Addisu Yihune prize money
Addisu Yihune has been paid $33,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 835th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from five paid finishes in the men's 5000 m and men's 3000 m, two of them wins.
The Diamond League pays by finishing place and nothing else. A published card sets what first through eighth is worth, the same figure in every discipline at that meeting, and ninth pays nothing.
Every payment
Where he finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bislett Games 2026 | 5000 m | 1st | $20,000 |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2026 | 5000 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2026 | 5000 m | 12th | - |
| Doha Diamond League 2025 | 5000 m | 10th | - |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2024 | 5000 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Bislett Games 2024 | 5000 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2024 | 3000 m | 10th | - |
| Meeting de Paris 2022 | 5000 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Bauhausgalan 2022 | 3000 m | 11th | - |
| All nine | two disciplines | - | $33,750 |
The five paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $33,750 is five separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.03% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Four of the nine starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The Ultimate Championship
What Addisu Yihune did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 metres | - | DNF | - |
Addisu Yihune stood in one Ultimate Championship final in Budapest and finished outside the money. World Athletics pays the first three in each event, $150,000, $75,000 and $40,000, and publishes no rate below third, so there is no figure to put against where he finished. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
The World Indoor Championships
What Addisu Yihune did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 3000 metres | 8th | 7:38.60 | - |
Addisu Yihune stood in one World Indoor Championships final and finished outside the money. The championships pay six places, $40,000 for a title down to $4,000 for 6th, and nothing at all below that. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Addisu Yihune
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 m | 7 | 2 | 2022 to 2026 | $33,750 |
| Men's 3000 m | 2 | - | 2022 to 2024 | $0 |
The men's 5000 m has paid Addisu Yihune $33,750 of the $33,750, which is 100% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2022 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | - | Meeting de Paris | $1,250 |
| 2023 | - | - | - | - |
| 2024 | 3 | - | Xiamen Diamond League | $2,500 |
| 2025 | 1 | - | Doha Diamond League | - |
| 2026 | 3 | 2 | Bislett Games | $30,000 |
season running total
2026 is the biggest of them, $30,000 from three starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Addisu Yihune in 2023 and 2025, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $33,750.
Around Addisu Yihune on the money list
Ranks 815 to 855
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 815 | Cindy Roleder | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $35,000 |
| 816 | Nick Willis | four disciplines | - | $35,000 |
| 817 | Xinglong Gao | Men's long jump | 2 | $35,000 |
| 818 | Brad Walker | Men's pole vault | - | $34,750 |
| 819 | Catriona Bisset | Women's 800 m | - | $34,750 |
| 820 | Charles Simotwo | two disciplines | - | $34,750 |
| 821 | Irina Gordeyeva | Women's high jump | - | $34,750 |
| 822 | Ryuji Miura | two disciplines | - | $34,750 |
| 823 | Alexandria Anderson | two disciplines | - | $34,500 |
| 824 | Mamadou Kassé Hann | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $34,500 |
| 825 | Mimi Belete | two disciplines | - | $34,500 |
| 826 | Andreas Almgren | four disciplines | 1 | $34,250 |
| 827 | Chala Beyo | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $34,250 |
| 828 | Claudine Vita | Women's discus throw | - | $34,250 |
| 829 | Gina Lückenkemper | two disciplines | - | $34,250 |
| 830 | Benjamin Robert | two disciplines | 1 | $34,000 |
| 831 | Doris Lemngole | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $34,000 |
| 832 | Mercy Wanjiku Njoroge | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $34,000 |
| 833 | Nicholas Kiptanui Bett | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $34,000 |
| 834 | Yanis Meziane | Men's 800 m | - | $34,000 |
| 835 | Addisu Yihune | two disciplines | 2 | $33,750 |
| 836 | Jaroslav Bába | Men's high jump | 1 | $33,750 |
| 837 | Airinė Palšytė | Women's high jump | 1 | $33,500 |
| 838 | Alfred Kipketer | two disciplines | 1 | $33,500 |
| 839 | Collins Cheboi | two disciplines | - | $33,500 |
| 840 | Gift Leotlela | Men's 100 m | 1 | $33,500 |
| 841 | James Kiplagat Magut | two disciplines | - | $33,500 |
| 842 | Katharina Molitor | Women's javelin throw | - | $33,500 |
| 843 | Mohamed Attaoui | two disciplines | 1 | $33,500 |
| 844 | Tyrone Smith | Men's long jump | - | $33,500 |
| 845 | Benjamin Kiplagat | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $33,000 |
| 846 | Brittany Smith | Women's shot put | - | $33,000 |
| 847 | Eliud Kipchoge | two disciplines | 1 | $33,000 |
| 848 | Elliot Giles | three disciplines | - | $33,000 |
| 849 | Georgia Griffith | three disciplines | 1 | $33,000 |
| 850 | Ihab Abdelrahman | Men's javelin throw | 4 | $33,000 |
| 851 | Jiřina Ptáčníková | Women's pole vault | - | $33,000 |
| 852 | Kurt Roberts | Men's shot put | 1 | $33,000 |
| 853 | Meraf Bahta | three disciplines | - | $33,000 |
| 854 | Michael Frater | Men's 100 m | - | $33,000 |
| 855 | O'Dayne Richards | Men's shot put | - | $33,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Addisu Yihune is 835th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $33,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Addisu Yihune most
Bislett Games 2026 paid $20,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of sixteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Birhanu Balew, Andreas Almgren, Parker Wolfe, Grant Fisher, Graham Blanks and Mezgebu Sime.
Xiamen Diamond League 2026 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of sixteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Mohamed Abdilaahi, Biniam Mehary, Eduardo Herrera, Edwin Kurgat, Khairi Bejiga and Birhanu Balew.
Xiamen Diamond League 2024 paid $1,250 for 5th in the 5000 m, one of 18 in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Cornelius Kemboi, Ronald Kwemoi, Kuma Girma, Benson Kiplangat, Stewart McSweyn and Muktar Edris.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Addisu Yihune won?
$33,750, which ranks 835th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from five paid finishes between 2022 and 2026.
What is Addisu Yihune's biggest Diamond League payday?
$20,000, for finishing 1st in the Diamond+ 5000 m at the 2026 Bislett Games. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 1st and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Addisu Yihune gets paid?
Entirely by where he finishes. The series publishes one rate card a season and applies it to every discipline at every meeting, so a win is worth the same in the men's 5000 m as it is in the shot put on the same afternoon. Eight places are paid and ninth pays nothing. There is no bonus for a record and no share of a gate.
How many Diamond League meetings has Addisu Yihune won?
Two of nine, worth $30,000 between them. He has not been paid at a Diamond League final.
Has Addisu Yihune ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Four times. The series pays the first eight and the fields run past twenty, so a ninth place is a Diamond League start that paid nothing at all. Those starts are in the result tables on this site either way.
Is this everything Addisu Yihune earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. It holds no championship prize money, no national federation payment, no appearance fee and no sponsorship. What it does hold is every dollar the series itself paid him, priced off the card it published.
Where to next
The rest of the Diamond League money
Diamond League prize money ranks all 3,683 athletes across the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Addisu Yihune is Yanis Meziane on $34,000, and one below Jaroslav Bába on $33,750. Addisu Yihune is one of 147 Ethiopia athletes athletics has paid, and Ethiopia athletics prize money adds them up to $5,789,000 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 5000 m prize money and men's 3000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Addisu Yihune has been paid in two of them. The biggest of the rest are men's 100 m, men's pole vault and men's 800 m. Every meeting he has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Bislett Games has its own page across every edition of it. Ultimate Championship prize money is the 2026 championship in Budapest, $10,000,000 over three days, and the full final is on the men's 5000 metres page. Indoor championships prize money is the Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026 championships, $4,664,000 put up across 53 finals, and the indoor final is on the men's 3000 metres page.