Ejgayehu Taye prize money
Ejgayehu Taye has been paid $54,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 569th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from eleven 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 | - |
| Müller Grand Prix Birmingham 2018 | 3000 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| All twelve | two disciplines | - | $54,500 |
The eleven paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $54,500 is eleven separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.05% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the twelve 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 $54,500 from twelve Diamond League starts between 2018 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 | 5 | - | 2018 to 2025 | $16,000 |
The women's 5000 m has paid Ejgayehu Taye $38,500 of the $54,500, which is 71% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2018 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | - | Müller Grand Prix Birmingham | $1,000 |
| 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 $54,500.
Around Ejgayehu Taye on the money list
Ranks 549 to 589
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 549 | Josh Kerr | two disciplines | 2 | $56,000 |
| 550 | Mohamed Katir | three disciplines | 3 | $56,000 |
| 551 | Romaine Beckford | Men's high jump | - | $56,000 |
| 552 | Slimane Moula | Men's 800 m | 3 | $56,000 |
| 553 | Tirunesh Dibaba | Women's 5000 m | 5 | $56,000 |
| 554 | Anthonique Strachan | two disciplines | - | $55,750 |
| 555 | Nicholas Kimeli | two disciplines | 1 | $55,750 |
| 556 | Félix Sánchez | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $55,500 |
| 557 | Michel Tornéus | Men's long jump | - | $55,500 |
| 558 | Shalonda Solomon | two disciplines | - | $55,500 |
| 559 | Kayla White | two disciplines | 1 | $55,250 |
| 560 | Angelika Cichocka | three disciplines | 2 | $55,000 |
| 561 | Donald Scott | Men's triple jump | - | $55,000 |
| 562 | Irving Saladino | Men's long jump | 3 | $55,000 |
| 563 | Robert Biwott | three disciplines | 1 | $55,000 |
| 564 | Wayne Pinnock | Men's long jump | 2 | $55,000 |
| 565 | Margaret Kipkemboi | two disciplines | - | $54,750 |
| 566 | Ben Broeders | Men's pole vault | 1 | $54,500 |
| 567 | Cole Hocker | three disciplines | 1 | $54,500 |
| 568 | Dwight Thomas | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $54,500 |
| 569 | Ejgayehu Taye | two disciplines | - | $54,500 |
| 570 | Gabriel Tual | two disciplines | - | $54,500 |
| 571 | Kristin Pudenz | Women's discus throw | - | $54,500 |
| 572 | Ja'Kobe Tharp | Men's 110 m hurdles | 2 | $54,000 |
| 573 | Shakima Wimbley | Women's 400 m | - | $54,000 |
| 574 | Emily Grove | Women's pole vault | 1 | $53,750 |
| 575 | Filip Ingebrigtsen | five disciplines | - | $53,750 |
| 576 | Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko | Women's triple jump | - | $53,750 |
| 577 | Andrew Pozzi | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $53,500 |
| 578 | Clayton Murphy | three disciplines | - | $53,500 |
| 579 | Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie | two disciplines | - | $53,500 |
| 580 | Michael Hartfield | Men's long jump | 1 | $53,500 |
| 581 | Shelby McEwen | Men's high jump | 2 | $53,375 |
| 582 | Reece Prescod | two disciplines | 1 | $53,250 |
| 583 | Vashti Cunningham | Women's high jump | - | $53,250 |
| 584 | Christine Ohuruogu | Women's 400 m | 2 | $53,000 |
| 585 | Freddie Crittenden | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $53,000 |
| 586 | Kelly-Ann Baptiste | two disciplines | 1 | $53,000 |
| 587 | Quanesha Burks | Women's long jump | 1 | $53,000 |
| 588 | Sembo Almayew | two disciplines | 1 | $53,000 |
| 589 | Léa Sprunger | three disciplines | 1 | $52,750 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Ejgayehu Taye is 569th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $54,500.
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?
$54,500, which ranks 569th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from eleven paid finishes between 2018 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. That start 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 224 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 3,683 athletes across the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Ejgayehu Taye is Dwight Thomas on $54,500, and one below Gabriel Tual on $54,500. Ejgayehu Taye 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 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 400 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.