Berihu Aregawi prize money
Berihu Aregawi has been paid $91,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 156th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from twelve paid finishes in the men's 5000 m, men's 3000 m and men's 2 miles, four 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League Shanghai 2025 | 5000 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 | 5000 m | 1st | $30,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2024 | 3000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2024 | 5000 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Athletissima 2023 | 5000 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Herculis EBS 2023 | 5000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2023 | 3000 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2023 | 3000 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2023 | 5000 m | 14th | — |
| Prefontaine Classic 2022 | 5000 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Herculis 2022 | 3000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Athletissima 2021 | 3000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2021 | 2 miles | 5th | $1,250 |
| All thirteen | three disciplines | — | $91,750 |
The twelve paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $91,750 is twelve separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.2% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the thirteen starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Berihu Aregawi did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 10,000 metres | 12th | 29:02.02 | — |
Berihu Aregawi stood in one 2025 World Championships final in Tokyo and finished outside the money. The championships pay eight places, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th, and nothing at all below that. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The World Indoor Championships
What Berihu Aregawi did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 3000 metres | 2nd | 7:46.25 | $20,000 |
The World Indoor Championships have paid Berihu Aregawi $20,000 for one finish in Nanjing 2025, against $91,750 from thirteen Diamond League starts between 2021 and 2025. 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 Berihu Aregawi ran on the grass, 2024 and 2026
| RACE | PLACE | MARK | EARNED | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior men's race | 2nd | 28:36 | $15,000 | $20,000 |
| Senior men's race | 2nd | 28:12 | $15,000 | $12,000 |
The championships have paid Berihu Aregawi $30,000 of his own, for two finishes 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 teams he ran on earned Ethiopia $32,000, 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 his, and it is not added to the $91,750 at the top of this page. Hescored alongside Tadese Worku, Biniam Mehary and Nibret Kinde, 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 Berihu Aregawi won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Men's 10,000 metres | Silver | — |
The silver in the men's 10,000 metres paid nothing. Only a gold pays, so 97 of the 145 medals awarded on the athletics programme in Paris carried no money at all. 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 Berihu Aregawi
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 m | 7 | 4 | 2022 to 2025 | $67,000 |
| Men's 3000 m | 5 | — | 2021 to 2024 | $23,500 |
| Men's 2 miles | 1 | — | 2021 | $1,250 |
The men's 5000 m has paid Berihu Aregawi $67,000 of the $91,750, which is 73% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2021 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | — | Athletissima | $7,250 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1 | Prefontaine Classic | $16,000 |
| 2023 | 5 | 1 | Athletissima | $21,500 |
| 2024 | 3 | 1 | AG Memorial Van Damme | $37,000 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | Diamond League Shanghai | $10,000 |
season running total
2024 is the biggest of them, $37,000 from three starts. Every season from 2021 to 2025 paid him something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $91,750.
Around Berihu Aregawi on the money list
Ranks 136 to 176
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 136 | Yuliya Levchenko | Women's high jump | 1 | $102,375 |
| 137 | Melissa Jefferson-Wooden | two disciplines | 6 | $102,000 |
| 138 | Alexander Ogando | two disciplines | 2 | $101,250 |
| 139 | Matthew Hudson-Smith | Men's 400 m | 5 | $101,250 |
| 140 | Trey Cunningham | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $100,750 |
| 141 | Anzhelika Sidorova | Women's pole vault | 3 | $99,000 |
| 142 | Lieke Klaver | Women's 400 m | — | $98,750 |
| 143 | Natalia Kaczmarek | Women's 400 m | 3 | $98,750 |
| 144 | Adriana Vilagoš | Women's javelin throw | 2 | $97,250 |
| 145 | Feng Bin | Women's discus throw | 3 | $97,000 |
| 146 | Janieve Russell | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $97,000 |
| 147 | Chris Nilsen | Men's pole vault | 2 | $96,750 |
| 148 | Emma Zapletalová | Women's 400 m hurdles | 5 | $96,500 |
| 149 | Kyron McMaster | two disciplines | 1 | $96,250 |
| 150 | Mutaz Barsham | Men's high jump | 7 | $95,833 |
| 151 | Jorinde van Klinken | two disciplines | 1 | $94,000 |
| 152 | Lamecha Girma | five disciplines | 6 | $94,000 |
| 153 | Johannes Vetter | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $93,000 |
| 154 | Abraham Kibiwot | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $92,500 |
| 155 | Amy Hunt | two disciplines | — | $92,500 |
| 156 | Berihu Aregawi | three disciplines | 4 | $91,750 |
| 157 | Niels Laros | three disciplines | 3 | $91,000 |
| 158 | Nelly Chepchirchir | two disciplines | 4 | $90,750 |
| 159 | Jereem Richards | two disciplines | — | $88,000 |
| 160 | Birke Haylom | four disciplines | 3 | $87,000 |
| 161 | Emmanuel Eseme | Men's 100 m | 2 | $87,000 |
| 162 | Peruth Chemutai | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $86,750 |
| 163 | Grace Stark | Women's 100 m hurdles | 3 | $86,500 |
| 164 | Gianna Woodruff | Women's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $86,000 |
| 165 | Birhanu Balew | two disciplines | 2 | $85,750 |
| 166 | Selemon Barega | four disciplines | 3 | $85,750 |
| 167 | Hagos Gebrhiwet | Men's 5000 m | 3 | $85,500 |
| 168 | Diribe Welteji | three disciplines | 4 | $85,250 |
| 169 | Payton Otterdahl | Men's shot put | 2 | $83,750 |
| 170 | Anna Ryzhykova | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $83,500 |
| 171 | Hyvin Jepkemoi | two disciplines | 4 | $82,500 |
| 172 | Joshua Cheptegei | three disciplines | 2 | $82,500 |
| 173 | Kelsey-Lee Barber | Women's javelin throw | 1 | $82,500 |
| 174 | Yan Ziyi | Women's javelin throw | 5 | $82,500 |
| 175 | Juan Miguel Echevarría | Men's long jump | 3 | $82,000 |
| 176 | Maggie Ewen | Women's shot put | 1 | $82,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Berihu Aregawi is 156th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $91,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Berihu Aregawi most
AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 paid $30,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Hagos Gebrhiwet, Telahun Haile Bekele, Nicholas Kimeli, Yomif Kejelcha, Isaac Kimeli and Jacob Krop.
Diamond League Shanghai 2025 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of sixteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Kuma Girma, Mezgebu Sime, Nicholas Kimeli, Keneth Kiprop, Mohamed Abdilaahi and Benson Kiplangat.
Athletissima 2023 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Joshua Cheptegei, Hagos Gebrhiwet, Telahun Haile Bekele, Selemon Barega, Birhanu Balew and Kuma Girma.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Berihu Aregawi won?
$91,750, which ranks 156th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from twelve paid finishes between 2021 and 2025.
What is Berihu Aregawi'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 Berihu Aregawi 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 Berihu Aregawi won?
Four of thirteen, worth $60,000 between them. Two of his appearances came at a final, which paid $32,000.
Has Berihu Aregawi ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
One time. 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. He is in the result table on this site either way.
How much has Berihu Aregawi won at the World Indoor Championships?
$20,000, from one paid final in Nanjing 2025. 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 Berihu Aregawi earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 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 him, 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 Berihu Aregawi is Amy Hunt on $92,500, and one below Niels Laros on $91,000. Berihu Aregawi 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 men's 5000 m prize money, men's 3000 m prize money and men's 2 miles prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Berihu Aregawi has been paid in three 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 Diamond League Shanghai 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 final is on the men's 10,000 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. 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 men's race page.