Birke Haylom prize money
Birke Haylom has been paid $87,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 360th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 20 paid finishes in the women's 1500 m, women's 5000 m and women's mile, three 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 20 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $87,000 is 20 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.08% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Three of the 23 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The Ultimate Championship
What Birke Haylom did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 1500 metres | 11th | 4:03.75 | - |
Birke Haylom 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 Birke Haylom did indoors, 2025 and 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 3000 metres | 5th | 8:39.28 | $6,000 |
| Women's 1500 metres | 5th | 4:01.34 | $6,000 |
The World Indoor Championships have paid Birke Haylom $12,000 for two finishes across Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026, against $87,000 from 23 Diamond League starts between 2023 and 2026. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Birke Haylom
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 1500 m | 16 | 2 | 2023 to 2026 | $63,750 |
| Women's 5000 m | 4 | - | 2023 to 2025 | $13,250 |
| Women's mile | 2 | 1 | 2023 to 2025 | $10,000 |
| Women's 3000 m | 1 | - | 2026 | $0 |
The women's 1500 m has paid Birke Haylom $63,750 of the $87,000, which is 73% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2023 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | 1 | Bislett Games | $18,250 |
| 2024 | 5 | - | Xiamen Diamond League | $13,750 |
| 2025 | 6 | - | Xiamen Diamond League | $18,000 |
| 2026 | 6 | 2 | Shanghai Diamond League | $37,000 |
season running total
2026 is the biggest of them, $37,000 from six starts. Every season from 2023 to 2026 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $87,000.
Around Birke Haylom on the money list
Ranks 340 to 380
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 340 | Yargelis Savigne | two disciplines | 7 | $94,500 |
| 341 | Jorinde van Klinken | two disciplines | 1 | $94,000 |
| 342 | Lamecha Girma | five disciplines | 6 | $94,000 |
| 343 | Sanya Richards-Ross | two disciplines | 5 | $93,500 |
| 344 | Luguelín Santos | Men's 400 m | 1 | $93,000 |
| 345 | Amy Hunt | two disciplines | - | $92,500 |
| 346 | Christophe Lemaitre | two disciplines | 1 | $92,500 |
| 347 | Chaunte Lowe | Women's high jump | 5 | $92,000 |
| 348 | Berihu Aregawi | three disciplines | 4 | $91,750 |
| 349 | Peruth Chemutai | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $91,750 |
| 350 | L. J. van Zyl | Men's 400 m hurdles | 2 | $91,500 |
| 351 | Niels Laros | three disciplines | 3 | $91,000 |
| 352 | Nelly Chepchirchir | two disciplines | 4 | $90,750 |
| 353 | Levern Spencer | Women's high jump | 1 | $90,508 |
| 354 | Jake Wightman | four disciplines | 4 | $90,250 |
| 355 | Jeremy Wariner | Men's 400 m | 7 | $90,000 |
| 356 | Ameer Webb | two disciplines | 3 | $89,500 |
| 357 | Habitam Alemu | three disciplines | - | $89,500 |
| 358 | Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa | two disciplines | 1 | $89,500 |
| 359 | Imane Merga | two disciplines | 4 | $88,500 |
| 360 | Birke Haylom | four disciplines | 3 | $87,000 |
| 361 | Emmanuel Eseme | Men's 100 m | 2 | $87,000 |
| 362 | Grace Stark | Women's 100 m hurdles | 3 | $86,500 |
| 363 | Gianna Woodruff | Women's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $86,000 |
| 364 | Meseret Defar | three disciplines | 5 | $86,000 |
| 365 | Phillips Idowu | Men's triple jump | 6 | $86,000 |
| 366 | Evan Jager | three disciplines | 1 | $85,500 |
| 367 | Diribe Welteji | three disciplines | 4 | $85,250 |
| 368 | Philip Milanov | Men's discus throw | 3 | $85,250 |
| 369 | Maggie Ewen | Women's shot put | 1 | $84,500 |
| 370 | Megan Simmonds | Women's 100 m hurdles | 2 | $84,250 |
| 371 | Hilal Yego | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 2 | $84,000 |
| 372 | Payton Otterdahl | Men's shot put | 2 | $83,750 |
| 373 | Donavan Brazier | Men's 800 m | 2 | $83,500 |
| 374 | Georganne Moline | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $83,500 |
| 375 | Janay Deloach | Women's long jump | 3 | $83,000 |
| 376 | Jimmy Vicaut | two disciplines | 1 | $83,000 |
| 377 | Mekonnen Gebremedhin | two disciplines | 1 | $83,000 |
| 378 | Yan Ziyi | Women's javelin throw | 5 | $82,500 |
| 379 | Lidya Chepkurui | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 2 | $82,000 |
| 380 | Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone | two disciplines | 3 | $82,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Birke Haylom is 360th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $87,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Birke Haylom most
Shanghai Diamond League 2026 paid $20,000 for 1st in the 1500 m, one of fifteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Tsige Duguma, Abbey Caldwell, Worknesh Mesele, Dorcus Ewoi, Jessica Hull and Emily Mackay.
Doha Diamond League 2026 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 1500 m, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Saron Berhe, Haregeweyni Kalayu, Gesa Felicitas Krause, Águeda Marqués, Gaia Sabbatini and Marta Zenoni.
Bislett Games 2023 paid $10,000 for 1st in the mile, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Cory McGee, Jessica Hull, Nikki Hiltz, Worknesh Mesele, Linden Hall and Hirut Meshesha.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Birke Haylom won?
$87,000, which ranks 360th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 20 paid finishes between 2023 and 2026.
What is Birke Haylom's biggest Diamond League payday?
$20,000, for finishing 1st in the Diamond+ 1500 m at the 2026 Shanghai Diamond League. 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 Birke Haylom 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 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.
How many Diamond League meetings has Birke Haylom won?
Three of 23, worth $40,000 between them. Three of her appearances came at a final, which paid $4,500.
Has Birke Haylom ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Three 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 has Birke Haylom won at the World Indoor Championships?
$12,000, from two paid finals across Toruń 2026 and 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 Birke Haylom earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Indoor 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 Birke Haylom is Imane Merga on $88,500, and one below Emmanuel Eseme on $87,000. Birke Haylom 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 5000 m prize money, women's mile prize money and women's 3000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Birke Haylom 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 Shanghai Diamond League 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 1500 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 finals are on the women's 3000 metres and women's 1500 metres pages.