Mekdes Bekele prize money

Memorial Van Damme 2010 paid $3,000 for 4th in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Lisa Aguilera, Lydia Chebet Rotich, Katarzyna Kowalska, Birtukan Adamu, Sofia Assefa and Milcah Chemos.

London Grand Prix 2011 paid $1,500 for 7th in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Emma Coburn, Milcah Chemos, Hiwot Ayalew, Mercy Wanjiku Njoroge, Lydia Chebet Rotich and Lidya Chepkurui.

Memorial van Damme 2011 paid $1,500 for 7th in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Lydia Chebet Rotich, Yuliya Zaripova, Habiba Ghribi, Mercy Wanjiku Njoroge, Sofia Assefa and Milcah Chemos.

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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 Mekdes Bekele is Mariem Alaoui Selsouli on $6,000, and one below Melker Svärd Jacobsson on $6,000. Mekdes Bekele 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 3000 m steeplechase prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Mekdes Bekele has been paid in one 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 Grand Prix has its own page across every edition of it.