Axumawit Embaye prize money
Axumawit Embaye has been paid $46,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 666th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 19 paid finishes in the women's 1500 m, women's mile and women's 5000 m, the best of them 2nd.
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
The 19 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $46,250 is 19 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. Ten of the 29 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Axumawit Embaye
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 1500 m | 22 | - | 2014 to 2025 | $35,750 |
| Women's mile | 5 | - | 2016 to 2023 | $10,000 |
| Women's 5000 m | 1 | - | 2023 | $500 |
| Women's 3000 m | 1 | - | 2022 | $0 |
The women's 1500 m has paid Axumawit Embaye $35,750 of the $46,250, which is 77% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2014 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 1 | - | Glasgow Grand Prix | $4,000 |
| 2015 | 1 | - | Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix | $2,000 |
| 2016 | 2 | - | Muller Anniversary Games | $3,500 |
| 2017 | 1 | - | Meeting de Paris | - |
| 2018 | 2 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $8,000 |
| 2019 | 7 | - | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $8,500 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 3 | - | Allianz Memorial Van Damme | $7,500 |
| 2022 | 6 | - | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $10,500 |
| 2023 | 4 | - | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $2,250 |
| 2024 | 1 | - | Xiamen Diamond League | - |
| 2025 | 1 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | - |
season running total
2022 is the biggest of them, $10,500 from six starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Axumawit Embaye in 2017, 2020, 2024 and 2025, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $46,250.
Around Axumawit Embaye on the money list
Ranks 646 to 686
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 646 | Virginia Nyambura | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $48,000 |
| 647 | Wilfried Happio | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $48,000 |
| 648 | Aleia Hobbs | Women's 100 m | 2 | $47,750 |
| 649 | Amel Tuka | Men's 800 m | 1 | $47,750 |
| 650 | Līna Mūze | Women's javelin throw | - | $47,250 |
| 651 | Matteo Sioli | Men's high jump | 2 | $47,250 |
| 652 | Werkuha Getachew | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 2 | $47,250 |
| 653 | Davisleydi Velazco | Women's triple jump | 2 | $47,000 |
| 654 | Laulauga Tausaga | Women's discus throw | - | $47,000 |
| 655 | Laura Weightman | four disciplines | - | $47,000 |
| 656 | Xie Wenjun | Men's 110 m hurdles | 1 | $47,000 |
| 657 | Agnes Jebet Ngetich | two disciplines | 2 | $46,750 |
| 658 | Nikki Hiltz | two disciplines | 2 | $46,750 |
| 659 | Winnie Nanyondo | four disciplines | - | $46,750 |
| 660 | Menno Vloon | Men's pole vault | - | $46,667 |
| 661 | Elizabeth Gleadle | Women's javelin throw | 1 | $46,500 |
| 662 | Kristi Castlin | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $46,500 |
| 663 | Shelby Houlihan | four disciplines | 2 | $46,500 |
| 664 | Michael Mason | Men's high jump | 1 | $46,375 |
| 665 | Derek Drouin | Men's high jump | - | $46,333 |
| 666 | Axumawit Embaye | four disciplines | - | $46,250 |
| 667 | Abel Kipsang | three disciplines | 2 | $46,000 |
| 668 | Gemechu Godana | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 2 | $46,000 |
| 669 | Rasheed Dwyer | Men's 200 m | - | $46,000 |
| 670 | Ciara Mageean | two disciplines | 1 | $45,750 |
| 671 | Mariya Ryemyen | two disciplines | 2 | $45,500 |
| 672 | Yemisi Mabry | Women's shot put | - | $45,250 |
| 673 | Alfred Kirwa Yego | Men's 800 m | 1 | $45,000 |
| 674 | Angelica Bengtsson | Women's pole vault | 1 | $45,000 |
| 675 | Trevor Bassitt | two disciplines | - | $45,000 |
| 676 | Konrad Bukowiecki | Men's shot put | 1 | $44,750 |
| 677 | Max Burgin | Men's 800 m | 1 | $44,750 |
| 678 | Xie Zhenye | two disciplines | - | $44,750 |
| 679 | Alaysha Johnson | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $44,500 |
| 680 | Jessica Beard | Women's 400 m | - | $44,500 |
| 681 | Tomáš Staněk | Men's shot put | - | $44,500 |
| 682 | Patrizia Van der Weken | Women's 100 m | 1 | $44,250 |
| 683 | Álex Quiñónez | Men's 200 m | - | $44,000 |
| 684 | Ginnie Crawford | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $44,000 |
| 685 | Jasmine Moore | two disciplines | 1 | $44,000 |
| 686 | Reynier Mena | Men's 200 m | 2 | $44,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Axumawit Embaye is 666th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $46,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Axumawit Embaye most
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2022 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 1500 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Laura Muir, Ciara Mageean, Cory McGee, Gaia Sabbatini, Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal and Federica Del Buono.
Allianz Memorial Van Damme 2021 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the mile, one of twelve in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Linden Hall, Marta Pérez, Elise Cranny, Josette Andrews, Esther Guerrero and Winnie Nanyondo.
AG Memorial Van Damme 2018 paid $5,000 for 5th in the 1500 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Winny Chebet, Sofia Ennaoui, Rababe Arafi, Laura Muir, Shelby Houlihan and Sifan Hassan.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Axumawit Embaye won?
$46,250, which ranks 666th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 19 paid finishes between 2014 and 2025.
What is Axumawit Embaye's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the 1500 m at the 2022 Golden Gala Pietro Mennea. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 2nd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Axumawit Embaye 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 place is worth the same in the women's 1500 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.
Has Axumawit Embaye ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Ten 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 Axumawit Embaye 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 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 Axumawit Embaye is Derek Drouin on $46,333, and one below Abel Kipsang on $46,000. Axumawit Embaye 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 1500 m prize money, women's mile prize money, women's 5000 m prize money and women's 3000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Axumawit Embaye has been paid in four 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 AG Memorial Van Damme has its own page across every edition of it.