Sifan Hassan prize money
Sifan Hassan has been paid $424,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 12th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 48 paid finishes in the women's 1500 m, women's 5000 m and women's 3000 m, sixteen 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
The 48 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $424,250 is 48 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.4% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the 49 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 | 27 | 9 | 2013 to 2021 | $242,000 |
| Women's 5000 m | 6 | 1 | 2018 to 2024 | $84,250 |
| Women's 3000 m | 6 | 3 | 2013 to 2022 | $42,000 |
| Women's mile | 4 | 3 | 2015 to 2021 | $36,000 |
| Women's 800 m | 6 | - | 2015 to 2018 | $20,000 |
The women's 1500 m has paid Sifan Hassan $242,000 of the $424,250, which is 57% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2013 to 2024, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 2 | - | Athletissima | $10,000 |
| 2014 | 7 | 2 | Meeting Areva | $39,500 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2 | British Athletics Grand Prix | $53,000 |
| 2016 | 3 | - | Muller Anniversary Games | $14,000 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3 | AG Memorial Van Damme | $61,000 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2 | Weltklasse Zürich | $60,000 |
| 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 2020, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $424,250.
Around Sifan Hassan on the money list
Ranks 1 to 41
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandra Elkasević | Women's discus throw | 46 | $692,750 |
| 2 | Armand Duplantis | Men's pole vault | 35 | $607,250 |
| 3 | Noah Lyles | two disciplines | 24 | $530,000 |
| 4 | Christian Taylor | three disciplines | 28 | $512,250 |
| 5 | Caterine Ibargüen | two disciplines | 37 | $501,000 |
| 6 | Sam Kendricks | Men's pole vault | 18 | $481,917 |
| 7 | Renaud Lavillenie | Men's pole vault | 33 | $466,833 |
| 8 | Femke Broeders-Bol | three disciplines | 29 | $456,000 |
| 9 | Mariya Lasitskene | Women's high jump | 26 | $440,500 |
| 10 | Shericka Jackson | three disciplines | 19 | $429,250 |
| 11 | Karsten Warholm | three disciplines | 18 | $428,500 |
| 12 | Sifan Hassan | five disciplines | 16 | $424,250 |
| 13 | Faith Kipyegon | six disciplines | 23 | $423,000 |
| 14 | Marileidy Paulino | two disciplines | 25 | $420,500 |
| 15 | Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith | two disciplines | 11 | $417,250 |
| 16 | Timothy Cheruiyot | four disciplines | 17 | $416,500 |
| 17 | Shaunae Miller-Uibo | three disciplines | 21 | $415,000 |
| 18 | Mutaz Barsham | Men's high jump | 23 | $409,833 |
| 19 | Joe Kovacs | Men's shot put | 18 | $406,500 |
| 20 | Dina Asher-Smith | two disciplines | 10 | $401,500 |
| 21 | Katerina Stefanidi | Women's pole vault | 15 | $394,500 |
| 22 | Valarie Sion | Women's discus throw | 20 | $389,000 |
| 23 | Soufiane El Bakkali | four disciplines | 22 | $388,500 |
| 24 | Yaroslava Mahuchikh | Women's high jump | 21 | $382,250 |
| 25 | Alison dos Santos | three disciplines | 22 | $380,500 |
| 26 | Elaine Thompson-Herah | two disciplines | 21 | $380,500 |
| 27 | Ivana Španović | two disciplines | 18 | $373,000 |
| 28 | Tom Walsh | Men's shot put | 13 | $372,000 |
| 29 | Pedro Pichardo | Men's triple jump | 17 | $370,500 |
| 30 | Barbora Špotáková | Women's javelin throw | 19 | $365,500 |
| 31 | Valerie Adams | Women's shot put | 30 | $361,500 |
| 32 | Daniel Ståhl | Men's discus throw | 13 | $355,750 |
| 33 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | four disciplines | 19 | $348,000 |
| 34 | Chase Jackson | Women's shot put | 18 | $347,500 |
| 35 | Blessing Okagbare | three disciplines | 11 | $338,250 |
| 36 | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | two disciplines | 21 | $335,000 |
| 37 | Emmanuel Wanyonyi | two disciplines | 15 | $321,500 |
| 38 | Julien Alfred | two disciplines | 13 | $316,000 |
| 39 | Piotr Małachowski | Men's discus throw | 18 | $312,500 |
| 40 | Kirani James | Men's 400 m | 17 | $310,250 |
| 41 | Ryan Crouser | Men's shot put | 15 | $310,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Sifan Hassan is 12th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $424,250.
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 Tirop and Gabriela DeBues-Stafford.
Weltklasse Zürich 2018 paid $20,000 for 2nd in the 5000 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Senbere Teferi, Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui, Agnes Tirop, Genzebe Dibaba, Letesenbet Gidey and Lilian Kasait Rengeruk.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Sifan Hassan won?
$424,250, which ranks 12th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 48 paid finishes between 2013 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?
Sixteen of 49, worth $240,000 between them. Seven of her appearances came at a final, which paid $167,000.
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. That start 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 224 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 3,683 athletes across the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Sifan Hassan is Karsten Warholm on $428,500, and one below Faith Kipyegon on $423,000. Sifan Hassan is one of 55 Netherlands athletes athletics has paid, and Netherlands athletics prize money adds them up to $2,809,167 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.