Beatrice Chebet prize money
Beatrice Chebet has been paid $180,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 135th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 17 paid finishes in the women's 5000 m, women's 3000 m and women's 1500 m, eleven 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 she finished, and what the card paid for it
The 17 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $180,250 is 17 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.2% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Four of the 21 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Beatrice Chebet did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 metres | 1st | 14:54.36 | $70,000 |
| Women's 10,000 metres | 1st | 30:37.61 | $70,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Beatrice Chebet $140,000 for two finishes in Tokyo, against $180,250 from 21 Diamond League starts between 2019 and 2025. A world title paid $70,000, which is more than the Diamond League has paid her in any single season. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The World Cross Country Championships
What Beatrice Chebet ran on the grass
| RACE | PLACE | MARK | EARNED | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior women's race | 1st | 31:05 | $30,000 | $20,000 |
The championships have paid Beatrice Chebet $30,000 of her own, for one finish inside the first six, and it was a win. 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 Kenya $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 $180,250 at the top of this page. Shescored alongside Lilian Kasait Rengeruk, Margaret Kipkemboi and Agnes Jebet Ngetich, 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.
The Olympic Games
What Beatrice Chebet won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 metres | Gold | $50,000 |
| Women's 10,000 metres | Gold | $50,000 |
Beatrice Chebet was paid $100,000 for the women's 5000 metres and women's 10,000 metres in Paris, the first Games at which an athletics title carried prize money at all. Every one of the 48 golds paid the same $50,000. The Olympic page holds all 48 golds, the $2,400,000 they paid and what the circuit pays the same champions.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Beatrice Chebet
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 m | 12 | 7 | 2019 to 2025 | $130,750 |
| Women's 3000 m | 8 | 4 | 2019 to 2025 | $43,500 |
| Women's 1500 m | 1 | - | 2025 | $6,000 |
The women's 5000 m has paid Beatrice Chebet $130,750 of the $180,250, which is 73% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2019 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | - | Müller Anniversary Games | $1,500 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 4 | 1 | Doha Diamond League | $11,250 |
| 2022 | 2 | - | Athletissima | $3,500 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3 | Prefontaine Classic | $48,000 |
| 2024 | 3 | 3 | AG Memorial Van Damme | $50,000 |
| 2025 | 5 | 4 | Xiamen Diamond League | $66,000 |
season running total
2025 is the biggest of them, $66,000 from five starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Beatrice Chebet in 2020, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $180,250.
Around Beatrice Chebet on the money list
Ranks 115 to 155
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 115 | Mercy Cherono | five disciplines | 9 | $194,500 |
| 116 | Gerd Kanter | Men's discus throw | 9 | $194,000 |
| 117 | Bohdan Bondarenko | Men's high jump | 12 | $193,583 |
| 118 | Freweyni Hailu | five disciplines | 7 | $193,000 |
| 119 | Audrey Werro | two disciplines | 7 | $191,500 |
| 120 | Rai Benjamin | four disciplines | 8 | $190,250 |
| 121 | Carmelita Jeter | two disciplines | 13 | $189,000 |
| 122 | Milcah Chemos | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 16 | $189,000 |
| 123 | Shara Proctor | Women's long jump | 4 | $187,000 |
| 124 | Michelle Carter | Women's shot put | 3 | $186,500 |
| 125 | Blanka Vlašić | Women's high jump | 14 | $185,500 |
| 126 | Novlene Williams-Mills | Women's 400 m | 7 | $185,000 |
| 127 | Luvo Manyonga | Men's long jump | 8 | $184,500 |
| 128 | Leyanis Pérez | Women's triple jump | 9 | $183,250 |
| 129 | Olha Saladukha | Women's triple jump | 6 | $183,000 |
| 130 | Vítězslav Veselý | Men's javelin throw | 8 | $183,000 |
| 131 | Ferguson Rotich | two disciplines | 5 | $181,750 |
| 132 | Bershawn Jackson | two disciplines | 9 | $181,500 |
| 133 | Emmanuel Korir | two disciplines | 6 | $181,500 |
| 134 | Janieve Russell | Women's 400 m hurdles | 3 | $180,500 |
| 135 | Beatrice Chebet | three disciplines | 11 | $180,250 |
| 136 | Christina Obergföll | Women's javelin throw | 12 | $179,000 |
| 137 | Fedrick Dacres | Men's discus throw | 6 | $178,750 |
| 138 | Tianna Bartoletta | two disciplines | 8 | $177,750 |
| 139 | Larissa Iapichino | Women's long jump | 6 | $177,500 |
| 140 | Sally Pearson | Women's 100 m hurdles | 7 | $172,500 |
| 141 | Usain Bolt | two disciplines | 16 | $172,000 |
| 142 | Andriy Protsenko | Men's high jump | 3 | $171,250 |
| 143 | Emmanouil Karalis | Men's pole vault | 3 | $170,875 |
| 144 | Keely Hodgkinson | two disciplines | 9 | $170,500 |
| 145 | Marcin Lewandowski | four disciplines | 2 | $170,500 |
| 146 | Sarah Mitton | Women's shot put | 3 | $170,250 |
| 147 | Yuliya Levchenko | Women's high jump | 1 | $169,125 |
| 148 | Aaron Brown | two disciplines | 2 | $167,000 |
| 149 | Abeba Aregawi | four disciplines | 12 | $166,000 |
| 150 | David Rudisha | Men's 800 m | 14 | $166,000 |
| 151 | Neeraj Chopra | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $165,500 |
| 152 | Will Claye | two disciplines | 4 | $164,750 |
| 153 | Hansle Parchment | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $164,000 |
| 154 | Selemon Barega | four disciplines | 5 | $163,750 |
| 155 | Eunice Sum | two disciplines | 11 | $162,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Beatrice Chebet is 135th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $180,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Beatrice Chebet most
AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 paid $30,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Medina Eisa, Fotyen Tesfay, Ejgayehu Taye, Caroline Nyaga, Nozomi Tanaka and Melknat Wudu.
Xiamen Diamond League 2025 paid $20,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of sixteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Gudaf Tsegay, Birke Haylom, Hirut Meshesha, Likina Amebaw, Asayech Ayichew and Aynadis Mebratu.
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2025 paid $20,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of 17 in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Freweyni Hailu, Nadia Battocletti, Birke Haylom, Gudaf Tsegay, Josette Andrews and Chaltu Dida.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Beatrice Chebet won?
$180,250, which ranks 135th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 17 paid finishes between 2019 and 2025.
What is Beatrice Chebet's biggest Diamond League payday?
$30,000, for finishing 1st in the 5000 m at the 2024 AG Memorial Van Damme. That is a final, which is why it is the biggest: the final pays two to five times what the same place is worth at a series meeting.
How does the Diamond League decide what Beatrice Chebet 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 Beatrice Chebet won?
Eleven of 21, worth $150,000 between them. Two of her appearances came at a final, which paid $42,000.
Has Beatrice Chebet 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.
How much did Beatrice Chebet win at the 2025 World Championships?
$140,000, from two paid finals in Tokyo. The championships pay eight places in every event, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th.
Is this everything Beatrice Chebet earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Championships, World Cross Country Championships and Olympic 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 Beatrice Chebet is Janieve Russell on $180,500, and one below Christina Obergföll on $179,000. Beatrice Chebet is one of 221 Kenya athletes athletics has paid, and Kenya athletics prize money adds them up to $10,867,417 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 5000 m prize money, women's 3000 m prize money and women's 1500 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Beatrice Chebet 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 Xiamen Diamond League has its own page across every edition of it. Away from the series, World Championships prize money is Tokyo 2025, $8,498,000 paid eight places deep in every event, and the full finals are on the women's 5000 metres and women's 10,000 metres pages. 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.