Thierry Ndikumwenayo prize money
Thierry Ndikumwenayo has been paid $23,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1036th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from eight paid finishes in the men's 5000 m and men's 3000 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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bislett Games 2025 | 5000 m | 6th | $2,500 |
| Athletissima 2025 | 5000 m | 12th | - |
| Bislett Games 2024 | 5000 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| Bislett Games 2023 | 5000 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Herculis EBS 2023 | 5000 m | 8th | $500 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2023 | 5000 m | 13th | - |
| Herculis 2022 | 3000 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2022 | 5000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2022 | 3000 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2022 | 5000 m | 8th | $500 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2022 | 5000 m | 11th | - |
| All eleven | two disciplines | - | $23,750 |
The eight paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $23,750 is eight separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.02% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Three of the eleven starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Thierry Ndikumwenayo did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 10,000 metres | 9th | 28:59.07 | - |
Thierry Ndikumwenayo stood in one 2025 World Championships final in Tokyo and finished outside the money. The championships pay eight places, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th, and nothing at all below that. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The World Cross Country Championships
What Thierry Ndikumwenayo ran on the grass, 2024 and 2026
| RACE | PLACE | MARK | EARNED | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior men's race | 9th | 28:36 | - | $10,000 |
| Senior men's race | 8th | 29:16 | - | - |
Thierry Ndikumwenayo has run two races here and was paid nothing in his own name. Only the first six across the line are, $30,000 for the win down to $3,000 for 6th, and there is no appearance money underneath it. The teams he ran on earned Spain $10,000, all of it from a team standing, which is settled on the places of the first four runners a country gets home. It is the federation's money rather than his, and it is not added to the $23,750 at the top of this page. Hescored alongside Fernando Carro and Abdessamad Oukhelfen, and the Diamond League has paid every one of them too. The cross country page holds all 10 races across two championships and the $620,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Thierry Ndikumwenayo
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 m | 9 | - | 2022 to 2025 | $12,500 |
| Men's 3000 m | 2 | 1 | 2022 | $11,250 |
The men's 5000 m has paid Thierry Ndikumwenayo $12,500 of the $23,750, which is 53% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2022 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | 1 | Herculis | $17,750 |
| 2023 | 3 | - | Bislett Games | $1,500 |
| 2024 | 1 | - | Bislett Games | $2,000 |
| 2025 | 2 | - | Bislett Games | $2,500 |
season running total
2022 is the biggest of them, $17,750 from five starts. Every season from 2022 to 2025 paid him something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $23,750.
Around Thierry Ndikumwenayo on the money list
Ranks 1016 to 1056
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1016 | Imogen Ayris | Women's pole vault | - | $24,500 |
| 1017 | Kori Carter | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $24,500 |
| 1018 | Ladislav Prášil | Men's shot put | - | $24,500 |
| 1019 | Libania Grenot | two disciplines | - | $24,500 |
| 1020 | Marquise Goodwin | Men's long jump | 1 | $24,500 |
| 1021 | Nadia Battocletti | three disciplines | 1 | $24,500 |
| 1022 | Paul Dedewo | Men's 400 m | - | $24,500 |
| 1023 | Eusebio Cáceres | Men's long jump | - | $24,250 |
| 1024 | Andreas Kramer | Men's 800 m | - | $24,000 |
| 1025 | Candyce McGrone | two disciplines | 1 | $24,000 |
| 1026 | Kyriakos Ioannou | Men's high jump | 1 | $24,000 |
| 1027 | Louis Tsatoumas | Men's long jump | 1 | $24,000 |
| 1028 | Machel Cedenio | Men's 400 m | 1 | $24,000 |
| 1029 | Maria Andrejczyk | Women's javelin throw | - | $24,000 |
| 1030 | Mohamed Amin Jhinaoui | two disciplines | - | $24,000 |
| 1031 | Nadezhda Alyokhina | Women's triple jump | 1 | $24,000 |
| 1032 | Olivia McTaggart | Women's pole vault | 1 | $24,000 |
| 1033 | Tihomir Ivanov | Men's high jump | - | $23,958 |
| 1034 | Jean-Marc Pontvianne | Men's triple jump | - | $23,750 |
| 1035 | Li Ling | two disciplines | - | $23,750 |
| 1036 | Thierry Ndikumwenayo | two disciplines | 1 | $23,750 |
| 1037 | Anastasiya Savchenko | Women's pole vault | 1 | $23,500 |
| 1038 | Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir | Women's javelin throw | - | $23,500 |
| 1039 | Bralon Taplin | Men's 400 m | - | $23,500 |
| 1040 | Britany Anderson | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $23,500 |
| 1041 | Chanelle Price | Women's 800 m | - | $23,500 |
| 1042 | Duane Solomon | Men's 800 m | 1 | $23,500 |
| 1043 | Erica Jarder | Women's long jump | - | $23,500 |
| 1044 | George Mills | four disciplines | - | $23,500 |
| 1045 | Henrik Ingebrigtsen | four disciplines | - | $23,500 |
| 1046 | Ryan Gregson | two disciplines | - | $23,500 |
| 1047 | Yelena Isinbayeva | Women's pole vault | 2 | $23,500 |
| 1048 | Nadiya Dusanova | Women's high jump | - | $23,333 |
| 1049 | Agate de Sousa | Women's long jump | - | $23,000 |
| 1050 | Alessandro Sibilio | Men's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $23,000 |
| 1051 | Carina Horn | Women's 100 m | - | $23,000 |
| 1052 | Changrui Xue | Men's pole vault | - | $23,000 |
| 1053 | Ernesto Revé | Men's triple jump | - | $23,000 |
| 1054 | Fabrizio Donato | Men's triple jump | 1 | $23,000 |
| 1055 | Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye | two disciplines | 1 | $23,000 |
| 1056 | Isabelle Pedersen | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $23,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Thierry Ndikumwenayo is 1036th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $23,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Thierry Ndikumwenayo most
Herculis 2022 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 3000 m, one of fifteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Berihu Aregawi, Grant Fisher, Nicholas Kimeli, Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu, Jacob Krop and Telahun Haile Bekele.
Meeting de Paris 2022 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 5000 m, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Muktar Edris, Jimmy Gressier, Addisu Yihune, Geordie Beamish, Mike Foppen and Abdessamad Oukhelfen.
Bislett Games 2025 paid $2,500 for 6th in the 5000 m, one of sixteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Graham Blanks, Yomif Kejelcha, Mezgebu Sime, Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu, Jacob Krop and Birhanu Balew.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Thierry Ndikumwenayo won?
$23,750, which ranks 1036th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from eight paid finishes between 2022 and 2025.
What is Thierry Ndikumwenayo's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 3000 m at the 2022 Herculis. 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 Thierry Ndikumwenayo 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 Thierry Ndikumwenayo won?
One of eleven, worth $10,000 between them. He has not been paid at a Diamond League final.
Has Thierry Ndikumwenayo ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Three 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.
Is this everything Thierry Ndikumwenayo earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Cross Country 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 Thierry Ndikumwenayo is Li Ling on $23,750, and one below Anastasiya Savchenko on $23,500. Thierry Ndikumwenayo is one of 72 Spain athletes athletics has paid, and Spain athletics prize money adds them up to $1,462,000 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 5000 m prize money and men's 3000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Thierry Ndikumwenayo has been paid in two 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 Bislett Games 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. Cross country prize money is the Belgrade 2024 and Tallahassee 2026 championships, $620,000 put up across 10 races, half of it a runner's and half of it a federation's, and the race is on the senior men's race page.