Sarah Chelangat prize money
Sarah Chelangat has been paid $14,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 727th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from four paid finishes in the women's 3000 m and women's 5000 m, the best of them 2nd.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bauhausgalan 2025 | 3000 m | 2nd | $10,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2023 | 5000 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| Bislett Games 2023 | 3000 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2023 | 3000 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| All four | two disciplines | — | $14,000 |
The four paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $14,000 is four separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.03% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The World Championships
What Sarah Chelangat did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 10,000 metres | — | DNF | — |
Sarah Chelangat 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 Sarah Chelangat ran on the grass, 2024 and 2026
| RACE | PLACE | MARK | EARNED | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior women's race | 5th | 32:00 | $5,000 | $12,000 |
| Senior women's race | 9th | 33:20 | — | $12,000 |
The championships have paid Sarah Chelangat $5,000 of her own, for one finish inside the first six. A senior race pays $30,000 to win and $3,000 for 6th, and nothing at all to the seventh runner home. The teams she ran on earned Uganda $24,000, all of it from a team standing, which is settled on the places of the first four runners a country gets home. It is the federation's money rather than hers, and it is not added to the $14,000 at the top of this page. 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 Sarah Chelangat
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 3000 m | 3 | — | 2023 to 2025 | $12,000 |
| Women's 5000 m | 1 | — | 2023 | $2,000 |
The women's 3000 m has paid Sarah Chelangat $12,000 of the $14,000, which is 86% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2023 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | — | Bauhausgalan | $4,000 |
| 2024 | — | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 1 | — | Bauhausgalan | $10,000 |
season running total
2025 is the biggest of them, $10,000 from one start. No Diamond League meeting paid Sarah Chelangat in 2024, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $14,000.
Around Sarah Chelangat on the money list
Ranks 707 to 747
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 707 | Khaleb McRae | Men's 400 m | — | $15,000 |
| 708 | Nelson Évora | Men's triple jump | — | $15,000 |
| 709 | Obi Igbokwe | Men's 400 m | — | $15,000 |
| 710 | Torrie Lewis | two disciplines | 1 | $15,000 |
| 711 | Jake Heyward | two disciplines | — | $14,750 |
| 712 | Wang Yu | Men's high jump | 1 | $14,750 |
| 713 | Alicia Monson | two disciplines | — | $14,500 |
| 714 | Caleb Dean | two disciplines | — | $14,500 |
| 715 | Kendry Menéndez | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $14,500 |
| 716 | Matic Ian Guček | two disciplines | — | $14,500 |
| 717 | Sinclaire Johnson | three disciplines | — | $14,500 |
| 718 | Alice Finot | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $14,250 |
| 719 | Deon Lendore | Men's 400 m | — | $14,250 |
| 720 | Katie Snowden | three disciplines | — | $14,250 |
| 721 | Maboundou Koné | Women's 200 m | — | $14,250 |
| 722 | Vincent Kibet | two disciplines | — | $14,250 |
| 723 | Anvar Anvarov | Men's long jump | 1 | $14,000 |
| 724 | Elise Thorner | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $14,000 |
| 725 | Oratile Nowe | Women's 800 m | — | $14,000 |
| 726 | Rafael Pereira | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $14,000 |
| 727 | Sarah Chelangat | two disciplines | — | $14,000 |
| 728 | Daniel Rowden | Men's 800 m | — | $13,750 |
| 729 | Imke Onnen | Women's high jump | — | $13,750 |
| 730 | Liu Junxi | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $13,750 |
| 731 | Luis Grijalva | three disciplines | — | $13,750 |
| 732 | Marta Alemayo | three disciplines | — | $13,750 |
| 733 | Nicola McDermott | Women's high jump | — | $13,750 |
| 734 | Nozomi Tanaka | three disciplines | — | $13,750 |
| 735 | Payton Chadwick | two disciplines | — | $13,750 |
| 736 | Zhu Yaming | Men's triple jump | — | $13,750 |
| 737 | Cynthia Bolingo | Women's 400 m | 1 | $13,500 |
| 738 | Jessie Knight | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $13,500 |
| 739 | Jordan Anthony | Men's 100 m | — | $13,500 |
| 740 | Maggie Malone-Hardin | Women's javelin throw | — | $13,500 |
| 741 | Nadine Müller | Women's discus throw | — | $13,500 |
| 742 | Paul Chelimo | three disciplines | — | $13,500 |
| 743 | Song Jiayuan | Women's shot put | — | $13,500 |
| 744 | Chala Beyo | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $13,250 |
| 745 | Eilish McColgan | four disciplines | — | $13,250 |
| 746 | Isaiah Harris | Men's 800 m | 1 | $13,250 |
| 747 | İsmail Nezir | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $13,250 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Sarah Chelangat is 727th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $14,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Sarah Chelangat most
Bauhausgalan 2025 paid $10,000 for 2nd in the 3000 m, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Innes FitzGerald, Hannah Nuttall, Caroline Nyaga, Hellen Ekalale Lobun, Águeda Marqués and Marta García.
Bauhausgalan 2023 paid $2,000 for 4th in the 5000 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Jessica Hull, Tsigie Gebreselama, Melknat Wudu, Axumawit Embaye, Jessica Warner-Judd and Sarah Lahti.
Bislett Games 2023 paid $1,000 for 6th in the 3000 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Agnes Jebet Ngetich, Caroline Nyaga, Maureen Koster, Hawi Feysa, Jessica Warner-Judd and Beatrice Chebet.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Sarah Chelangat won?
$14,000, which ranks 727th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from four paid finishes between 2023 and 2025.
What is Sarah Chelangat's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 2nd in the Diamond+ 3000 m at the 2025 Bauhausgalan. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 2nd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Sarah Chelangat 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 3000 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.
Is this everything Sarah Chelangat 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 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 Sarah Chelangat is Rafael Pereira on $14,000, and one below Daniel Rowden on $13,750. Sarah Chelangat is one of 16 Uganda athletes athletics has paid, and Uganda athletics prize money adds them up to $514,750 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 3000 m prize money and women's 5000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Sarah Chelangat 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 800 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Bauhausgalan 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 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 women's race page.