benefitting athletes across the full diversity of track and field. 

With 15 meetings in 13 countries on four different continents, the series provides elite athletes from across the globe with a chance to compete at the highest level from April to September.