Mekides Abebe prize money
Mekides Abebe has been paid $18,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1189th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from seven paid finishes in the women's 3000 m steeplechase 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2023 | 3000 m steeplechase | 7th | $750 |
| Doha Diamond League 2023 | 3000 m steeplechase | 8th | $500 |
| Athletissima 2023 | 3000 m steeplechase | 11th | - |
| Prefontaine Classic 2022 | 3000 m steeplechase | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Meeting de Paris 2022 | 3000 m steeplechase | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Doha Diamond League 2022 | 3000 m | 9th | - |
| Doha Diamond League 2021 | 3000 m steeplechase | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2021 | 3000 m steeplechase | 4th | $4,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2021 | 3000 m steeplechase | 8th | $500 |
| All nine | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
The seven paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $18,750 is seven separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.02% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the nine starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Mekides Abebe
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 8 | - | 2021 to 2023 | $18,750 |
| Women's 3000 m | 1 | - | 2022 | $0 |
The women's 3000 m steeplechase has paid Mekides Abebe $18,750 of the $18,750, which is 100% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2021 to 2023, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | - | Doha Diamond League | $10,500 |
| 2022 | 3 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $7,000 |
| 2023 | 3 | - | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $1,250 |
season running total
2021 is the biggest of them, $10,500 from three starts. Every season from 2021 to 2023 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $18,750.
Around Mekides Abebe on the money list
Ranks 1169 to 1209
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1169 | Tia Hellebaut | Women's high jump | - | $19,500 |
| 1170 | Yvette Lewis | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $19,500 |
| 1171 | Dylan Beard | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $19,250 |
| 1172 | Fantu Worku | two disciplines | - | $19,250 |
| 1173 | Heather MacLean | two disciplines | - | $19,250 |
| 1174 | Lisanne de Witte | Women's 400 m | - | $19,250 |
| 1175 | Oliver Helander | Men's javelin throw | - | $19,250 |
| 1176 | Asmir Kolašinac | Men's shot put | - | $19,000 |
| 1177 | Boris Berian | Men's 800 m | 1 | $19,000 |
| 1178 | Cole Walsh | Men's pole vault | - | $19,000 |
| 1179 | Elvira Herman | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $19,000 |
| 1180 | Gabriela Petrova | Women's triple jump | - | $19,000 |
| 1181 | Jasmine Jones | two disciplines | - | $19,000 |
| 1182 | Joanna Atkins | two disciplines | - | $19,000 |
| 1183 | Kalkidan Gezahegne | two disciplines | - | $19,000 |
| 1184 | Parker Wolfe | two disciplines | 1 | $19,000 |
| 1185 | Robert Gregory | Men's 200 m | - | $19,000 |
| 1186 | Brahim Kaazouzi | Men's 1500 m | 1 | $18,750 |
| 1187 | Lamara Distin | Women's high jump | - | $18,750 |
| 1188 | Lynna Irby | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1189 | Mekides Abebe | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1190 | Michaela Meijer | Women's pole vault | - | $18,750 |
| 1191 | Shane Brathwaite | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $18,750 |
| 1192 | Zerfe Wondemagegn | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1193 | Charlene Lipsey | Women's 800 m | - | $18,500 |
| 1194 | Christin Wurth-Thomas | two disciplines | 1 | $18,500 |
| 1195 | Khadevis Robinson | Men's 800 m | 1 | $18,500 |
| 1196 | Lyukman Adams | Men's triple jump | 2 | $18,500 |
| 1197 | Michael Bingham | Men's 400 m | - | $18,500 |
| 1198 | Sheri-Ann Brooks | two disciplines | - | $18,500 |
| 1199 | Dariya Derkach | Women's triple jump | - | $18,250 |
| 1200 | Susan Ejore | Women's 1500 m | - | $18,250 |
| 1201 | Timothé Mumenthaler | two disciplines | - | $18,250 |
| 1202 | Worknesh Mesele | three disciplines | - | $18,250 |
| 1203 | Vita Styopina | Women's high jump | - | $18,083 |
| 1204 | Oksana Okuneva | Women's high jump | - | $18,050 |
| 1205 | Brahim Taleb | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $18,000 |
| 1206 | Brigitte Ann Foster-Hylton | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1207 | Cyréna Samba-Mayela | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $18,000 |
| 1208 | Egide Ntakarutimana | two disciplines | - | $18,000 |
| 1209 | Ewa Swoboda | Women's 100 m | - | $18,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Mekides Abebe is 1189th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $18,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Mekides Abebe most
Doha Diamond League 2021 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Winfred Yavi, Hyvin Jepkemoi, Emma Coburn, Maruša Mišmaš-Zrimšek, Gesa Felicitas Krause and Peruth Chemutai.
Weltklasse Zürich 2021 paid $4,000 for 4th in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Celliphine Chespol, Winfred Yavi, Peruth Chemutai, Rosefline Chepngetich, Gesa Felicitas Krause and Purity Cherotich Kirui.
Prefontaine Classic 2022 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Peruth Chemutai, Werkuha Getachew, Celliphine Chespol, Jackline Chepkoech, Emma Coburn and Courtney Frerichs.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Mekides Abebe won?
$18,750, which ranks 1189th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from seven paid finishes between 2021 and 2023.
What is Mekides Abebe's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2021 Doha 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 2nd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Mekides Abebe 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 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.
Has Mekides Abebe 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.
Is this everything Mekides Abebe earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 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 3,683 athletes across the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Mekides Abebe is Lynna Irby on $18,750, and one below Michaela Meijer on $18,750. Mekides Abebe 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 and women's 3000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Mekides Abebe 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 Golden Gala Pietro Mennea has its own page across every edition of it.