Ejgayehu Taye prize money
Ejgayehu Taye has been paid $53,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 292nd of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from ten paid finishes in the women's 5000 m and women's 3000 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
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2025 | 3000 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2024 | 5000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2024 | 5000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2024 | 5000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 | 5000 m | 4th | $4,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2023 | 5000 m | 3rd | $7,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2023 | 5000 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2022 | 3000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2021 | 3000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Allianz Memorial Van Damme 2021 | 5000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2019 | 3000 m | 12th | — |
| All eleven | two disciplines | — | $53,500 |
The ten paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $53,500 is ten separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.10% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the eleven starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Ejgayehu Taye did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 10,000 metres | 5th | 30:55.52 | $11,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Ejgayehu Taye $11,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $53,500 from eleven Diamond League starts between 2019 and 2025. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Ejgayehu Taye
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 m | 7 | — | 2021 to 2024 | $38,500 |
| Women's 3000 m | 4 | — | 2019 to 2025 | $15,000 |
The women's 5000 m has paid Ejgayehu Taye $38,500 of the $53,500, which is 72% 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 | 1 | — | Doha Diamond League | — |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 2 | — | Meeting de Paris | $12,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | — | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $6,000 |
| 2023 | 2 | — | Prefontaine Classic | $10,500 |
| 2024 | 4 | — | Doha Diamond League | $22,000 |
| 2025 | 1 | — | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $3,000 |
season running total
2024 is the biggest of them, $22,000 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Ejgayehu Taye in 2019 and 2020, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $53,500.
Around Ejgayehu Taye on the money list
Ranks 272 to 312
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 272 | Hirut Meshesha | five disciplines | 2 | $56,250 |
| 273 | Ilya Ivanyuk | Men's high jump | 2 | $56,250 |
| 274 | Megan Tapper | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $56,250 |
| 275 | Josh Kerr | two disciplines | 2 | $56,000 |
| 276 | Mohamed Katir | three disciplines | 3 | $56,000 |
| 277 | Romaine Beckford | Men's high jump | — | $56,000 |
| 278 | Slimane Moula | Men's 800 m | 3 | $56,000 |
| 279 | Nicholas Kimeli | two disciplines | 1 | $55,750 |
| 280 | Holly Bradshaw | Women's pole vault | — | $55,250 |
| 281 | Kayla White | two disciplines | 1 | $55,250 |
| 282 | Wayne Pinnock | Men's long jump | 2 | $55,000 |
| 283 | Ben Broeders | Men's pole vault | 1 | $54,500 |
| 284 | Cole Hocker | three disciplines | 1 | $54,500 |
| 285 | Gabriel Tual | two disciplines | — | $54,500 |
| 286 | Kristin Pudenz | Women's discus throw | — | $54,500 |
| 287 | Gong Lijao | Women's shot put | 1 | $54,000 |
| 288 | Ja'Kobe Tharp | Men's 110 m hurdles | 2 | $54,000 |
| 289 | Emily Grove | Women's pole vault | 1 | $53,750 |
| 290 | Nia Ali | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $53,750 |
| 291 | Brandon Starc | Men's high jump | 1 | $53,500 |
| 292 | Ejgayehu Taye | two disciplines | — | $53,500 |
| 293 | Shelby McEwen | Men's high jump | 2 | $53,375 |
| 294 | Sandra Elkasević | Women's discus throw | 2 | $53,250 |
| 295 | Sembo Almayew | two disciplines | 1 | $53,000 |
| 296 | Kimberly Williams | Women's triple jump | — | $52,750 |
| 297 | Lukas Weißhaidinger | Men's discus throw | — | $52,500 |
| 298 | Elaine Thompson | two disciplines | 2 | $52,000 |
| 299 | Habitam Alemu | three disciplines | — | $51,500 |
| 300 | Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu | three disciplines | 3 | $51,250 |
| 301 | Quanesha Burks | Women's long jump | 1 | $51,000 |
| 302 | Roberta Bruni | Women's pole vault | — | $50,875 |
| 303 | Konstanze Klosterhalfen | four disciplines | 1 | $50,750 |
| 304 | Darlan Romani | Men's shot put | 1 | $50,500 |
| 305 | Marwa Bouzayani | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $50,500 |
| 306 | Quincy Hall | two disciplines | 2 | $50,500 |
| 307 | Hilary Kpatcha | Women's long jump | 1 | $50,250 |
| 308 | Kate Grace | two disciplines | 2 | $50,250 |
| 309 | Athing Mu | Women's 800 m | 3 | $50,000 |
| 310 | Edmund Serem | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $50,000 |
| 311 | Matheus Lima | two disciplines | — | $50,000 |
| 312 | Sinesipho Dambile | Men's 200 m | 1 | $50,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Ejgayehu Taye is 292nd of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $53,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Ejgayehu Taye most
Prefontaine Classic 2023 paid $7,000 for 3rd in the 5000 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Lilian Kasait Rengeruk, Lemlem Hailu, Nozomi Tanaka, Alicia Monson, Weini Kelati and Gudaf Tsegay.
Doha Diamond League 2024 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 5000 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Medina Eisa, Melknat Wudu, Gela Hambese, Senayet Getachew, Aynadis Mebratu and Wubrist Aschal.
Prefontaine Classic 2024 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 5000 m, one of 19 in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Freweyni Hailu, Aynadis Mebratu, Birke Haylom, Hirut Meshesha, Sifan Hassan and Fantaye Belayneh.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Ejgayehu Taye won?
$53,500, which ranks 292nd of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from ten paid finishes between 2019 and 2025.
What is Ejgayehu Taye's biggest Diamond League payday?
$7,000, for finishing 3rd in the 5000 m at the 2023 Prefontaine Classic. 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 Ejgayehu Taye 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 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.
Has Ejgayehu Taye 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. She is in the result table on this site either way.
How much did Ejgayehu Taye win at the 2025 World Championships?
$11,000, from one paid final in Tokyo. The championships pay eight places in every event, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th.
Is this everything Ejgayehu Taye earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 meetings. The World 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 2,112 athletes across the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Ejgayehu Taye is Brandon Starc on $53,500, and one below Shelby McEwen on $53,375. Ejgayehu Taye 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 5000 m prize money and women's 3000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Ejgayehu Taye 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 800 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 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 women's 10,000 metres page.