Selemon Barega prize money
Selemon Barega has been paid $85,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 166th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from 17 paid finishes in the men's 5000 m, men's 3000 m and men's 2 miles, 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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
The 17 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $85,750 is 17 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.2% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the 19 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Selemon Barega did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 10,000 metres | 6th | 28:57.21 | $7,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Selemon Barega $7,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $85,750 from 19 Diamond League starts between 2019 and 2025. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Selemon Barega
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 m | 12 | 2 | 2019 to 2024 | $59,250 |
| Men's 3000 m | 5 | 1 | 2019 to 2024 | $20,500 |
| Men's 2 miles | 1 | — | 2021 | $6,000 |
| Men's 1500 m | 1 | — | 2025 | $0 |
The men's 5000 m has paid Selemon Barega $59,250 of the $85,750, which is 69% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2019 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | 1 | Oslo Bislett Games | $33,000 |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 2 | — | Prefontaine Classic | $7,250 |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 | Meeting de Paris | $15,500 |
| 2023 | 5 | — | Doha Diamond League | $15,750 |
| 2024 | 3 | 1 | Diamond League Shanghai | $14,250 |
| 2025 | 1 | — | London Athletics Meet | — |
season running total
2019 is the biggest of them, $33,000 from five starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Selemon Barega in 2020 and 2025, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $85,750.
Around Selemon Barega on the money list
Ranks 146 to 186
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 146 | Janieve Russell | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $97,000 |
| 147 | Chris Nilsen | Men's pole vault | 2 | $96,750 |
| 148 | Emma Zapletalová | Women's 400 m hurdles | 5 | $96,500 |
| 149 | Kyron McMaster | two disciplines | 1 | $96,250 |
| 150 | Mutaz Barsham | Men's high jump | 7 | $95,833 |
| 151 | Jorinde van Klinken | two disciplines | 1 | $94,000 |
| 152 | Lamecha Girma | five disciplines | 6 | $94,000 |
| 153 | Johannes Vetter | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $93,000 |
| 154 | Abraham Kibiwot | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $92,500 |
| 155 | Amy Hunt | two disciplines | — | $92,500 |
| 156 | Berihu Aregawi | three disciplines | 4 | $91,750 |
| 157 | Niels Laros | three disciplines | 3 | $91,000 |
| 158 | Nelly Chepchirchir | two disciplines | 4 | $90,750 |
| 159 | Jereem Richards | two disciplines | — | $88,000 |
| 160 | Birke Haylom | four disciplines | 3 | $87,000 |
| 161 | Emmanuel Eseme | Men's 100 m | 2 | $87,000 |
| 162 | Peruth Chemutai | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $86,750 |
| 163 | Grace Stark | Women's 100 m hurdles | 3 | $86,500 |
| 164 | Gianna Woodruff | Women's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $86,000 |
| 165 | Birhanu Balew | two disciplines | 2 | $85,750 |
| 166 | Selemon Barega | four disciplines | 3 | $85,750 |
| 167 | Hagos Gebrhiwet | Men's 5000 m | 3 | $85,500 |
| 168 | Diribe Welteji | three disciplines | 4 | $85,250 |
| 169 | Payton Otterdahl | Men's shot put | 2 | $83,750 |
| 170 | Anna Ryzhykova | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $83,500 |
| 171 | Hyvin Jepkemoi | two disciplines | 4 | $82,500 |
| 172 | Joshua Cheptegei | three disciplines | 2 | $82,500 |
| 173 | Kelsey-Lee Barber | Women's javelin throw | 1 | $82,500 |
| 174 | Yan Ziyi | Women's javelin throw | 5 | $82,500 |
| 175 | Juan Miguel Echevarría | Men's long jump | 3 | $82,000 |
| 176 | Maggie Ewen | Women's shot put | 1 | $82,000 |
| 177 | Devon Allen | Men's 110 m hurdles | 4 | $81,500 |
| 178 | Thea LaFond | Women's triple jump | 1 | $81,500 |
| 179 | Orlando Ortega | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $81,000 |
| 180 | CJ Allen | two disciplines | 1 | $80,750 |
| 181 | Daniel Roberts | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $79,750 |
| 182 | Ferguson Rotich | two disciplines | 2 | $79,250 |
| 183 | Devynne Charlton | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $78,750 |
| 184 | Ferdinand Omanyala | Men's 100 m | 2 | $78,250 |
| 185 | Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith | two disciplines | 1 | $78,250 |
| 186 | Sada Williams | Women's 400 m | — | $78,250 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Selemon Barega is 166th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $85,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Selemon Barega most
Diamond League Shanghai 2024 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Biniam Mehary, Benson Kiplangat, Kuma Girma, Samwel Chebolei Masai, Mike Foppen and Morgan McDonald.
Meeting de Paris 2022 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Thierry Ndikumwenayo, Muktar Edris, Jimmy Gressier, Addisu Yihune, Geordie Beamish and Mike Foppen.
Oslo Bislett Games 2019 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 3000 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Joshua Cheptegei, Nicholas Kimeli, Henrik Ingebrigtsen, Birhanu Balew, Stewart McSweyn and Drew Hunter.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Selemon Barega won?
$85,750, which ranks 166th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from 17 paid finishes between 2019 and 2025.
What is Selemon Barega's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 5000 m at the 2024 Diamond League Shanghai. 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 Selemon Barega gets paid?
Entirely by where he 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 men'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.
How many Diamond League meetings has Selemon Barega won?
Three of 19, worth $30,000 between them. Two of his appearances came at a final, which paid $7,500.
Has Selemon Barega ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Two 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. He are in the result tables on this site either way.
How much did Selemon Barega win at the 2025 World Championships?
$7,000, from one paid final in Tokyo. The championships pay eight places in every event, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th.
Is this everything Selemon Barega earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 meetings. The World 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 him, 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 Selemon Barega is Birhanu Balew on $85,750, and one below Hagos Gebrhiwet on $85,500. Selemon Barega is one of 95 Ethiopia athletes athletics has paid, and Ethiopia athletics prize money adds them up to $3,242,000 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 5000 m prize money, men's 3000 m prize money, men's 2 miles prize money and men's 1500 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Selemon Barega has been paid in four of them. The biggest of the rest are men's 100 m, men's pole vault and men's 800 m. Every meeting he has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and London Athletics Meet 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 men's 10,000 metres page.