Axumawit Embaye prize money
Axumawit Embaye has been paid $28,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 482nd of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from thirteen 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 thirteen paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $28,750 is thirteen separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.05% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. Ten of the 23 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 | 17 | — | 2017 to 2025 | $19,250 |
| Women's mile | 4 | — | 2019 to 2023 | $9,000 |
| Women's 5000 m | 1 | — | 2023 | $500 |
| Women's 3000 m | 1 | — | 2022 | $0 |
The women's 1500 m has paid Axumawit Embaye $19,250 of the $28,750, which is 67% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2017 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | — | Meeting de Paris | — |
| 2018 | — | — | — | — |
| 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, 2018, 2020, 2024 and 2025, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $28,750.
Around Axumawit Embaye on the money list
Ranks 462 to 502
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 462 | Steffin McCarter | Men's long jump | 1 | $30,000 |
| 463 | Viktoriya Tkachuk | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $30,000 |
| 464 | Brandon Hicklin | two disciplines | — | $29,750 |
| 465 | Donald Thomas | Men's high jump | 1 | $29,750 |
| 466 | Fiordaliza Cofil | Women's 400 m | 1 | $29,750 |
| 467 | Gina Lückenkemper | two disciplines | — | $29,750 |
| 468 | Isaac Makwala | two disciplines | — | $29,750 |
| 469 | Isaac Nader | two disciplines | 1 | $29,750 |
| 470 | Kamila Lićwinko | Women's high jump | 1 | $29,750 |
| 471 | Tamari Davis | two disciplines | — | $29,750 |
| 472 | Cindy Sember | Women's 100 m hurdles | 2 | $29,500 |
| 473 | Nelly Jepkosgei | two disciplines | 1 | $29,500 |
| 474 | Tamara Clark | two disciplines | — | $29,500 |
| 475 | Yarisley Silva | Women's pole vault | 1 | $29,500 |
| 476 | Cambrea Sturgis | two disciplines | 1 | $29,250 |
| 477 | Daniel Arce | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $29,250 |
| 478 | Nafissatou Thiam | two disciplines | 1 | $29,250 |
| 479 | Cierra Jackson | Women's discus throw | 1 | $29,000 |
| 480 | Lorraine Ugen | Women's long jump | 1 | $29,000 |
| 481 | Ruben Querinjean | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $29,000 |
| 482 | Axumawit Embaye | four disciplines | — | $28,750 |
| 483 | Tatsiana Khaladovich | Women's javelin throw | 2 | $28,750 |
| 484 | Zoe Hobbs | Women's 100 m | — | $28,750 |
| 485 | Aliona Dubitskaya | Women's shot put | — | $28,500 |
| 486 | Nico Young | two disciplines | 1 | $28,500 |
| 487 | Orlando Bennett | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $28,500 |
| 488 | Zuzana Hejnová | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $28,500 |
| 489 | Claudine Vita | Women's discus throw | — | $28,250 |
| 490 | Christina Honsel | Women's high jump | 1 | $28,167 |
| 491 | Liam Adcock | Men's long jump | 1 | $28,000 |
| 492 | Patrícia Mamona | Women's triple jump | — | $28,000 |
| 493 | Lorenzo Simonelli | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $27,750 |
| 494 | Agnes Jebet Tirop | two disciplines | 1 | $27,500 |
| 495 | Amber Anning | Women's 400 m | — | $27,500 |
| 496 | Jazmin Sawyers | Women's long jump | — | $27,500 |
| 497 | Peter Bol | Men's 800 m | — | $27,500 |
| 498 | Ronald Kwemoi | four disciplines | 1 | $27,500 |
| 499 | Carey McLeod | Men's long jump | 1 | $27,250 |
| 500 | Justin Gatlin | two disciplines | 1 | $27,250 |
| 501 | Alyssa Jones | Women's long jump | 1 | $27,000 |
| 502 | Carl Bengtström | three disciplines | — | $26,750 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Axumawit Embaye is 482nd of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $28,750.
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.
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2022 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 1500 m, one of fifteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Georgia Griffith, Claudia Bobocea, Habitam Alemu, Winnie Nanyondo, Edinah Jebitok and Linden Hall.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Axumawit Embaye won?
$28,750, which ranks 482nd of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from thirteen paid finishes between 2017 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. She 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 104 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 2,112 athletes across the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Axumawit Embaye is Ruben Querinjean on $29,000, and one below Tatsiana Khaladovich on $28,750. Axumawit Embaye is one of 95 Ethiopia athletes athletics has paid, and Ethiopia athletics prize money adds them up to $3,242,000 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 800 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.