Selemon Barega prize money
Selemon Barega has been paid $163,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 154th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 22 paid finishes in the men's 5000 m, men's 3000 m and men's 2 miles, five 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 22 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $163,750 is 22 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.1% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the 24 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 $163,750 from 24 Diamond League starts between 2017 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 | 17 | 4 | 2017 to 2024 | $137,250 |
| 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 $137,250 of the $163,750, which is 84% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2017 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | - | Athletissima | $12,000 |
| 2018 | 3 | 2 | AG Memorial Van Damme | $66,000 |
| 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
2018 is the biggest of them, $66,000 from three 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 $163,750.
Around Selemon Barega on the money list
Ranks 134 to 174
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 134 | Janieve Russell | Women's 400 m hurdles | 3 | $180,500 |
| 135 | Beatrice Chebet | three disciplines | 11 | $180,250 |
| 136 | Christina Obergföll | Women's javelin throw | 12 | $179,000 |
| 137 | Fedrick Dacres | Men's discus throw | 6 | $178,750 |
| 138 | Tianna Bartoletta | two disciplines | 8 | $177,750 |
| 139 | Larissa Iapichino | Women's long jump | 6 | $177,500 |
| 140 | Sally Pearson | Women's 100 m hurdles | 7 | $172,500 |
| 141 | Usain Bolt | two disciplines | 16 | $172,000 |
| 142 | Andriy Protsenko | Men's high jump | 3 | $171,250 |
| 143 | Emmanouil Karalis | Men's pole vault | 3 | $170,875 |
| 144 | Keely Hodgkinson | two disciplines | 9 | $170,500 |
| 145 | Marcin Lewandowski | four disciplines | 2 | $170,500 |
| 146 | Sarah Mitton | Women's shot put | 3 | $170,250 |
| 147 | Yuliya Levchenko | Women's high jump | 1 | $169,125 |
| 148 | Aaron Brown | two disciplines | 2 | $167,000 |
| 149 | Abeba Aregawi | four disciplines | 12 | $166,000 |
| 150 | David Rudisha | Men's 800 m | 14 | $166,000 |
| 151 | Neeraj Chopra | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $165,500 |
| 152 | Will Claye | two disciplines | 4 | $164,750 |
| 153 | Hansle Parchment | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $164,000 |
| 154 | Selemon Barega | four disciplines | 5 | $163,750 |
| 155 | Eunice Sum | two disciplines | 11 | $162,500 |
| 156 | Andrius Gudžius | Men's discus throw | 2 | $162,000 |
| 157 | Marco Arop | two disciplines | 5 | $162,000 |
| 158 | Anderson Peters | Men's javelin throw | 7 | $161,000 |
| 159 | Konstantinos Filippidis | Men's pole vault | 6 | $161,000 |
| 160 | Julian Weber | Men's javelin throw | 4 | $160,750 |
| 161 | Norah Jeruto | two disciplines | 6 | $160,750 |
| 162 | Tajay Gayle | Men's long jump | 4 | $160,250 |
| 163 | Sunette Viljoen | Women's javelin throw | 4 | $160,000 |
| 164 | Nickel Ashmeade | two disciplines | 6 | $159,500 |
| 165 | Jasmine Camacho-Quinn | Women's 100 m hurdles | 12 | $158,500 |
| 166 | Mike Rodgers | Men's 100 m | 1 | $157,000 |
| 167 | Brianna Rollins-McNeal | Women's 100 m hurdles | 6 | $155,000 |
| 168 | Abderrahman Samba | three disciplines | 7 | $154,500 |
| 169 | Jessica Schilder | Women's shot put | 5 | $153,250 |
| 170 | Silke Spiegelburg | Women's pole vault | 8 | $153,250 |
| 171 | Ruth Beitia | Women's high jump | 7 | $153,000 |
| 172 | Ruswahl Samaai | Men's long jump | 2 | $152,500 |
| 173 | Mary Moraa | three disciplines | 9 | $151,500 |
| 174 | Ryan Whiting | Men's shot put | 5 | $150,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Selemon Barega is 154th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $163,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Selemon Barega most
AG Memorial Van Damme 2018 paid $50,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Hagos Gebrhiwet, Yomif Kejelcha, Muktar Edris, Abadi Hadis, Paul Chelimo and Richard Yator.
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.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Selemon Barega won?
$163,750, which ranks 154th 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 2025.
What is Selemon Barega's biggest Diamond League payday?
$50,000, for finishing 1st in the 5000 m at the 2018 AG Memorial Van Damme. That is a final, which is why it is the biggest: the final pays two to five times what the same place is worth at a series meeting.
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?
Five of 24, worth $90,000 between them. Four of his appearances came at a final, which paid $63,500.
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. Those starts 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 224 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 3,683 athletes across the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Selemon Barega is Hansle Parchment on $164,000, and one below Eunice Sum on $162,500. Selemon Barega 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 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.