Sifan Hassan prize money
Sifan Hassan has been paid $196,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 42nd of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from sixteen paid finishes in the women's 1500 m, women's 5000 m and women's 3000 m, eight 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 she finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prefontaine Classic 2024 | 5000 m | 7th | $750 |
| London Athletics Meet 2023 | 5000 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2022 | 3000 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Athletissima 2022 | 3000 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2021 | 1500 m | 2nd | $12,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2021 | 1500 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Allianz Memorial Van Damme 2021 | Mile | 1st | $10,000 |
| Herculis EBS 2021 | 1500 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2019 | 1500 m | 1st | $50,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2019 | 5000 m | 1st | $50,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2019 | 3000 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Herculis 2019 | Mile | 1st | $10,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2019 | 1500 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Müller Anniversary Games 2019 | 5000 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| IAAF Diamond League Shanghai 2019 | 1500 m | 5th | $2,500 |
| Meeting de Paris 2018 | 800 m | 10th | — |
| Meeting de Paris 2017 | 1500 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| All 17 | five disciplines | — | $196,750 |
The sixteen paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $196,750 is sixteen separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.4% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the 17 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The Olympic Games
What Sifan Hassan won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Women's marathon | Gold | $50,000 |
| Women's 5000 metres | Bronze | — |
| Women's 10,000 metres | Bronze | — |
Sifan Hassan was paid $50,000 for the women's marathon in Paris, the first Games at which an athletics title carried prize money at all. Every one of the 48 golds paid the same $50,000. The bronze in the women's 5000 metres and the bronze in the women's 10,000 metres paid nothing. Only a gold pays, so 97 of the 145 medals awarded on the athletics programme in Paris carried no money at all. The Olympic page holds all 48 golds, the $2,400,000 they paid and what the circuit pays the same champions.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Sifan Hassan
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 1500 m | 7 | 3 | 2017 to 2021 | $96,500 |
| Women's 5000 m | 4 | 1 | 2019 to 2024 | $58,250 |
| Women's 3000 m | 3 | 2 | 2019 to 2022 | $22,000 |
| Women's mile | 2 | 2 | 2019 to 2021 | $20,000 |
| Women's 800 m | 1 | — | 2018 | $0 |
The women's 1500 m has paid Sifan Hassan $96,500 of the $196,750, which is 49% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2017 to 2024, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | Meeting de Paris | $10,000 |
| 2018 | 1 | — | Meeting de Paris | — |
| 2019 | 7 | 4 | Weltklasse Zürich | $132,500 |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 4 | 2 | Weltklasse Zürich | $38,000 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1 | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $12,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | — | London Athletics Meet | $3,500 |
| 2024 | 1 | — | Prefontaine Classic | $750 |
season running total
2019 is the biggest of them, $132,500 from seven starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Sifan Hassan in 2018 and 2020, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $196,750.
Around Sifan Hassan on the money list
Ranks 22 to 62
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | Timothy Cheruiyot | four disciplines | 10 | $260,500 |
| 23 | Shanieka Ricketts | Women's triple jump | 8 | $245,750 |
| 24 | Katie Moon | Women's pole vault | 11 | $245,125 |
| 25 | Tobi Amusan | Women's 100 m hurdles | 7 | $238,250 |
| 26 | Nicola Olyslagers | Women's high jump | 10 | $231,167 |
| 27 | Pedro Pichardo | Men's triple jump | 11 | $223,500 |
| 28 | Chase Jackson | Women's shot put | 12 | $222,500 |
| 29 | Masai Russell | Women's 100 m hurdles | 8 | $219,500 |
| 30 | Akani Simbine | Men's 100 m | 11 | $213,750 |
| 31 | Letsile Tebogo | two disciplines | 10 | $213,250 |
| 32 | Yulimar Rojas | two disciplines | 12 | $212,000 |
| 33 | Andy Díaz | Men's triple jump | 10 | $211,500 |
| 34 | Sandi Morris | Women's pole vault | 9 | $210,500 |
| 35 | Ryan Crouser | Men's shot put | 10 | $210,000 |
| 36 | Malaika Mihambo | Women's long jump | 8 | $207,750 |
| 37 | Marie-Josée Ta Lou | two disciplines | 5 | $202,000 |
| 38 | Haruka Kitaguchi | Women's javelin throw | 11 | $199,500 |
| 39 | Fred Kerley | three disciplines | 8 | $198,250 |
| 40 | Faith Cherotich | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 8 | $198,000 |
| 41 | Nina Kennedy | Women's pole vault | 11 | $197,500 |
| 42 | Sifan Hassan | five disciplines | 8 | $196,750 |
| 43 | Tom Walsh | Men's shot put | 6 | $195,000 |
| 44 | Winfred Yavi | two disciplines | 8 | $193,000 |
| 45 | Audrey Werro | two disciplines | 7 | $191,500 |
| 46 | Salwa Eid Naser | two disciplines | 9 | $190,500 |
| 47 | Christian Coleman | two disciplines | 7 | $190,000 |
| 48 | Beatrice Chepkoech | three disciplines | 9 | $188,500 |
| 49 | Rai Benjamin | four disciplines | 8 | $187,250 |
| 50 | Leyanis Pérez | Women's triple jump | 9 | $183,250 |
| 51 | Freweyni Hailu | five disciplines | 6 | $183,000 |
| 52 | Beatrice Chebet | three disciplines | 11 | $180,250 |
| 53 | Andre De Grasse | two disciplines | 6 | $178,000 |
| 54 | Yaime Pérez | Women's discus throw | 5 | $178,000 |
| 55 | Larissa Iapichino | Women's long jump | 6 | $177,500 |
| 56 | Emmanouil Karalis | Men's pole vault | 3 | $170,875 |
| 57 | Keely Hodgkinson | two disciplines | 9 | $170,500 |
| 58 | Sarah Mitton | Women's shot put | 3 | $170,250 |
| 59 | Danielle Williams | Women's 100 m hurdles | 7 | $169,250 |
| 60 | Kirani James | Men's 400 m | 6 | $166,250 |
| 61 | Mariya Lasitskene | Women's high jump | 9 | $164,000 |
| 62 | Marco Arop | two disciplines | 5 | $162,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Sifan Hassan is 42nd of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $196,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Sifan Hassan most
Weltklasse Zürich 2019 paid $50,000 for 1st in the 1500 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Konstanze Klosterhalfen, Gabriela DeBues-Stafford, Genzebe Dibaba, Winnie Nanyondo, Winny Chebet and Rababe Arafi.
AG Memorial Van Damme 2019 paid $50,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Letesenbet Gidey, Konstanze Klosterhalfen, Hellen Obiri, Margaret Kipkemboi, Agnes Jebet Tirop and Gabriela DeBues-Stafford.
Weltklasse Zürich 2021 paid $12,000 for 2nd in the 1500 m, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Josette Andrews, Marta Pérez, Helen Schlachtenhaufen, Linden Hall, Axumawit Embaye and Winnie Nanyondo.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Sifan Hassan won?
$196,750, which ranks 42nd of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from sixteen paid finishes between 2017 and 2024.
What is Sifan Hassan's biggest Diamond League payday?
$50,000, for finishing 1st in the 1500 m at the 2019 Weltklasse Zürich. 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 Sifan Hassan 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 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.
How many Diamond League meetings has Sifan Hassan won?
Eight of 17, worth $160,000 between them. Three of her appearances came at a final, which paid $112,000.
Has Sifan Hassan 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. She is in the result table on this site either way.
Is this everything Sifan Hassan earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 meetings. The Olympic 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 Sifan Hassan is Nina Kennedy on $197,500, and one below Tom Walsh on $195,000. Sifan Hassan is one of 40 Netherlands athletes athletics has paid, and Netherlands athletics prize money adds them up to $2,032,667 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 1500 m prize money, women's 5000 m prize money, women's 3000 m prize money, women's mile prize money and women's 800 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Sifan Hassan has been paid in five 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 Prefontaine Classic has its own page across every edition of it.