Amusan, Brume, Enekwechi may earn more at 2025 Diamond League

Three-time Wanda Diamond League winner, Tobi Amusan, and finalists, Ese Brume, as well as Chukwuebuka Enekwechi may earn more from the athletics’ elite one-day meeting series in 2025 following move by the organisers to ‘adopt a new prize money structure with larger rewards.’

While individual athletes will continue to win up to $10,000 at series meetings and up to $30,000 at the Wanda Diamond League Final, there will, however, be a ‘select number of Diamond+ Disciplines, in which athletes can earn higher prize money.’

In these disciplines, organisers say the maximum prize money for individual athletes will rise to $20,000 at series meetings and $50,000 at the Final.

“There will be four (two male and two female) Diamond+ Disciplines at each series meeting and eight (four male and four female) at the Final. Each meeting will announce their Diamond+ Disciplines in the first half of 2025,’ wrote the Diamond League organizers on the competition’s website.

According to SportsNow.com, Amusan may earn more money if the ever competitive 100m hurdles, which saw 12 athletes running inside 12.40 with two breaking 12.30.

In all disciplines, prize money will also increase – and in some cases double – for athletes finishing lower than second. In addition, athletes finishing between 9th and 12th will now also receive fixed prize money in all disciplines (both track and field) at both series meetings and at the Final.

The new season will see a total of $9.24 million paid out in prize money, the highest total pot in the series’ history. Including promotional fees for top athletes, a total of around $18 million will be paid to athletes in total over the course of the 2025 season.

Meanwhile, despite not making it to her second straight 100m hurdles final at the Olympics, reigning world record holder, Tobi Amusan is poised to end the 2024 calendar year as Nigeria’s top ranked female athlete while Shot Putter, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi will be the top ranked man.

Amusan, with a ranking score of 1341 points garnered from running in the 100m hurdles and 60m hurdles events, will end a calendar year as the top ranked Nigerian woman for the sixth straight year while Enekwechi is also repeating as the country’s number one man for the sixth year in a row.

Paris 2024 Olympics 200m finalist, Favour Ofili is going to be ranked the second best, ahead of long jumper, Ese Brume who had been second behind Amusan in 2023 and 2022 with the 28-year-old World Indoor, Outdoor and Olympic medalist expected to drop to third.

Ruth Usoro and Prestina Ochonogor will complete the top five for women when the final ranking for the year is released next week. For the men, who else but the incredible and young trio of Samuel Ogazi, Ezekiel Nathaniel and Kayinsola Ajayi will make the top four with Usheoritse Itsekhiri expected to complete the top five.