Mohammed Ahmed prize money
Mohammed Ahmed has been paid $10,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 819th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from six paid finishes in the men's 5000 m, men's 3000 m and men's mile, the best of them 3rd.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2024 | 3000 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2024 | 5000 m | 7th | $750 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2023 | 5000 m | 10th | — |
| Herculis EBS 2023 | 5000 m | 10th | — |
| Prefontaine Classic 2022 | 5000 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2022 | 5000 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2021 | 5000 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2021 | Mile | 10th | — |
| Athletissima 2021 | 3000 m | 9th | — |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2019 | 5000 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| All ten | three disciplines | — | $10,500 |
The six paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $10,500 is six 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. Four of the ten starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Mohammed Ahmed did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 10,000 metres | — | DNF | — |
Mohammed Ahmed stood in one 2025 World Championships final in Tokyo and finished outside the money. The championships pay eight places, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th, and nothing at all below that. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The World Cross Country Championships
What Mohammed Ahmed ran on the grass
| RACE | PLACE | MARK | EARNED | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior men's race | — | DNF | — | — |
Mohammed Ahmed has run one race here and was paid nothing in his own name. Only the first six across the line are, $30,000 for the win down to $3,000 for 6th, and there is no appearance money underneath it. No team standing he ran in finished inside the first six, which is as far as that ladder reaches: $20,000 to the winning country down to $4,000 for 6th, and every dollar of it a federation's. The cross country page holds all 10 races across two championships and the $620,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Mohammed Ahmed
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 m | 7 | — | 2019 to 2024 | $9,500 |
| Men's 3000 m | 2 | — | 2021 to 2024 | $1,000 |
| Men's mile | 1 | — | 2021 | $0 |
The men's 5000 m has paid Mohammed Ahmed $9,500 of the $10,500, which is 90% 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 | 1 | — | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $2,000 |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 3 | — | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $3,500 |
| 2022 | 2 | — | Prefontaine Classic | $3,250 |
| 2023 | 2 | — | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | — |
| 2024 | 2 | — | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $1,750 |
season running total
2021 is the biggest of them, $3,500 from three starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Mohammed Ahmed in 2020 and 2023, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $10,500.
Around Mohammed Ahmed on the money list
Ranks 799 to 839
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 799 | Adel Mechaal | four disciplines | — | $11,250 |
| 800 | Anita Horvat | two disciplines | — | $11,250 |
| 801 | Pål Haugen Lillefosse | Men's pole vault | — | $11,250 |
| 802 | Brittany Crew | Women's shot put | — | $11,000 |
| 803 | Djilali Bedrani | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $11,000 |
| 804 | Edinah Jebitok | four disciplines | — | $11,000 |
| 805 | Fatoumata Binta Diallo | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $11,000 |
| 806 | Fausto Desalu | Men's 200 m | — | $11,000 |
| 807 | Marione Fourie | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $11,000 |
| 808 | Ola Stunes Isene | Men's discus throw | — | $11,000 |
| 809 | Pascal Martinot-Lagarde | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $11,000 |
| 810 | Radek Juška | Men's long jump | — | $11,000 |
| 811 | Vanessa Kamga | Women's discus throw | — | $11,000 |
| 812 | Maja Åskag | two disciplines | — | $10,750 |
| 813 | Mohamed Tindouft | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $10,750 |
| 814 | Tianna Bartoletta | two disciplines | 1 | $10,750 |
| 815 | Andressa de Morais | Women's discus throw | — | $10,500 |
| 816 | Artur Felfner | Men's javelin throw | — | $10,500 |
| 817 | Edwin Kurgat | two disciplines | — | $10,500 |
| 818 | Genki Dean | Men's javelin throw | — | $10,500 |
| 819 | Mohammed Ahmed | three disciplines | — | $10,500 |
| 820 | Yuki Hashioka | Men's long jump | — | $10,500 |
| 821 | Malik James-King | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $10,250 |
| 822 | Marike Steinacker | Women's discus throw | — | $10,250 |
| 823 | Philip Milanov | Men's discus throw | — | $10,250 |
| 824 | Adaejah Hodge | two disciplines | — | $10,000 |
| 825 | Ana Peleteiro | Women's triple jump | — | $10,000 |
| 826 | Anna Kiełbasińska | two disciplines | — | $10,000 |
| 827 | Eda Tuğsuz | Women's javelin throw | — | $10,000 |
| 828 | Freweyni Gebreezibeher | Women's 1500 m | 1 | $10,000 |
| 829 | Hannah Nuttall | two disciplines | — | $10,000 |
| 830 | Ignacio Fontes | two disciplines | — | $10,000 |
| 831 | Jessika Gbai | Women's 200 m | — | $10,000 |
| 832 | Jo-Ané van Dyk | Women's javelin throw | — | $10,000 |
| 833 | Jonah Koech | Men's 1500 m | 1 | $10,000 |
| 834 | Marta García | four disciplines | — | $10,000 |
| 835 | Matthew Wilkinson | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $10,000 |
| 836 | Mercy Cherono | Women's 3000 m | 1 | $10,000 |
| 837 | Mikhail Akimenko | Men's high jump | 1 | $10,000 |
| 838 | Nathan Strother | Men's 400 m | — | $10,000 |
| 839 | Nathon Allen | Men's 400 m | — | $10,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Mohammed Ahmed is 819th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $10,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Mohammed Ahmed most
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2021 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 5000 m, one of fifteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Mohamed Katir, Justyn Knight, Joshua Cheptegei, Birhanu Balew, Robert Kiprop and Yemaneberhan Crippa.
Prefontaine Classic 2022 paid $2,000 for 4th in the 5000 m, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Getnet Wale, Matthew Ramsden, Brett Robinson, Sam Parsons, Geordie Beamish and Luis Grijalva.
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2019 paid $2,000 for 6th in the 5000 m, one of 19 in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Edward Zakayo Pingua, Andrew Butchart, Yemaneberhan Crippa, Justyn Knight, Ben True and Bethwell Birgen.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Mohammed Ahmed won?
$10,500, which ranks 819th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from six paid finishes between 2019 and 2024.
What is Mohammed Ahmed's biggest Diamond League payday?
$3,500, for finishing 3rd in the 5000 m at the 2021 Golden Gala Pietro Mennea. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 3rd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Mohammed Ahmed 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 place is worth the same in the men'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 Mohammed Ahmed ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Four 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. He are in the result tables on this site either way.
Is this everything Mohammed Ahmed earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 meetings. The World Cross Country 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 2,112 athletes across the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Mohammed Ahmed is Genki Dean on $10,500, and one below Yuki Hashioka on $10,500. Mohammed Ahmed is one of 34 Canada athletes athletics has paid, and Canada athletics prize money adds them up to $1,449,500 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 5000 m prize money, men's 3000 m prize money and men's mile prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Mohammed Ahmed has been paid in three 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 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 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 10,000 metres page. Cross country prize money is the Belgrade 2024 and Tallahassee 2026 championships, $620,000 put up across 10 races, half of it a runner's and half of it a federation's, and the race is on the senior men's race page.