Lamecha Girma prize money
Lamecha Girma has been paid $94,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 342nd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from twelve paid finishes in the men's 3000 m steeplechase, men's 3000 m and men's 5000 m, six 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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xiamen Diamond League 2024 | 5000 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2024 | 3000 m steeplechase | 1st | $10,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2024 | 1500 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2024 | Mile | 13th | - |
| Doha Diamond League 2023 | 3000 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2023 | 3000 m steeplechase | 1st | $10,000 |
| Athletissima 2023 | 1500 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2022 | 3000 m steeplechase | 1st | $10,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2022 | 3000 m steeplechase | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2022 | 3000 m steeplechase | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Herculis EBS 2021 | 3000 m steeplechase | 1st | $10,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2019 | 3000 m steeplechase | 3rd | $10,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2019 | 3000 m steeplechase | 3rd | $4,000 |
| All thirteen | five disciplines | - | $94,000 |
The twelve paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $94,000 is twelve separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.08% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the thirteen starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Lamecha Girma did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 3000 metres steeplechase | 6th | 8:35.60 | $7,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Lamecha Girma $7,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $94,000 from thirteen Diamond League starts between 2019 and 2024. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Lamecha Girma
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 8 | 4 | 2019 to 2024 | $66,000 |
| Men's 3000 m | 1 | 1 | 2023 | $10,000 |
| Men's 5000 m | 1 | 1 | 2024 | $10,000 |
| Men's 1500 m | 2 | - | 2023 to 2024 | $8,000 |
| Men's mile | 1 | - | 2024 | $0 |
The men's 3000 m steeplechase has paid Lamecha Girma $66,000 of the $94,000, which is 70% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2019 to 2024, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $14,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | Herculis EBS | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $22,000 |
| 2023 | 3 | 2 | Doha Diamond League | $26,000 |
| 2024 | 4 | 2 | Xiamen Diamond League | $22,000 |
season running total
2023 is the biggest of them, $26,000 from three starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Lamecha Girma in 2020, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $94,000.
Around Lamecha Girma on the money list
Ranks 322 to 362
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 322 | Lieke Klaver | Women's 400 m | - | $98,750 |
| 323 | Fabrice Lapierre | Men's long jump | 2 | $98,000 |
| 324 | Juan Miguel Echevarría | Men's long jump | 4 | $98,000 |
| 325 | Gia Lewis-Smallwood | Women's discus throw | 1 | $97,500 |
| 326 | Adriana Vilagoš | Women's javelin throw | 2 | $97,250 |
| 327 | Donald Thomas | Men's high jump | 1 | $97,208 |
| 328 | Feng Bin | Women's discus throw | 3 | $97,000 |
| 329 | Kellie Wells | Women's 100 m hurdles | 2 | $97,000 |
| 330 | Tyson Gay | two disciplines | 8 | $97,000 |
| 331 | Chris Nilsen | Men's pole vault | 2 | $96,750 |
| 332 | Emma Zapletalová | Women's 400 m hurdles | 5 | $96,500 |
| 333 | Joshua Cheptegei | three disciplines | 2 | $96,500 |
| 334 | Shannon Rowbury | four disciplines | 2 | $96,500 |
| 335 | Julius Yego | Men's javelin throw | 2 | $96,000 |
| 336 | Zharnel Hughes | two disciplines | 2 | $95,500 |
| 337 | Mujinga Kambundji | two disciplines | 1 | $95,250 |
| 338 | Ronald Levy | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $94,750 |
| 339 | Cleopatra Borel | Women's shot put | - | $94,500 |
| 340 | Yargelis Savigne | two disciplines | 7 | $94,500 |
| 341 | Jorinde van Klinken | two disciplines | 1 | $94,000 |
| 342 | Lamecha Girma | five disciplines | 6 | $94,000 |
| 343 | Sanya Richards-Ross | two disciplines | 5 | $93,500 |
| 344 | Luguelín Santos | Men's 400 m | 1 | $93,000 |
| 345 | Amy Hunt | two disciplines | - | $92,500 |
| 346 | Christophe Lemaitre | two disciplines | 1 | $92,500 |
| 347 | Chaunte Lowe | Women's high jump | 5 | $92,000 |
| 348 | Berihu Aregawi | three disciplines | 4 | $91,750 |
| 349 | Peruth Chemutai | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $91,750 |
| 350 | L. J. van Zyl | Men's 400 m hurdles | 2 | $91,500 |
| 351 | Niels Laros | three disciplines | 3 | $91,000 |
| 352 | Nelly Chepchirchir | two disciplines | 4 | $90,750 |
| 353 | Levern Spencer | Women's high jump | 1 | $90,508 |
| 354 | Jake Wightman | four disciplines | 4 | $90,250 |
| 355 | Jeremy Wariner | Men's 400 m | 7 | $90,000 |
| 356 | Ameer Webb | two disciplines | 3 | $89,500 |
| 357 | Habitam Alemu | three disciplines | - | $89,500 |
| 358 | Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa | two disciplines | 1 | $89,500 |
| 359 | Imane Merga | two disciplines | 4 | $88,500 |
| 360 | Birke Haylom | four disciplines | 3 | $87,000 |
| 361 | Emmanuel Eseme | Men's 100 m | 2 | $87,000 |
| 362 | Grace Stark | Women's 100 m hurdles | 3 | $86,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Lamecha Girma is 342nd of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $94,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Lamecha Girma most
Xiamen Diamond League 2024 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of 18 in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Nicholas Kimeli, Birhanu Balew, Samwel Chebolei Masai, Addisu Yihune, Cornelius Kemboi and Ronald Kwemoi.
Bauhausgalan 2024 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Samuel Firewu, Mohamed Amin Jhinaoui, Getnet Wale, Mohamed Tindouft, Geordie Beamish and Hillary Bor.
Doha Diamond League 2023 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 3000 m, one of twelve in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Selemon Barega, Berihu Aregawi, Soufiane El Bakkali, Timothy Cheruiyot, Getnet Wale and Andreas Almgren.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Lamecha Girma won?
$94,000, which ranks 342nd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from twelve paid finishes between 2019 and 2024.
What is Lamecha Girma's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 5000 m at the 2024 Xiamen Diamond League. 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 Lamecha Girma gets paid?
Entirely by where he 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 men'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.
How many Diamond League meetings has Lamecha Girma won?
Six of thirteen, worth $60,000 between them. One of his appearance came at a final, which paid $10,000.
Has Lamecha Girma 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 Lamecha Girma win at the 2025 World Championships?
$7,000, 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 Lamecha Girma 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 him, 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 Lamecha Girma is Jorinde van Klinken on $94,000, and one below Sanya Richards-Ross on $93,500. Lamecha Girma 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 men's 3000 m steeplechase prize money, men's 3000 m prize money, men's 5000 m prize money, men's 1500 m prize money and men's mile prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Lamecha Girma has been paid in five of them. The biggest of the rest are men's 100 m, men's pole vault and men's 800 m. Every meeting he has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Xiamen Diamond League 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 men's 3000 metres steeplechase page.