The Diamond League Athletics will increase financial awards in 2025 to the highest level in history, more than nine million dollars, which is almost a third more than the amount paid during the pandemic-affected period from 2021 to 2024.
The Diamond League will increase prize money for athletes to the highest level in the history of the series starting next season, as approved by the organization’s General Assembly, which is estimated at $9,240,000.
That figure is nearly a third higher than the amount paid during the pandemic-affected 2021 to 2024 period and the highest since the launch of the Diamond League in 2010.
Including promotional fees for top athletes, approximately $18 million will be paid to athletes during the 2025 season and many more millions will be invested in athlete services such as travel and transportation, accommodation and catering.
Under the new structure, the total prize money awarded per match will be $500,000 in each of the fourteen regular season games and $2,240,000 in the series finale. Diamond League.
Total prize money per discipline is between $30,000 and $50,000 in series meetings and between $60,000 and $100,000 in the final.
Prize money is completely equal between men and women with exactly the same rates for male and female athletes. The increase will also apply to 32 disciplines diamondwhich will benefit athletes from all variations of athletics.
With fifteen meetings in thirteen countries on four different continents, the series offers elite athletes from around the world the opportunity to compete at the highest level from April to September.
Since 2010, the series and its events have invested approximately $270 million in athletes, including $180 million in promotional fees and prize money and approximately $90 million in athlete services.
“The Diamond League remains committed to rewarding athletes more while ensuring the long-term continuity of the series, so that it continues to offer valuable competition to athletes for many years to come,” said Petr Stastny, event executive director.
“In an ever-changing landscape in the world of sports, media and entertainment, we are always at the forefront of innovation in our sport of athletics. With a total of 32 disciplines per season, we give the best athletes in the world the opportunity to compete at the highest level possible. “Having competitors from around one hundred countries each year allows for television audiences in 150 countries and territories, making our series a truly universal and global league,” he added.
Source: La Verdad
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