Saron Berhe prize money
Saron Berhe has been paid $16,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1295th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from six paid finishes in the women's 1500 m, women's 800 m and women's mile, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doha Diamond League 2026 | 1500 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2026 | 1500 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Shanghai Diamond League 2026 | 1500 m | 13th | - |
| Prefontaine Classic 2026 | Mile | 11th | - |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2026 | 1500 m | 11th | - |
| Doha Diamond League 2025 | 1500 m | 4th | $5,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2025 | 1500 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| Diamond League Shanghai 2025 | 800 m | 11th | - |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2025 | 1500 m | 10th | - |
| Meeting de Paris 2025 | 1500 m | 14th | - |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2024 | 1500 m | 8th | $500 |
| Doha Diamond League 2024 | 1500 m | 13th | - |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2023 | 1500 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Memorial Van Damme 2023 | 1500 m | 11th | - |
| All fourteen | three disciplines | - | $16,000 |
The six paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $16,000 is six 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. Eight of the fourteen starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The Ultimate Championship
What Saron Berhe did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 1500 metres | 10th | 4:00.28 | - |
Saron Berhe 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.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Saron Berhe
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 1500 m | 12 | - | 2023 to 2026 | $16,000 |
| Women's 800 m | 1 | - | 2025 | $0 |
| Women's mile | 1 | - | 2026 | $0 |
The women's 1500 m has paid Saron Berhe $16,000 of the $16,000, which is 100% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2023 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | - | Xiamen Diamond League | $1,000 |
| 2024 | 2 | - | Xiamen Diamond League | $500 |
| 2025 | 5 | - | Doha Diamond League | $6,500 |
| 2026 | 5 | - | Doha Diamond League | $8,000 |
season running total
2026 is the biggest of them, $8,000 from five starts. Every season from 2023 to 2026 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $16,000.
Around Saron Berhe on the money list
Ranks 1275 to 1315
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1275 | Nadezhda Dubovitskaya | Women's high jump | - | $16,250 |
| 1276 | Amálie Švábíková | Women's pole vault | - | $16,000 |
| 1277 | Ashton Eaton | three disciplines | - | $16,000 |
| 1278 | Baptiste Thiery | Men's pole vault | - | $16,000 |
| 1279 | Barnabas Kipyego | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $16,000 |
| 1280 | Ezinne Okparaebo | Women's 100 m | - | $16,000 |
| 1281 | Fabrizio Schembri | Men's triple jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1282 | Gerald Drummond | two disciplines | 1 | $16,000 |
| 1283 | Jak Ali Harvey | Men's 100 m | 1 | $16,000 |
| 1284 | Josephine Terlecki | Women's shot put | - | $16,000 |
| 1285 | Kafétien Gomis | Men's long jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1286 | Lea Meyer | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $16,000 |
| 1287 | Mariya Savinova | Women's 800 m | 4 | $16,000 |
| 1288 | Mason Finley | Men's discus throw | - | $16,000 |
| 1289 | Mickaël Hanany | Men's high jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1290 | Mohamed Moustaoui | two disciplines | - | $16,000 |
| 1291 | Morten Jensen | Men's long jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1292 | Radek Juška | Men's long jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1293 | Saida Tsehaye | Women's 800 m | - | $16,000 |
| 1294 | Samantha Henry-Robinson | two disciplines | - | $16,000 |
| 1295 | Saron Berhe | three disciplines | - | $16,000 |
| 1296 | Yosiris Urrutia | Women's triple jump | - | $16,000 |
| 1297 | Yuliya Zaripova | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $16,000 |
| 1298 | Jan Štefela | Men's high jump | - | $15,958 |
| 1299 | Brian Komen | Men's 1500 m | 1 | $15,750 |
| 1300 | Deon Lendore | Men's 400 m | - | $15,750 |
| 1301 | Dusty Jonas | Men's high jump | - | $15,750 |
| 1302 | Kaylin Whitney | two disciplines | - | $15,750 |
| 1303 | Paulien Couckuyt | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $15,750 |
| 1304 | Tonje Angelsen | Women's high jump | - | $15,583 |
| 1305 | Adam Nelson | Men's shot put | - | $15,500 |
| 1306 | Aleksandra Fedoriva-Spayer | Women's 200 m | - | $15,500 |
| 1307 | Brittany Crew | Women's shot put | - | $15,500 |
| 1308 | Courtney Wayment | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $15,500 |
| 1309 | Felisha Johnson | Women's shot put | - | $15,500 |
| 1310 | Gabriele Grunewald | two disciplines | - | $15,500 |
| 1311 | Huang Changzhou | Men's long jump | - | $15,500 |
| 1312 | Jorge A. Hodelín | Men's long jump | - | $15,500 |
| 1313 | Meselech Melkamu | two disciplines | - | $15,500 |
| 1314 | Olga Kucherenko | Women's long jump | 2 | $15,500 |
| 1315 | Olha Lyakhova | Women's 800 m | - | $15,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Saron Berhe is 1295th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $16,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Saron Berhe most
Doha Diamond League 2026 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 1500 m, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Haregeweyni Kalayu, Gesa Felicitas Krause, Águeda Marqués, Gaia Sabbatini, Marta Zenoni and Aster Areri.
Doha Diamond League 2025 paid $5,000 for 4th in the 1500 m, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Agathe Guillemot, Elsabet Amare, Teresia Muthoni Gateri, Tigist Girma, Adelle Tracey and Nelly Chepchirchir.
Xiamen Diamond League 2026 paid $2,000 for 6th in the 1500 m, one of fifteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Gabija Galvydytė, Linden Hall, Revée Walcott-Nolan, Sarah Billings, Claudia Hollingsworth and Worknesh Mesele.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Saron Berhe won?
$16,000, which ranks 1295th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from six paid finishes between 2023 and 2026.
What is Saron Berhe's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the 1500 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 2nd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Saron Berhe 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 Saron Berhe ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Eight 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 Saron Berhe 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 Saron Berhe is Samantha Henry-Robinson on $16,000, and one below Yosiris Urrutia on $16,000. Saron Berhe 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 1500 m prize money, women's 800 m prize money and women's mile prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Saron Berhe 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 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 1500 metres page.