Peruth Chemutai prize money
Peruth Chemutai has been paid $91,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 349th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 22 paid finishes in the women's 3000 m steeplechase, three of them wins.
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
The 22 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $91,750 is 22 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.08% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Three of the 25 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Peruth Chemutai did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 3000 metres steeplechase | - | DNF | - |
Peruth Chemutai 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 Olympic Games
What Peruth Chemutai won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Women's 3000 metres steeplechase | Silver | - |
The silver in the women's 3000 metres steeplechase paid nothing. Only a gold pays, so 97 of the 145 medals awarded on the athletics programme in Paris carried no money at all. The Olympic page holds all 48 golds, the $2,400,000 they paid and what the circuit pays the same champions.
Season by season
2017 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | - | Bislett Games | - |
| 2018 | 2 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $5,000 |
| 2019 | 2 | - | IAAF Diamond League Shanghai | $5,500 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 3 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $2,750 |
| 2022 | 1 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $2,000 |
| 2023 | 3 | - | Athletissima | $3,500 |
| 2024 | 5 | 1 | Prefontaine Classic | $32,500 |
| 2025 | 3 | - | Meeting de Paris | $11,500 |
| 2026 | 5 | 2 | Shanghai Diamond League | $29,000 |
season running total
2024 is the biggest of them, $32,500 from five starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Peruth Chemutai in 2017 and 2020, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $91,750.
Around Peruth Chemutai on the money list
Ranks 329 to 369
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 329 | Kellie Wells | Women's 100 m hurdles | 2 | $97,000 |
| 330 | Tyson Gay | two disciplines | 8 | $97,000 |
| 331 | Chris Nilsen | Men's pole vault | 2 | $96,750 |
| 332 | Emma Zapletalová | Women's 400 m hurdles | 5 | $96,500 |
| 333 | Joshua Cheptegei | three disciplines | 2 | $96,500 |
| 334 | Shannon Rowbury | four disciplines | 2 | $96,500 |
| 335 | Julius Yego | Men's javelin throw | 2 | $96,000 |
| 336 | Zharnel Hughes | two disciplines | 2 | $95,500 |
| 337 | Mujinga Kambundji | two disciplines | 1 | $95,250 |
| 338 | Ronald Levy | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $94,750 |
| 339 | Cleopatra Borel | Women's shot put | - | $94,500 |
| 340 | Yargelis Savigne | two disciplines | 7 | $94,500 |
| 341 | Jorinde van Klinken | two disciplines | 1 | $94,000 |
| 342 | Lamecha Girma | five disciplines | 6 | $94,000 |
| 343 | Sanya Richards-Ross | two disciplines | 5 | $93,500 |
| 344 | Luguelín Santos | Men's 400 m | 1 | $93,000 |
| 345 | Amy Hunt | two disciplines | - | $92,500 |
| 346 | Christophe Lemaitre | two disciplines | 1 | $92,500 |
| 347 | Chaunte Lowe | Women's high jump | 5 | $92,000 |
| 348 | Berihu Aregawi | three disciplines | 4 | $91,750 |
| 349 | Peruth Chemutai | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $91,750 |
| 350 | L. J. van Zyl | Men's 400 m hurdles | 2 | $91,500 |
| 351 | Niels Laros | three disciplines | 3 | $91,000 |
| 352 | Nelly Chepchirchir | two disciplines | 4 | $90,750 |
| 353 | Levern Spencer | Women's high jump | 1 | $90,508 |
| 354 | Jake Wightman | four disciplines | 4 | $90,250 |
| 355 | Jeremy Wariner | Men's 400 m | 7 | $90,000 |
| 356 | Ameer Webb | two disciplines | 3 | $89,500 |
| 357 | Habitam Alemu | three disciplines | - | $89,500 |
| 358 | Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa | two disciplines | 1 | $89,500 |
| 359 | Imane Merga | two disciplines | 4 | $88,500 |
| 360 | Birke Haylom | four disciplines | 3 | $87,000 |
| 361 | Emmanuel Eseme | Men's 100 m | 2 | $87,000 |
| 362 | Grace Stark | Women's 100 m hurdles | 3 | $86,500 |
| 363 | Gianna Woodruff | Women's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $86,000 |
| 364 | Meseret Defar | three disciplines | 5 | $86,000 |
| 365 | Phillips Idowu | Men's triple jump | 6 | $86,000 |
| 366 | Evan Jager | three disciplines | 1 | $85,500 |
| 367 | Diribe Welteji | three disciplines | 4 | $85,250 |
| 368 | Philip Milanov | Men's discus throw | 3 | $85,250 |
| 369 | Maggie Ewen | Women's shot put | 1 | $84,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Peruth Chemutai is 349th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $91,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Peruth Chemutai most
Shanghai Diamond League 2026 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of 17 in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Faith Cherotich, Marwa Bouzayani, Kena Tufa, Alemnat Walle, Norah Jeruto and Parul Chaudhary.
Xiamen Diamond League 2026 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of 17 in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Winfred Yavi, Faith Cherotich, Marwa Bouzayani, Kena Tufa, Norah Jeruto and Lexy Halladay-Lowry.
Prefontaine Classic 2024 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of sixteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Beatrice Chepkoech, Faith Cherotich, Sembo Almayew, Valerie Constien, Courtney Wayment and Gabrielle Jennings.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Peruth Chemutai won?
$91,750, which ranks 349th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 22 paid finishes between 2017 and 2026.
What is Peruth Chemutai's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2026 Shanghai 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 1st and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Peruth Chemutai 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 win is worth the same in the women's 3000 m steeplechase 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.
How many Diamond League meetings has Peruth Chemutai won?
Three of 25, worth $30,000 between them. Four of her appearances came at a final, which paid $14,000.
Has Peruth Chemutai ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Three 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 Peruth Chemutai 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 Peruth Chemutai is Berihu Aregawi on $91,750, and one below L. J. van Zyl on $91,500. Peruth Chemutai is one of 19 Uganda athletes athletics has paid, and Uganda athletics prize money adds them up to $599,750 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 3000 m steeplechase prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Peruth Chemutai 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 400 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Shanghai Diamond League 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 3000 metres steeplechase page.