Aleshign Baweke prize money
Aleshign Baweke has been paid $40,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 740th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from nine paid finishes in the women's 5000 m, women's 3000 m and women's 2 miles, one of them a win.
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 she finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prefontaine Classic 2026 | 2 miles | 1st | $10,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2026 | 5000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Herculis EBS 2026 | 3000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2026 | 5000 m | 5th | $2,500 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2025 | 5000 m | 3rd | $6,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2025 | 3000 m | 5th | $5,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2025 | 3000 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2025 | 5000 m | 8th | $1,500 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2025 | 5000 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| All nine | three disciplines | - | $40,000 |
The nine paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $40,000 is nine separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.04% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The Ultimate Championship
What Aleshign Baweke did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 metres | 5th | 14:32.95 | - |
Aleshign Baweke 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 she finished. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
The World Indoor Championships
What Aleshign Baweke did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 3000 metres | 4th | 9:00.26 | $8,000 |
The World Indoor Championships have paid Aleshign Baweke $8,000 for one finish in Toruń 2026, against $40,000 from nine Diamond League starts between 2025 and 2026. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
The World Cross Country Championships
What Aleshign Baweke ran on the grass
| RACE | PLACE | MARK | EARNED | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior women's race | 5th | 32:49 | $5,000 | $20,000 |
The championships have paid Aleshign Baweke $5,000 of her own, for one finish inside the first six. A senior race pays $30,000 to win and $3,000 for 6th, and nothing at all to the seventh runner home. The team she ran on earned Ethiopia $20,000, all of it from a team standing, which is settled on the places of the first four runners a country gets home. It is the federation's money rather than hers, and it is not added to the $40,000 at the top of this page. Shescored alongside Senayet Getachew and Asayech Ayichew, and the Diamond League has paid every one of them too. The cross country page holds all 10 races across two championships and the $620,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Aleshign Baweke
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 m | 5 | - | 2025 to 2026 | $17,500 |
| Women's 3000 m | 3 | - | 2025 to 2026 | $12,500 |
| Women's 2 miles | 1 | 1 | 2026 | $10,000 |
The women's 5000 m has paid Aleshign Baweke $17,500 of the $40,000, which is 44% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2025 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $15,500 |
| 2026 | 4 | 1 | Prefontaine Classic | $24,500 |
season running total
2026 is the biggest of them, $24,500 from four starts. Every season from 2025 to 2026 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $40,000.
Around Aleshign Baweke on the money list
Ranks 720 to 760
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 720 | Martyn Rooney | Men's 400 m | - | $41,500 |
| 721 | Ryan Bailey | two disciplines | 1 | $41,500 |
| 722 | Stephanie Brown-Trafton | Women's discus throw | 1 | $41,500 |
| 723 | Brooke Buschkuehl | Women's long jump | - | $41,250 |
| 724 | Lisa Ryzih | Women's pole vault | - | $41,250 |
| 725 | Andrey Silnov | Men's high jump | 1 | $41,000 |
| 726 | Christopher Bailey | Men's 400 m | 1 | $41,000 |
| 727 | Jordan Geist | Men's shot put | 1 | $41,000 |
| 728 | Mark English | Men's 800 m | 1 | $41,000 |
| 729 | Mbulaeni Mulaudzi | Men's 800 m | 1 | $41,000 |
| 730 | Yuliya Leantsiuk | Women's shot put | - | $41,000 |
| 731 | Zinaida Sendriutė | Women's discus throw | - | $41,000 |
| 732 | Jarrion Lawson | Men's long jump | 1 | $40,750 |
| 733 | Pia Skrzyszowska | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $40,750 |
| 734 | Quanera Hayes | Women's 400 m | 1 | $40,750 |
| 735 | Sara Kolak | Women's javelin throw | 1 | $40,750 |
| 736 | Leonard Bett | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $40,500 |
| 737 | Vadims Vasiļevskis | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $40,500 |
| 738 | Almir dos Santos | Men's triple jump | - | $40,250 |
| 739 | Akeem Bloomfield | Men's 400 m | 3 | $40,000 |
| 740 | Aleshign Baweke | three disciplines | 1 | $40,000 |
| 741 | Brandon McBride | Men's 800 m | - | $40,000 |
| 742 | Bryce Hoppel | two disciplines | - | $40,000 |
| 743 | Christine Mboma | Women's 200 m | 2 | $40,000 |
| 744 | Claire Bryant | Women's long jump | - | $40,000 |
| 745 | Gabriela DeBues-Stafford | five disciplines | - | $40,000 |
| 746 | Isabella Whittaker | Women's 400 m | 2 | $40,000 |
| 747 | Jan Kudlička | Men's pole vault | - | $40,000 |
| 748 | Margaret Wambui | Women's 800 m | - | $40,000 |
| 749 | Nadine Kleinert | Women's shot put | - | $40,000 |
| 750 | Petr Frydrych | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $40,000 |
| 751 | Xiang Liu | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $40,000 |
| 752 | Zarck Visser | Men's long jump | 1 | $40,000 |
| 753 | Amine Laalou | three disciplines | 1 | $39,500 |
| 754 | Cindy Sember | Women's 100 m hurdles | 2 | $39,500 |
| 755 | Josh Hoey | two disciplines | 1 | $39,500 |
| 756 | Pamela Jelimo | Women's 800 m | 2 | $39,500 |
| 757 | Youssef Ahmed Masrahi | Men's 400 m | 1 | $39,500 |
| 758 | Shiann Salmon | Women's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $39,250 |
| 759 | Halima Hachlaf | Women's 800 m | 2 | $39,000 |
| 760 | Kim Amb | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $39,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Aleshign Baweke is 740th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $40,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Aleshign Baweke most
Prefontaine Classic 2026 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 2 miles, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Hirut Meshesha, Shelby Houlihan, Marta Alemayo, Margot Appleton, Karissa Schweizer and Yenawa Nbret.
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2026 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 5000 m, one of 18 in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Freweyni Hailu, Senayet Getachew, Medina Eisa, Hirut Meshesha, Fantaye Belayneh and Winfred Yavi.
Herculis EBS 2026 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 3000 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Senayet Getachew, Faith Kipyegon, Freweyni Hailu, Aynadis Mebratu, Mizan Alem and Cassandre Beaugrand.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Aleshign Baweke won?
$40,000, which ranks 740th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from nine paid finishes between 2025 and 2026.
What is Aleshign Baweke's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 2 miles at the 2026 Prefontaine Classic. 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 Aleshign Baweke gets paid?
Entirely by where she 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 women'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 Aleshign Baweke won?
One of nine, worth $10,000 between them. One of her appearance came at a final, which paid $5,000.
How much has Aleshign Baweke won at the World Indoor Championships?
$8,000, from one paid final in Toruń 2026. An indoor title pays $40,000 and the ladder runs six places deep, down to $4,000 for 6th, the same in every event on the programme and the same for a relay team.
Is this everything Aleshign Baweke earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Indoor Championships and World Cross Country Championships money above is separate money from a separate payer, and none of it is added together here. It holds no national federation payment, no appearance fee and no sponsorship. What it does hold is every dollar the series itself paid her, 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 Aleshign Baweke is Akeem Bloomfield on $40,000, and one below Brandon McBride on $40,000. Aleshign Baweke 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 women's 5000 m prize money, women's 3000 m prize money and women's 2 miles prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Aleshign Baweke has been paid in three of them. The biggest of the rest are women's 100 m, women's 100 m hurdles and women's 400 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Prefontaine Classic 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 women'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 women's 3000 metres page. Cross country prize money is the Belgrade 2024 and Tallahassee 2026 championships, $620,000 put up across 10 races, half of it a runner's and half of it a federation's, and the race is on the senior women's race page.