Lemlem Hailu prize money
Lemlem Hailu has been paid $13,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 751st of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from five paid finishes in the women's 5000 m, women's 3000 m and women's 1500 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 | 13th | — |
| Bauhausgalan 2023 | 5000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2023 | 3000 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2023 | 5000 m | 5th | $2,500 |
| Meeting de Paris 2023 | 5000 m | 7th | $750 |
| Doha Diamond League 2023 | 1500 m | 11th | — |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2022 | 1500 m | 14th | — |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2021 | 1500 m | 8th | $500 |
| Doha Diamond League 2019 | 3000 m | 9th | — |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2019 | 1500 m | 12th | — |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2019 | 1500 m | 11th | — |
| All eleven | three disciplines | — | $13,250 |
The five paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $13,250 is five separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.02% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. Six of the eleven starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Lemlem Hailu
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 m | 3 | — | 2023 | $9,250 |
| Women's 3000 m | 3 | — | 2019 to 2025 | $3,500 |
| Women's 1500 m | 5 | — | 2019 to 2023 | $500 |
The women's 5000 m has paid Lemlem Hailu $9,250 of the $13,250, which is 70% 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 | 3 | — | Doha Diamond League | — |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 1 | — | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $500 |
| 2022 | 1 | — | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | — |
| 2023 | 5 | — | Bauhausgalan | $12,750 |
| 2024 | — | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 1 | — | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | — |
season running total
2023 is the biggest of them, $12,750 from five starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Lemlem Hailu in 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2025, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $13,250.
Around Lemlem Hailu on the money list
Ranks 731 to 771
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 731 | Luis Grijalva | three disciplines | — | $13,750 |
| 732 | Marta Alemayo | three disciplines | — | $13,750 |
| 733 | Nicola McDermott | Women's high jump | — | $13,750 |
| 734 | Nozomi Tanaka | three disciplines | — | $13,750 |
| 735 | Payton Chadwick | two disciplines | — | $13,750 |
| 736 | Zhu Yaming | Men's triple jump | — | $13,750 |
| 737 | Cynthia Bolingo | Women's 400 m | 1 | $13,500 |
| 738 | Jessie Knight | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $13,500 |
| 739 | Jordan Anthony | Men's 100 m | — | $13,500 |
| 740 | Maggie Malone-Hardin | Women's javelin throw | — | $13,500 |
| 741 | Nadine Müller | Women's discus throw | — | $13,500 |
| 742 | Paul Chelimo | three disciplines | — | $13,500 |
| 743 | Song Jiayuan | Women's shot put | — | $13,500 |
| 744 | Chala Beyo | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $13,250 |
| 745 | Eilish McColgan | four disciplines | — | $13,250 |
| 746 | Isaiah Harris | Men's 800 m | 1 | $13,250 |
| 747 | İsmail Nezir | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $13,250 |
| 748 | Jean-Marc Pontvianne | Men's triple jump | — | $13,250 |
| 749 | Jodie Williams | two disciplines | — | $13,250 |
| 750 | Julia Henriksson | two disciplines | — | $13,250 |
| 751 | Lemlem Hailu | three disciplines | — | $13,250 |
| 752 | Leungo Scotch | Men's 400 m | — | $13,250 |
| 753 | Berke Akçam | two disciplines | — | $13,000 |
| 754 | Jaël Bestué | two disciplines | — | $13,000 |
| 755 | Jimmy Vicaut | Men's 100 m | — | $13,000 |
| 756 | Jonielle Smith | Women's 100 m | — | $13,000 |
| 757 | Marta Pérez | two disciplines | — | $13,000 |
| 758 | Michelle Carter | Women's shot put | 1 | $13,000 |
| 759 | Olha Lyakhova | Women's 800 m | — | $13,000 |
| 760 | Stacey-Ann Williams | Women's 400 m | — | $13,000 |
| 761 | Vincent Ciattei | two disciplines | — | $13,000 |
| 762 | Aminatou Seyni | two disciplines | — | $12,750 |
| 763 | Iryna Zhuk | Women's pole vault | — | $12,750 |
| 764 | Joshua Hartmann | two disciplines | — | $12,750 |
| 765 | Anita Márton | Women's shot put | — | $12,500 |
| 766 | Christine Botlogetswe | Women's 400 m | — | $12,500 |
| 767 | Cory McGee | two disciplines | — | $12,500 |
| 768 | Courtney Okolo | Women's 400 m | — | $12,500 |
| 769 | Jaydon Hibbert | Men's triple jump | — | $12,500 |
| 770 | Kethobogile Haingura | two disciplines | — | $12,500 |
| 771 | Lachlan Kennedy | Men's 100 m | — | $12,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Lemlem Hailu is 751st of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $13,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Lemlem Hailu most
Bauhausgalan 2023 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 5000 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Medina Eisa, Sarah Chelangat, Jessica Hull, Tsigie Gebreselama, Melknat Wudu and Axumawit Embaye.
Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2023 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 3000 m, one of sixteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Teresia Muthoni Gateri, Margaret Akidor, Sarah Chelangat, Agate Caune, Mekedes Alemeshete and Aimee Pratt.
Prefontaine Classic 2023 paid $2,500 for 5th in the 5000 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Nozomi Tanaka, Alicia Monson, Weini Kelati, Gudaf Tsegay, Beatrice Chebet and Ejgayehu Taye.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Lemlem Hailu won?
$13,250, which ranks 751st of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from five paid finishes between 2019 and 2025.
What is Lemlem Hailu's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the 5000 m at the 2023 Bauhausgalan. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 2nd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Lemlem Hailu 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 Lemlem Hailu ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Six 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. She are in the result tables on this site either way.
Is this everything Lemlem Hailu earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 meetings. It holds no championship prize money, 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 Lemlem Hailu is Julia Henriksson on $13,250, and one below Leungo Scotch on $13,250. Lemlem Hailu 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, women's 3000 m prize money and women's 1500 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Lemlem Hailu has been paid in three 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.