Sembo Almayew prize money
Sembo Almayew has been paid $53,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 588th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from thirteen paid finishes in the women's 3000 m steeplechase and women's 5000 m, one of them a win.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athletissima 2025 | 3000 m steeplechase | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2025 | 3000 m steeplechase | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2025 | 3000 m steeplechase | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2025 | 3000 m steeplechase | 5th | $2,500 |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2025 | 5000 m | 10th | - |
| Diamond League Shanghai 2024 | 3000 m steeplechase | 4th | $2,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2024 | 3000 m steeplechase | 4th | $2,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2023 | 3000 m steeplechase | 1st | $10,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2023 | 3000 m steeplechase | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Athletissima 2023 | 3000 m steeplechase | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2023 | 3000 m steeplechase | 7th | $1,500 |
| Meeting de Paris 2022 | 3000 m steeplechase | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2022 | 3000 m steeplechase | 6th | $2,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2022 | 3000 m steeplechase | 6th | $1,000 |
| All fourteen | two disciplines | - | $53,000 |
The thirteen paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $53,000 is thirteen separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.05% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the fourteen starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Sembo Almayew did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 3000 metres steeplechase | 3rd | 8:58.86 | $22,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Sembo Almayew $22,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $53,000 from fourteen Diamond League starts between 2022 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 Sembo Almayew
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 13 | 1 | 2022 to 2025 | $53,000 |
| Women's 5000 m | 1 | - | 2025 | $0 |
The women's 3000 m steeplechase has paid Sembo Almayew $53,000 of the $53,000, which is 100% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2022 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | - | Meeting de Paris | $9,000 |
| 2023 | 4 | 1 | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $23,500 |
| 2024 | 2 | - | Diamond League Shanghai | $4,000 |
| 2025 | 5 | - | Athletissima | $16,500 |
season running total
2023 is the biggest of them, $23,500 from four starts. Every season from 2022 to 2025 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $53,000.
Around Sembo Almayew on the money list
Ranks 568 to 608
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 568 | Dwight Thomas | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $54,500 |
| 569 | Ejgayehu Taye | two disciplines | - | $54,500 |
| 570 | Gabriel Tual | two disciplines | - | $54,500 |
| 571 | Kristin Pudenz | Women's discus throw | - | $54,500 |
| 572 | Ja'Kobe Tharp | Men's 110 m hurdles | 2 | $54,000 |
| 573 | Shakima Wimbley | Women's 400 m | - | $54,000 |
| 574 | Emily Grove | Women's pole vault | 1 | $53,750 |
| 575 | Filip Ingebrigtsen | five disciplines | - | $53,750 |
| 576 | Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko | Women's triple jump | - | $53,750 |
| 577 | Andrew Pozzi | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $53,500 |
| 578 | Clayton Murphy | three disciplines | - | $53,500 |
| 579 | Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie | two disciplines | - | $53,500 |
| 580 | Michael Hartfield | Men's long jump | 1 | $53,500 |
| 581 | Shelby McEwen | Men's high jump | 2 | $53,375 |
| 582 | Reece Prescod | two disciplines | 1 | $53,250 |
| 583 | Vashti Cunningham | Women's high jump | - | $53,250 |
| 584 | Christine Ohuruogu | Women's 400 m | 2 | $53,000 |
| 585 | Freddie Crittenden | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $53,000 |
| 586 | Kelly-Ann Baptiste | two disciplines | 1 | $53,000 |
| 587 | Quanesha Burks | Women's long jump | 1 | $53,000 |
| 588 | Sembo Almayew | two disciplines | 1 | $53,000 |
| 589 | Léa Sprunger | three disciplines | 1 | $52,750 |
| 590 | Jennifer Meadows | Women's 800 m | 2 | $52,500 |
| 591 | Żaneta Glanc | Women's discus throw | - | $52,500 |
| 592 | Adam Gemili | two disciplines | - | $52,000 |
| 593 | Björn Otto | Men's pole vault | 1 | $52,000 |
| 594 | Frank Casanas | Men's discus throw | 1 | $52,000 |
| 595 | Hillary Bor | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $52,000 |
| 596 | Johnny Dutch | Men's 400 m hurdles | 3 | $52,000 |
| 597 | Mariya Abakumova | Women's javelin throw | 5 | $52,000 |
| 598 | Melaine Walker | Women's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $52,000 |
| 599 | Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu | three disciplines | 3 | $51,750 |
| 600 | Abubaker Kaki | Men's 800 m | 3 | $51,500 |
| 601 | Shanice Craft | two disciplines | - | $51,500 |
| 602 | Tia Brooks-Wannemacher | Women's shot put | 2 | $51,500 |
| 603 | Erika Kinsey | Women's high jump | - | $51,333 |
| 604 | Tony McQuay | Men's 400 m | - | $51,250 |
| 605 | Martin Wierig | Men's discus throw | - | $51,000 |
| 606 | Tariku Bekele | two disciplines | 2 | $51,000 |
| 607 | Yekaterina Koneva | Women's triple jump | 1 | $51,000 |
| 608 | Roberta Bruni | Women's pole vault | - | $50,875 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Sembo Almayew is 588th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $53,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Sembo Almayew most
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2023 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Jackline Chepkoech, Zerfe Wondemagegn, Beatrice Chepkoech, Alice Finot, Maruša Mišmaš-Zrimšek and Mekides Abebe.
Athletissima 2025 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Olivia Markezich, Elise Thorner, Courtney Wayment, Alemnat Walle, Kinga Królik and Rihab Dhahri.
Doha Diamond League 2023 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Faith Cherotich, Beatrice Chepkoech, Maruša Mišmaš-Zrimšek, Zerfe Wondemagegn, Jackline Chepkoech and Mekides Abebe.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Sembo Almayew won?
$53,000, which ranks 588th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from thirteen paid finishes between 2022 and 2025.
What is Sembo Almayew's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2023 Golden Gala Pietro Mennea. 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 Sembo Almayew 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 Sembo Almayew won?
One of fourteen, worth $10,000 between them. Two of her appearances came at a final, which paid $3,500.
Has Sembo Almayew ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
One time. 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. That start is in the result table on this site either way.
How much did Sembo Almayew win at the 2025 World Championships?
$22,000, 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 Sembo Almayew 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 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 Sembo Almayew is Quanesha Burks on $53,000, and one below Léa Sprunger on $52,750. Sembo Almayew 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 3000 m steeplechase prize money and women's 5000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Sembo Almayew 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 400 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Athletissima 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.