Netsanet Desta prize money
Netsanet Desta has been paid $750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1987th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from one paid finish in the women's 1500 m, and it was 7th.
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 de Paris 2025 | 1500 m | 12th | — |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2022 | 1500 m | 7th | $750 |
| All two | Women's 1500 m | — | $750 |
The one paid figure add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $750 is one separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.00% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the two starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Season by season
2022 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | — | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $750 |
| 2023 | — | — | — | — |
| 2024 | — | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 1 | — | Meeting de Paris | — |
season running total
2022 is the biggest of them, $750 from one start. No Diamond League meeting paid Netsanet Desta in 2023, 2024 and 2025, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $750.
Around Netsanet Desta on the money list
Ranks 1967 to 2007
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Hannah Jones | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $750 |
| 1968 | Hanne Claes | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $750 |
| 1969 | Harry Hughes | Men's javelin throw | — | $750 |
| 1970 | Heta Tuuri | Women's high jump | — | $750 |
| 1971 | Hicham Akankam | Men's 1500 m | — | $750 |
| 1972 | Jeremiah Curry | Men's 200 m | — | $750 |
| 1973 | Jesper Hellström | Men's triple jump | — | $750 |
| 1974 | Joe Ferguson | Men's 200 m | — | $750 |
| 1975 | Joseph Deng | Men's 800 m | — | $750 |
| 1976 | Julian Forte | Men's 200 m | — | $750 |
| 1977 | Laura Strati | Women's long jump | — | $750 |
| 1978 | Lilly Kaden | Women's 200 m | — | $750 |
| 1979 | Lionel Spitz | Men's 400 m | — | $750 |
| 1980 | Luca Sito | Men's 400 m | — | $750 |
| 1981 | Luke McCann | Men's 1000 m | — | $750 |
| 1982 | M. P. Jabir | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $750 |
| 1983 | Mariano García | Men's 800 m | — | $750 |
| 1984 | Melwin Lycke Holm | Men's high jump | — | $750 |
| 1985 | N'Ketia Seedo | Women's 100 m | — | $750 |
| 1986 | Naomi Metzger | Women's triple jump | — | $750 |
| 1987 | Netsanet Desta | Women's 1500 m | — | $750 |
| 1988 | Nikoleta Jíchová | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $750 |
| 1989 | Oleg Zernikel | Men's pole vault | — | $750 |
| 1990 | Oscar Chelimo | Men's 5000 m | — | $750 |
| 1991 | Parinya Chuaimaroeng | Women's triple jump | — | $750 |
| 1992 | Phil Healy | Women's 400 m | — | $750 |
| 1993 | Piotr Tarkowski | Men's long jump | — | $750 |
| 1994 | Rachel Baxter | Women's pole vault | — | $750 |
| 1995 | Rebecca Mehra | Women's mile | — | $750 |
| 1996 | Reynold Banigo | Men's long jump | — | $750 |
| 1997 | Ronda Whyte | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $750 |
| 1998 | Saad Hinti | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $750 |
| 1999 | Sara Lennman | Women's shot put | — | $750 |
| 2000 | Sarah Lahti | Women's 5000 m | — | $750 |
| 2001 | Subenrat Insaeng | Women's discus throw | — | $750 |
| 2002 | Tadese Worku | Men's 3000 m | — | $750 |
| 2003 | Tigist Ketema | two disciplines | — | $750 |
| 2004 | Vladimir Aceti | Men's 400 m | — | $750 |
| 2005 | Yanis David | Women's long jump | — | $750 |
| 2006 | Zhu Shenglong | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $750 |
| 2007 | Abdessamad Oukhelfen | Men's 5000 m | — | $500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Netsanet Desta is 1987th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Netsanet Desta most
Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2022 paid $750 for 7th in the 1500 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Adelle Tracey, Cory McGee, Habitam Alemu, Josette Andrews, Lemlem Hailu and Diribe Welteji.
Meeting de Paris 2025 paid $0 for 12th in the 1500 m, one of sixteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Georgia Griffith, Saron Berhe, Esther Guerrero, Abbey Caldwell, Nelly Chepchirchir and Sarah Healy.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Netsanet Desta won?
$750, which ranks 1987th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from one paid finish between 2022 and 2025.
What is Netsanet Desta's biggest Diamond League payday?
$750, for finishing 7th in the 1500 m at the 2022 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 7th and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Netsanet Desta 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 1500 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 Netsanet Desta 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. She is in the result table on this site either way.
Is this everything Netsanet Desta 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 Netsanet Desta is Naomi Metzger on $750, and one below Nikoleta Jíchová on $750. Netsanet Desta 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 1500 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Netsanet Desta 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 800 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Meeting de Paris has its own page across every edition of it.