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DIAMOND LEAGUE · ETH · WOMEN'S 3000 M STEEPLECHASE · 2011 to 2016

Birtukan Fente Alemu prize money

Birtukan Fente Alemu has been paid $9,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1633rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from five paid finishes in the women's 3000 m steeplechase and women's 5000 m, the best of them 5th.

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.

DIAMOND LEAGUE $9,000
BIGGEST PAYDAY $2,500
WINS 0
MEETINGS PAID 5
MONEY LIST #1633

Every payment

Where she finished, and what the card paid for it

5 starts
Every Diamond League meeting on this site that Birtukan Fente Alemu finished, the discipline, the place and what it paid.
MEETING DISCIPLINE PLACE PAID
British Athletics Grand Prix 2016 Birmingham 5000 m Diamond League 7th $1,500
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2015 Rome 3000 m steeplechase Diamond League 7th $1,500
British Athletics Grand Prix 2015 Birmingham 3000 m steeplechase Diamond League 7th $1,500
Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix 2011 Doha 3000 m steeplechase Diamond League 5th $2,500
Athletissima 2011 Lausanne 3000 m steeplechase Diamond League 6th $2,000
All five two disciplines - $9,000

The five paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $9,000 is five separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.01% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.

Discipline by discipline

What each event has paid Birtukan Fente Alemu

2 of 20
DISCIPLINE STARTS WINS YEARS PAID
Women's 3000 m steeplechase 4 - 2011 to 2015 $7,500
Women's 5000 m 1 - 2016 $1,500

The women's 3000 m steeplechase has paid Birtukan Fente Alemu $7,500 of the $9,000, which is 83% of everything the series has given her.

Season by season

2011 to 2016, in the order it was won

3 of 6 paid
SEASON STARTS WINS BIGGEST PAID
2011 2 - Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix 5th, 3000 m steeplechase $4,500
2012 - - - -
2013 - - - -
2014 - - - -
2015 2 - Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 7th, 3000 m steeplechase $3,000
2016 1 - British Athletics Grand Prix 7th, 5000 m $1,500

season running total

2011 is the biggest of them, $4,500 from two starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Birtukan Fente Alemu in 2012, 2013 and 2014, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $9,000.

Around Birtukan Fente Alemu on the money list

Ranks 1613 to 1653

41 of 3,683
# ATHLETE DISCIPLINE WINS PAID
1613 Hanna Titimets UKR Women's 400 m hurdles - $9,500
1614 Joanna Jóźwik POL Women's 800 m - $9,500
1615 Jura Levy JAM Women's 100 m - $9,500
1616 Lythe Pillay RSA Men's 400 m - $9,500
1617 Mikele Barber USA Women's 100 m - $9,500
1618 Rosângela Santos BRA two disciplines - $9,500
1619 Shi Yuhao CHN Men's long jump - $9,500
1620 Sofi Flink SWE Women's javelin throw - $9,500
1621 Tarsis Orogot UGA Men's 200 m - $9,500
1622 Teahna Daniels USA two disciplines - $9,500
1623 Tobias Grønstad NOR Men's 800 m - $9,500
1624 Wilfried Koffi Hua CIV two disciplines - $9,500
1625 Xinyue Su CHN Women's discus throw - $9,500
1626 Yamilé Aldama GBR Women's triple jump - $9,500
1627 Rohan Watson JAM Men's 100 m - $9,250
1628 Ryoichi Akamatsu JPN Men's high jump - $9,250
1629 Tobias Scherbarth GER Men's pole vault - $9,250
1630 Zach Bradford USA Men's pole vault - $9,250
1631 Abdelati El Guesse MAR Men's 800 m - $9,000
1632 Ben Blankenship USA three disciplines - $9,000
1633 Birtukan Fente Alemu ETH two disciplines - $9,000
1634 Gerhard Mayer AUT Men's discus throw - $9,000
1635 Helen Clitheroe GBR two disciplines - $9,000
1636 Henrik Larsson SWE two disciplines - $9,000
1637 Irina Rodrigues POR Women's discus throw - $9,000
1638 Jerome Blake CAN two disciplines - $9,000
1639 Jonathan Jones BAR Men's 400 m - $9,000
1640 Kim Juhl Christensen DEN Men's shot put - $9,000
1641 Lawi Lalang KEN two disciplines - $9,000
1642 Oscar Pistorius RSA Men's 400 m - $9,000
1643 Samuel Pihlström SWE two disciplines - $9,000
1644 Shawn Crawford USA Men's 200 m - $9,000
1645 Tatyana Lebedeva RUS Women's triple jump - $9,000
1646 Tommi Evilä FIN Men's long jump - $9,000
1647 Treniere Moser USA two disciplines - $9,000
1648 Veronica Borsi ITA Women's 100 m hurdles - $9,000
1649 Veronica Vancardo SUI Women's 800 m - $9,000
1650 Viivi Lehikoinen FIN Women's 400 m hurdles - $9,000
1651 Yoann Kowal FRA two disciplines - $9,000
1652 Giuseppe Gibilisco ITA Men's pole vault - $8,833
1653 Arthur Cissé CIV two disciplines - $8,750

Who else was in the money

The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Birtukan Fente Alemu most

three races

Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix 2011 paid $2,500 for 5th in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of seven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Mardrea Hyman, Cristina Casandra, Milcah Chemos, Mercy Wanjiku Njoroge, Lydia Chebet Rotich and Sofia Assefa.

Athletissima 2011 paid $2,000 for 6th in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Lydia Chebet Rotich, Fionnuala McCormack, Milcah Chemos, Sofia Assefa, Mercy Wanjiku Njoroge and Habiba Ghribi.

British Athletics Grand Prix 2016 paid $1,500 for 7th in the 5000 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Dominika Napieraj, Vivian Jepkemei Cheruiyot, Mercy Cherono, Janet Kisa, Haftamnesh Tesfaye and Eloise Wellings.

Frequently asked questions

How much Diamond League prize money has Birtukan Fente Alemu won?

$9,000, which ranks 1633rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from five paid finishes between 2011 and 2016.

What is Birtukan Fente Alemu's biggest Diamond League payday?

$2,500, for finishing 5th in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2011 Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 5th and would have paid anybody who finished there.

How does the Diamond League decide what Birtukan Fente Alemu 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 3000 m steeplechase 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.

Is this everything Birtukan Fente Alemu 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 Birtukan Fente Alemu is Ben Blankenship on $9,000, and one below Gerhard Mayer on $9,000. Birtukan Fente Alemu 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 3000 m steeplechase prize money and women's 5000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Birtukan Fente Alemu has been paid in two 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 British Athletics Grand Prix has its own page across every edition of it.