Fotyen Tesfay prize money
Fotyen Tesfay has been paid $17,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1252nd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from four 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Athletics Meet 2025 | 5000 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2025 | 5000 m | 18th | - |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 | 5000 m | 3rd | $7,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2024 | 5000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2024 | 5000 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2018 | 3000 m | 11th | - |
| All six | two disciplines | - | $17,000 |
The four paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $17,000 is four 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. Two of the six starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Fotyen Tesfay did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 10,000 metres | 8th | 31:21.67 | $5,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Fotyen Tesfay $5,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $17,000 from six 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 Fotyen Tesfay
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 m | 5 | - | 2024 to 2025 | $17,000 |
| Women's 3000 m | 1 | - | 2018 | $0 |
The women's 5000 m has paid Fotyen Tesfay $17,000 of the $17,000, which is 100% 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 | - | Doha Diamond League | - |
| 2019 | - | - | - | - |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | - | - | - | - |
| 2022 | - | - | - | - |
| 2023 | - | - | - | - |
| 2024 | 3 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $14,000 |
| 2025 | 2 | - | London Athletics Meet | $3,000 |
season running total
2024 is the biggest of them, $14,000 from three starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Fotyen Tesfay in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $17,000.
Around Fotyen Tesfay on the money list
Ranks 1232 to 1272
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1232 | Ilham Tanui Özbilen | two disciplines | - | $17,500 |
| 1233 | Irene Pusterla | Women's long jump | - | $17,500 |
| 1234 | Jackson Mumbwa Kivuva | Men's 800 m | - | $17,500 |
| 1235 | Kahmari Montgomery | Men's 400 m | - | $17,500 |
| 1236 | Karl Bebendorf | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $17,500 |
| 1237 | Melissa Boekelman | Women's shot put | - | $17,500 |
| 1238 | Xavier Carter | Men's 200 m | - | $17,500 |
| 1239 | Zaynab Dosso | Women's 100 m | - | $17,500 |
| 1240 | Ajla Del Ponte | two disciplines | - | $17,250 |
| 1241 | Ida Karstoft | Women's 200 m | 1 | $17,250 |
| 1242 | Meghan Beesley | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $17,250 |
| 1243 | Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova | Women's long jump | - | $17,250 |
| 1244 | Lia Apostolovski | Women's high jump | - | $17,125 |
| 1245 | Amos Kirui | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $17,000 |
| 1246 | Anete Sietiņa | Women's javelin throw | - | $17,000 |
| 1247 | Becky Breisch | Women's discus throw | - | $17,000 |
| 1248 | Casey Malone | Men's discus throw | - | $17,000 |
| 1249 | Daniel Huling | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $17,000 |
| 1250 | Daniella Hill | Women's shot put | - | $17,000 |
| 1251 | Filippo Randazzo | Men's long jump | 1 | $17,000 |
| 1252 | Fotyen Tesfay | two disciplines | - | $17,000 |
| 1253 | Jemma Simpson | Women's 800 m | - | $17,000 |
| 1254 | Kemar Bailey-Cole | Men's 100 m | - | $17,000 |
| 1255 | Ludvy Vaillant | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $17,000 |
| 1256 | Marie Gayot | Women's 400 m | - | $17,000 |
| 1257 | Mauro Vinicius da Silva | Men's long jump | - | $17,000 |
| 1258 | Neja Filipič | Women's triple jump | - | $17,000 |
| 1259 | Tiago Pereira | Men's triple jump | - | $17,000 |
| 1260 | Lovisa Lindh | Women's 800 m | - | $16,750 |
| 1261 | Anass Essayi | two disciplines | - | $16,500 |
| 1262 | Angela Moroşanu | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $16,500 |
| 1263 | Anthony Zambrano | Men's 400 m | 1 | $16,500 |
| 1264 | Caroline Nyaga | two disciplines | - | $16,500 |
| 1265 | Hailemariyam Amare | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $16,500 |
| 1266 | Hanna Green | Women's 800 m | 1 | $16,500 |
| 1267 | Liveta Jasiūnaitė | Women's javelin throw | - | $16,500 |
| 1268 | Martin Kupper | Men's discus throw | - | $16,500 |
| 1269 | Molly Huddle | two disciplines | - | $16,500 |
| 1270 | Randy Lewis | Men's triple jump | - | $16,500 |
| 1271 | Yahya Berrabah | Men's long jump | - | $16,500 |
| 1272 | Zane Weir | Men's shot put | - | $16,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Fotyen Tesfay is 1252nd of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $17,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Fotyen Tesfay most
AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 paid $7,000 for 3rd in the 5000 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Ejgayehu Taye, Caroline Nyaga, Nozomi Tanaka, Melknat Wudu, Karissa Schweizer and Tsigie Gebreselama.
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2024 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 5000 m, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Edinah Jebitok, Melknat Wudu, Likina Amebaw, Maureen Koster, Nadia Battocletti and Gela Hambese.
London Athletics Meet 2025 paid $3,000 for 4th in the 5000 m, one of sixteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Georgia Griffith, Hirut Meshesha, Nozomi Tanaka, Marta Alemayo, Margaret Akidor and Yenawa Nbret.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Fotyen Tesfay won?
$17,000, which ranks 1252nd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from four paid finishes between 2018 and 2025.
What is Fotyen Tesfay's biggest Diamond League payday?
$7,000, for finishing 3rd 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 Fotyen Tesfay 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 Fotyen Tesfay ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Two 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 did Fotyen Tesfay win at the 2025 World Championships?
$5,000, 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 Fotyen Tesfay 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 Fotyen Tesfay is Filippo Randazzo on $17,000, and one below Jemma Simpson on $17,000. Fotyen Tesfay 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 Fotyen Tesfay 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 London Athletics Meet 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.