Melknat Wudu prize money
Melknat Wudu has been paid $11,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1504th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from nine paid finishes in the women's 5000 m and women's 3000 m, the best of them 4th.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doha Diamond League 2026 | 5000 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| Doha Diamond League 2024 | 5000 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2024 | 5000 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 | 5000 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2024 | 5000 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Herculis 2024 | 5000 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2023 | 5000 m | 7th | $750 |
| London Athletics Meet 2023 | 5000 m | 7th | $750 |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2023 | 3000 m | 7th | $750 |
| Doha Diamond League 2022 | 3000 m | 10th | - |
| All ten | two disciplines | - | $11,500 |
The nine paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $11,500 is nine separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.01% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the ten starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Melknat Wudu
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 m | 8 | - | 2023 to 2026 | $10,750 |
| Women's 3000 m | 2 | - | 2022 to 2023 | $750 |
The women's 5000 m has paid Melknat Wudu $10,750 of the $11,500, which is 93% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2022 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | - | Doha Diamond League | - |
| 2023 | 3 | - | Bauhausgalan | $2,250 |
| 2024 | 5 | - | Doha Diamond League | $7,750 |
| 2025 | - | - | - | - |
| 2026 | 1 | - | Doha Diamond League | $1,500 |
season running total
2024 is the biggest of them, $7,750 from five starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Melknat Wudu in 2022 and 2025, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $11,500.
Around Melknat Wudu on the money list
Ranks 1484 to 1524
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1484 | Rouguy Diallo | Women's triple jump | - | $12,000 |
| 1485 | Xu Zhuoyi | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $12,000 |
| 1486 | Yemane Haileselassie | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $12,000 |
| 1487 | Damian Czykier | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $11,750 |
| 1488 | Elise Cranny | four disciplines | - | $11,750 |
| 1489 | Ersu Şaşma | Men's pole vault | - | $11,750 |
| 1490 | Fabian Schulze | Men's pole vault | - | $11,750 |
| 1491 | Marija Vuković | Women's high jump | - | $11,750 |
| 1492 | Olena Holosha | Women's high jump | - | $11,750 |
| 1493 | Tobia Bocchi | Men's triple jump | - | $11,750 |
| 1494 | Zenéy Geldenhuys | two disciplines | - | $11,750 |
| 1495 | Erick Portillo | Men's high jump | - | $11,583 |
| 1496 | Alastair Chalmers | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $11,500 |
| 1497 | Artur Noga | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $11,500 |
| 1498 | Charlie Grice | two disciplines | - | $11,500 |
| 1499 | Collis Birmingham | three disciplines | - | $11,500 |
| 1500 | Daniel Talbot | two disciplines | - | $11,500 |
| 1501 | Davide Re | Men's 400 m | - | $11,500 |
| 1502 | Greg Nixon | Men's 400 m | - | $11,500 |
| 1503 | Homiyu Tesfaye | two disciplines | - | $11,500 |
| 1504 | Melknat Wudu | two disciplines | - | $11,500 |
| 1505 | Natalia Ducó | Women's shot put | - | $11,500 |
| 1506 | Nathon Allen | Men's 400 m | - | $11,500 |
| 1507 | Nickiesha Wilson | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $11,500 |
| 1508 | Paul Kipngetich Tanui | two disciplines | - | $11,500 |
| 1509 | Pauline Chemning Korikwiang | two disciplines | - | $11,500 |
| 1510 | Priscah Jepleting Cherono | two disciplines | - | $11,500 |
| 1511 | Ralf Bartels | Men's shot put | - | $11,500 |
| 1512 | Salima el Ouali Alami | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $11,500 |
| 1513 | Serhiy Smelyk | Men's 200 m | 1 | $11,500 |
| 1514 | Tatyana Kotova | Women's long jump | - | $11,500 |
| 1515 | Wesley Vázquez | Men's 800 m | - | $11,500 |
| 1516 | Adel Mechaal | four disciplines | - | $11,250 |
| 1517 | Carolin Hingst | Women's pole vault | - | $11,250 |
| 1518 | Gatis Čakšs | Men's javelin throw | - | $11,250 |
| 1519 | JaCorian Duffield | Men's high jump | 1 | $11,250 |
| 1520 | Melissa Courtney-Bryant | four disciplines | - | $11,250 |
| 1521 | Pål Haugen Lillefosse | Men's pole vault | - | $11,250 |
| 1522 | Andrew Wheating | three disciplines | - | $11,000 |
| 1523 | Anna Kiełbasińska | two disciplines | - | $11,000 |
| 1524 | Antonietta di Martino | Women's high jump | - | $11,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Melknat Wudu is 1504th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $11,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Melknat Wudu most
Doha Diamond League 2024 paid $2,000 for 4th in the 5000 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Gela Hambese, Senayet Getachew, Aynadis Mebratu, Wubrist Aschal, Mekedes Alemeshete and Nozomi Tanaka.
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2024 paid $2,000 for 4th in the 5000 m, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Likina Amebaw, Maureen Koster, Nadia Battocletti, Gela Hambese, Frehiwot Gesese and Medina Eisa.
Doha Diamond League 2026 paid $1,500 for 7th in the 5000 m, one of sixteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Cynthia Chepkirui, Aynadis Mebratu, Yenawa Nbret, Fantaye Belayneh, Wubrist Aschal and Medina Eisa.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Melknat Wudu won?
$11,500, which ranks 1504th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from nine paid finishes between 2022 and 2026.
What is Melknat Wudu's biggest Diamond League payday?
$2,000, for finishing 4th in the 5000 m at the 2024 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 4th and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Melknat Wudu 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 Melknat Wudu 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.
Is this everything Melknat Wudu 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 Melknat Wudu is Homiyu Tesfaye on $11,500, and one below Natalia Ducó on $11,500. Melknat Wudu 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 5000 m prize money and women's 3000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Melknat Wudu 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 Doha Diamond League has its own page across every edition of it.