Nozomi Tanaka prize money
Nozomi Tanaka has been paid $13,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1395th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from seven paid finishes in the women's 5000 m, women's 1500 m and women's 3000 m, 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 she finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2026 | 5000 m | 18th | - |
| Herculis EBS 2026 | 3000 m | 13th | - |
| London Athletics Meet 2026 | 3000 m | 13th | - |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2026 | 5000 m | 14th | - |
| London Athletics Meet 2025 | 5000 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2025 | 1500 m | 14th | - |
| Bauhausgalan 2025 | 3000 m | 11th | - |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2025 | 5000 m | 9th | - |
| Herculis 2024 | 5000 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 | 5000 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2024 | 5000 m | 7th | $750 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2024 | 1500 m | 8th | $500 |
| Doha Diamond League 2024 | 5000 m | 11th | - |
| Prefontaine Classic 2024 | 5000 m | 11th | - |
| Bislett Games 2024 | 3000 m | 10th | - |
| Bauhausgalan 2024 | 1500 m | 9th | - |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2024 | 1500 m | 12th | - |
| Memorial Van Damme 2023 | 5000 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2023 | 5000 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2022 | 1500 m | 15th | - |
| All 20 | three disciplines | - | $13,750 |
The seven paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $13,750 is seven 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. Thirteen of the 20 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Nozomi Tanaka did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 metres | 12th | 15:07.34 | - |
Nozomi Tanaka 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 Indoor Championships
What Nozomi Tanaka did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 3000 metres | 10th | 8:47.93 | - |
| Women's 3000 metres | 13th | 9:07.77 | - |
Nozomi Tanaka stood in two World Indoor Championships finals and finished outside the money. The championships pay six places, $40,000 for a title down to $4,000 for 6th, and nothing at all below that. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
The World Cross Country Championships
What Nozomi Tanaka ran on the grass
| RACE | PLACE | MARK | EARNED | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed relay | - | 23:18 | - | - |
Nozomi Tanaka has run one race here and was paid nothing in her 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 mixed relay she ran in finished inside the first four, which is as far as that ladder reaches: $12,000 to the winning country down to $4,000 for 4th, 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 Nozomi Tanaka
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 m | 11 | - | 2023 to 2026 | $13,250 |
| Women's 1500 m | 5 | - | 2022 to 2025 | $500 |
| Women's 3000 m | 4 | - | 2024 to 2026 | $0 |
The women's 5000 m has paid Nozomi Tanaka $13,250 of the $13,750, which is 96% 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 | - | Prefontaine Classic | - |
| 2023 | 2 | - | Memorial Van Damme | $5,500 |
| 2024 | 9 | - | Herculis | $6,750 |
| 2025 | 4 | - | London Athletics Meet | $1,500 |
| 2026 | 4 | - | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | - |
season running total
2024 is the biggest of them, $6,750 from nine starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Nozomi Tanaka in 2022 and 2026, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $13,750.
Around Nozomi Tanaka on the money list
Ranks 1375 to 1415
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1375 | Lawrence Kemboi | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $14,000 |
| 1376 | Leonard Kirwa Kosencha | Men's 800 m | 1 | $14,000 |
| 1377 | Marian Oprea | Men's triple jump | - | $14,000 |
| 1378 | Märt Israel | Men's discus throw | - | $14,000 |
| 1379 | Olesya Povh | two disciplines | - | $14,000 |
| 1380 | Oratile Nowe | Women's 800 m | - | $14,000 |
| 1381 | Rafael Pereira | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $14,000 |
| 1382 | Ricardo Chambers | Men's 400 m | - | $14,000 |
| 1383 | Sarah Chelangat | two disciplines | - | $14,000 |
| 1384 | Sebastian Bayer | Men's long jump | - | $14,000 |
| 1385 | Sergey Makarov | Men's javelin throw | - | $14,000 |
| 1386 | Simon Pettersson | Men's discus throw | - | $14,000 |
| 1387 | Valentin Lavillenie | Men's pole vault | - | $14,000 |
| 1388 | Alex Wilson | two disciplines | - | $13,750 |
| 1389 | Anita Horvat | two disciplines | - | $13,750 |
| 1390 | Imke Onnen | Women's high jump | - | $13,750 |
| 1391 | Liu Junxi | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $13,750 |
| 1392 | Luis Grijalva | three disciplines | - | $13,750 |
| 1393 | Marta Alemayo | three disciplines | - | $13,750 |
| 1394 | Matthew Hughes | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $13,750 |
| 1395 | Nozomi Tanaka | three disciplines | - | $13,750 |
| 1396 | Payton Chadwick | two disciplines | - | $13,750 |
| 1397 | Zhu Yaming | Men's triple jump | - | $13,750 |
| 1398 | Aisha Praught-Leer | two disciplines | - | $13,500 |
| 1399 | Aleen Bailey | two disciplines | - | $13,500 |
| 1400 | Aleksandra Kiryashova | Women's pole vault | - | $13,500 |
| 1401 | Andrew Butchart | two disciplines | - | $13,500 |
| 1402 | Bridget Franek | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $13,500 |
| 1403 | Cynthia Bolingo | Women's 400 m | 1 | $13,500 |
| 1404 | Isa Phillips | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $13,500 |
| 1405 | Jessica Ramsey | Women's shot put | - | $13,500 |
| 1406 | Jessie Knight | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $13,500 |
| 1407 | Jordan Anthony | Men's 100 m | - | $13,500 |
| 1408 | Konstantinos Baniotis | Men's high jump | - | $13,500 |
| 1409 | Ristananna Tracey | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $13,500 |
| 1410 | Samson Oni | Men's high jump | - | $13,500 |
| 1411 | Simona la Mantia | Women's triple jump | - | $13,500 |
| 1412 | Song Jiayuan | Women's shot put | - | $13,500 |
| 1413 | Yansheng Yang | Men's pole vault | 1 | $13,500 |
| 1414 | Ebba Jungmark | Women's high jump | - | $13,250 |
| 1415 | Isaiah Harris | Men's 800 m | 1 | $13,250 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Nozomi Tanaka is 1395th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $13,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Nozomi Tanaka most
Herculis 2024 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 5000 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Fantaye Belayneh, Nadia Battocletti, Melknat Wudu, Marta Alemayo, Senayet Getachew and Weini Kelati.
Memorial Van Damme 2023 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 5000 m, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Winnie Jemutai, Ayal Dagnachew, Mekedes Alemeshete, Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal, Jessica Warner-Judd and Edinah Jebitok.
AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 paid $2,000 for 6th in the 5000 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Melknat Wudu, Karissa Schweizer, Tsigie Gebreselama, Beatrice Chebet, Medina Eisa and Fotyen Tesfay.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Nozomi Tanaka won?
$13,750, which ranks 1395th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from seven paid finishes between 2022 and 2026.
What is Nozomi Tanaka's biggest Diamond League payday?
$3,500, for finishing 3rd in the 5000 m at the 2024 Herculis. 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 Nozomi Tanaka 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 Nozomi Tanaka ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Thirteen 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 Nozomi Tanaka earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 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 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 Nozomi Tanaka is Matthew Hughes on $13,750, and one below Payton Chadwick on $13,750. Nozomi Tanaka is one of 40 Japan athletes athletics has paid, and Japan athletics prize money adds them up to $780,167 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 5000 m prize money, women's 1500 m prize money and women's 3000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Nozomi Tanaka has been paid in three 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. 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 women's 5000 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 3000 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 mixed relay page.