Hirut Meshesha prize money
Hirut Meshesha has been paid $56,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 546th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 19 paid finishes in the women's 1500 m, women's 5000 m and women's 2 miles, two 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 19 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $56,250 is 19 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. Seven of the 26 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The Ultimate Championship
What Hirut Meshesha did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 metres | 9th | 14:42.49 | - |
Hirut Meshesha 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 Cross Country Championships
What Hirut Meshesha ran on the grass
| RACE | PLACE | MARK | EARNED | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed relay | - | 22:34 | - | $6,000 |
Hirut Meshesha has run one race here and was paid nothing in her own name. Only the first six across the line are, $30,000 for the win down to $3,000 for 6th, and there is no appearance money underneath it. The team she ran on earned Ethiopia $6,000, all of it from the mixed relay, which is timed rather than scored and pays a country rather than the four who ran it. It is the federation's money rather than hers, and it is not added to the $56,250 at the top of this page. Sheran alongside Gela Hambese, and the Diamond League has paid them too. The cross country page holds all 10 races across two championships and the $620,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Hirut Meshesha
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 1500 m | 12 | 2 | 2021 to 2025 | $34,500 |
| Women's 5000 m | 8 | - | 2024 to 2026 | $14,500 |
| Women's 2 miles | 1 | - | 2026 | $6,000 |
| Women's mile | 1 | - | 2023 | $750 |
| Women's 3000 m | 4 | - | 2024 to 2026 | $500 |
The women's 1500 m has paid Hirut Meshesha $34,500 of the $56,250, which is 61% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2021 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | - | Athletissima | $1,000 |
| 2022 | 5 | 2 | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $25,500 |
| 2023 | 5 | - | Bauhausgalan | $7,500 |
| 2024 | 3 | - | Doha Diamond League | $2,750 |
| 2025 | 6 | - | Xiamen Diamond League | $9,000 |
| 2026 | 6 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $10,500 |
season running total
2022 is the biggest of them, $25,500 from five starts. Every season from 2021 to 2026 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $56,250.
Around Hirut Meshesha on the money list
Ranks 526 to 566
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 526 | Maryam Yusuf Jamal | three disciplines | 4 | $58,500 |
| 527 | Phyllis Francis | two disciplines | - | $58,500 |
| 528 | Svetlana Feofanova | Women's pole vault | 2 | $58,500 |
| 529 | Nicole Büchler | Women's pole vault | 1 | $58,083 |
| 530 | Addison Wiley | three disciplines | 1 | $58,000 |
| 531 | Jonathan Borlée | two disciplines | 1 | $58,000 |
| 532 | Vincent Kiprop Chepkok | two disciplines | 2 | $58,000 |
| 533 | Wallace Spearmon | two disciplines | 2 | $58,000 |
| 534 | Ashley Spencer | two disciplines | 2 | $57,500 |
| 535 | Christina Clemons | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $57,500 |
| 536 | Taoufik Makhloufi | three disciplines | 1 | $57,500 |
| 537 | Amos Serem | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $57,250 |
| 538 | Aman Wote | two disciplines | 1 | $57,000 |
| 539 | Dejen Gebremeskel | Men's 5000 m | 3 | $57,000 |
| 540 | Malika Akkaoui | two disciplines | - | $57,000 |
| 541 | Saly Sarr | Women's triple jump | 2 | $57,000 |
| 542 | Isiah Young | two disciplines | - | $56,750 |
| 543 | Oliver Hoare | two disciplines | 1 | $56,750 |
| 544 | Bayapo Ndori | Men's 400 m | 1 | $56,500 |
| 545 | Charlie Dobson | two disciplines | 2 | $56,250 |
| 546 | Hirut Meshesha | five disciplines | 2 | $56,250 |
| 547 | Ilya Ivanyuk | Men's high jump | 2 | $56,250 |
| 548 | Michelle-Lee Ahye | two disciplines | 1 | $56,250 |
| 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 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Hirut Meshesha is 546th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $56,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Hirut Meshesha most
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2022 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 1500 m, one of fifteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Freweyni Hailu, Axumawit Embaye, Georgia Griffith, Claudia Bobocea, Habitam Alemu and Winnie Nanyondo.
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2022 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 1500 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Axumawit Embaye, Laura Muir, Ciara Mageean, Cory McGee, Gaia Sabbatini and Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal.
Prefontaine Classic 2026 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 2 miles, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Shelby Houlihan, Marta Alemayo, Margot Appleton, Karissa Schweizer, Yenawa Nbret and Asayech Ayichew.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Hirut Meshesha won?
$56,250, which ranks 546th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 19 paid finishes between 2021 and 2026.
What is Hirut Meshesha's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 1500 m at the 2022 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat. 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 Hirut Meshesha 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 Hirut Meshesha won?
Two of 26, worth $20,000 between them. Two of her appearances came at a final, which paid $4,000.
Has Hirut Meshesha ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Seven 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.
Is this everything Hirut Meshesha earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Cross Country 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 Hirut Meshesha is Charlie Dobson on $56,250, and one below Ilya Ivanyuk on $56,250. Hirut Meshesha 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 2 miles 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 Hirut Meshesha has been paid in five 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 Prefontaine Classic 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 5000 metres page. Cross country prize money is the Belgrade 2024 and Tallahassee 2026 championships, $620,000 put up across 10 races, half of it a runner's and half of it a federation's, and the race is on the mixed relay page.