Nigist Getachew prize money
Nigist Getachew has been paid $4,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 2219th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from two paid finishes in the women's 800 m and women's 1500 m, the best of them 6th.
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 | 800 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2026 | 800 m | 11th | - |
| Bauhausgalan 2026 | 800 m | 9th | - |
| Diamond League Shanghai 2025 | 800 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2024 | 1500 m | 11th | - |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2024 | 1500 m | 13th | - |
| All six | two disciplines | - | $4,000 |
The two paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $4,000 is two separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.00% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Four of the six starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The Ultimate Championship
What Nigist Getachew did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 800 metres | 8th | 1:59.50 | - |
Nigist Getachew stood in one Ultimate Championship final in Budapest and finished outside the money. World Athletics pays the first three in each event, $150,000, $75,000 and $40,000, and publishes no rate below third, so there is no figure to put against where she finished. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
The World Indoor Championships
What Nigist Getachew did indoors, 2025 and 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 800 metres | 2nd | 1:59.63 | $20,000 |
| Women's 800 metres | 4th | 1:59.73 | $8,000 |
The World Indoor Championships have paid Nigist Getachew $28,000 for two finishes across Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026, against $4,000 from six Diamond League starts between 2024 and 2026. Three days indoors paid her more than any whole Diamond League season has. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Nigist Getachew
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 800 m | 4 | - | 2025 to 2026 | $4,000 |
| Women's 1500 m | 2 | - | 2024 | $0 |
The women's 800 m has paid Nigist Getachew $4,000 of the $4,000, which is 100% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2024 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | - | Meeting de Paris | - |
| 2025 | 1 | - | Diamond League Shanghai | $2,000 |
| 2026 | 3 | - | Doha Diamond League | $2,000 |
season running total
2025 is the biggest of them, $2,000 from one start. No Diamond League meeting paid Nigist Getachew in 2024, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $4,000.
Around Nigist Getachew on the money list
Ranks 2199 to 2239
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2199 | Jeshua Anderson | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $4,000 |
| 2200 | Jessica Turner | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $4,000 |
| 2201 | Jonathan Quarcoo | two disciplines | - | $4,000 |
| 2202 | Julia Bleasdale | Women's 3000 m | - | $4,000 |
| 2203 | Julian Reid | two disciplines | - | $4,000 |
| 2204 | Karol Zalewski | two disciplines | - | $4,000 |
| 2205 | Ken Toyoda | Men's 300 m hurdles | - | $4,000 |
| 2206 | Kenta Bell | Men's triple jump | - | $4,000 |
| 2207 | Keshia Kirtz | Women's 400 m | - | $4,000 |
| 2208 | Konstantinos Douvalidis | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $4,000 |
| 2209 | Krishna Poonia | Women's discus throw | - | $4,000 |
| 2210 | Kurt Leone Couto | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $4,000 |
| 2211 | Louise Maraval | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $4,000 |
| 2212 | Luiz Maurício da Silva | Men's javelin throw | - | $4,000 |
| 2213 | Luke Gunn | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $4,000 |
| 2214 | Marcos Chuva | Men's long jump | - | $4,000 |
| 2215 | Mareks Ārents | Men's pole vault | - | $4,000 |
| 2216 | Mathilde Andraud | Women's javelin throw | - | $4,000 |
| 2217 | Nguse Amlosom | Men's 5000 m | - | $4,000 |
| 2218 | Nia Robinson | Women's long jump | - | $4,000 |
| 2219 | Nigist Getachew | two disciplines | - | $4,000 |
| 2220 | Patricia Silva | Women's 1500 m | - | $4,000 |
| 2221 | Pavel Lyzhyn | Men's shot put | - | $4,000 |
| 2222 | Phara Anacharsis | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $4,000 |
| 2223 | Pieter-Jan Hannes | Men's mile | - | $4,000 |
| 2224 | Rebekka Haase | Women's 200 m | - | $4,000 |
| 2225 | Renée Eykens | Women's 800 m | - | $4,000 |
| 2226 | Roisin Willis | Women's 800 m | - | $4,000 |
| 2227 | Romell Glave | Men's 100 m | - | $4,000 |
| 2228 | Ryan Shields | Men's 100 m | - | $4,000 |
| 2229 | Sarah Carli | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $4,000 |
| 2230 | Sarvesh Kushare | Men's high jump | - | $4,000 |
| 2231 | Savannah Sutherland | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $4,000 |
| 2232 | Seren Bundy-Davies | Women's 400 m | - | $4,000 |
| 2233 | Shakeema Walker-Welsch | Women's triple jump | - | $4,000 |
| 2234 | Shelayna Oskan-Clarke | Women's 800 m | - | $4,000 |
| 2235 | Sileshi Sihine | Men's 5000 m | - | $4,000 |
| 2236 | Stanley Mburu | Men's 5000 m | - | $4,000 |
| 2237 | Stephen Mokoka | Men's 5000 m | - | $4,000 |
| 2238 | Susanna Kallur | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $4,000 |
| 2239 | Teklemariam Medhin | Men's 5000 m | - | $4,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Nigist Getachew is 2219th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $4,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Nigist Getachew most
Doha Diamond League 2026 paid $2,000 for 6th in the 800 m, one of twelve in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Rénelle Lamote, Shafiqua Maloney, Lore Hoffmann, Saida Tsehaye, Addison Wiley and Tsige Duguma.
Diamond League Shanghai 2025 paid $2,000 for 6th in the 800 m, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Sage Hurta-Klecker, Habitam Alemu, Noélie Yarigo, Saron Berhe, Tsige Duguma and Sarah Billings.
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2026 paid $0 for 11th in the 800 m, one of twelve in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Addison Wiley, Audrey Werro, Tsige Duguma, Lilian Odira, Oratile Nowe and Anaïs Bourgoin.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Nigist Getachew won?
$4,000, which ranks 2219th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from two paid finishes between 2024 and 2026.
What is Nigist Getachew's biggest Diamond League payday?
$2,000, for finishing 6th in the Diamond+ 800 m at the 2026 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 6th and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Nigist Getachew 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 800 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 Nigist Getachew 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. Those starts are in the result tables on this site either way.
How much has Nigist Getachew won at the World Indoor Championships?
$28,000, from two paid finals across Toruń 2026 and Nanjing 2025. An indoor title pays $40,000 and the ladder runs six places deep, down to $4,000 for 6th, the same in every event on the programme and the same for a relay team.
Is this everything Nigist Getachew earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Indoor 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 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 Nigist Getachew is Nia Robinson on $4,000, and one below Patricia Silva on $4,000. Nigist Getachew 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 800 m prize money and women's 1500 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Nigist Getachew 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. Ultimate Championship prize money is the 2026 championship in Budapest, $10,000,000 over three days, and the full final is on the women's 800 metres page. Indoor championships prize money is the Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026 championships, $4,664,000 put up across 53 finals, and the indoor final is on the women's 800 metres page.