Tigist Ketema prize money
Tigist Ketema has been paid $750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 3584th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from one paid finish in the women's 1500 m and women's 5000 m, and it was 7th.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Van Damme 2023 | 5000 m | 13th | - |
| Prefontaine Classic 2022 | 1500 m | 14th | - |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2022 | 1500 m | 14th | - |
| Prefontaine Classic 2021 | 1500 m | 7th | $750 |
| All four | two disciplines | - | $750 |
The one paid figure add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $750 is one separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.00% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Three of the four starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Tigist Ketema did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's marathon | - | DNF | - |
Tigist Ketema 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.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Tigist Ketema
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 1500 m | 3 | - | 2021 to 2022 | $750 |
| Women's 5000 m | 1 | - | 2023 | $0 |
The women's 1500 m has paid Tigist Ketema $750 of the $750, which is 100% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2021 to 2023, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $750 |
| 2022 | 2 | - | Prefontaine Classic | - |
| 2023 | 1 | - | Memorial Van Damme | - |
season running total
2021 is the biggest of them, $750 from one start. No Diamond League meeting paid Tigist Ketema in 2022 and 2023, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $750.
Around Tigist Ketema on the money list
Ranks 3564 to 3604
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3564 | Luke McCann | Men's 1000 m | - | $750 |
| 3565 | M. P. Jabir | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $750 |
| 3566 | Mariano García | Men's 800 m | - | $750 |
| 3567 | Melwin Lycke Holm | Men's high jump | - | $750 |
| 3568 | N'Ketia Seedo | Women's 100 m | - | $750 |
| 3569 | Netsanet Desta | Women's 1500 m | - | $750 |
| 3570 | Nikoleta Jíchová | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $750 |
| 3571 | Oleg Zernikel | Men's pole vault | - | $750 |
| 3572 | Oscar Chelimo | Men's 5000 m | - | $750 |
| 3573 | Parinya Chuaimaroeng | Women's triple jump | - | $750 |
| 3574 | Phil Healy | Women's 400 m | - | $750 |
| 3575 | Piotr Tarkowski | Men's long jump | - | $750 |
| 3576 | Rachel Baxter | Women's pole vault | - | $750 |
| 3577 | Rebecca Mehra | Women's mile | - | $750 |
| 3578 | Reynold Banigo | Men's long jump | - | $750 |
| 3579 | Saad Hinti | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $750 |
| 3580 | Sara Lennman | Women's shot put | - | $750 |
| 3581 | Sarah Lahti | Women's 5000 m | - | $750 |
| 3582 | Subenrat Insaeng | Women's discus throw | - | $750 |
| 3583 | Tadese Worku | Men's 3000 m | - | $750 |
| 3584 | Tigist Ketema | two disciplines | - | $750 |
| 3585 | Vladimir Aceti | Men's 400 m | - | $750 |
| 3586 | Yanis David | Women's long jump | - | $750 |
| 3587 | Zhu Shenglong | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $750 |
| 3588 | Abdessamad Oukhelfen | Men's 5000 m | - | $500 |
| 3589 | Alice Mangione | Women's 400 m | - | $500 |
| 3590 | Alina Kenzel | Women's shot put | - | $500 |
| 3591 | Amy Cashin | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $500 |
| 3592 | Andrea Seccafien | Women's 5000 m | - | $500 |
| 3593 | Andrzej Kuch | Men's long jump | - | $500 |
| 3594 | Ashraf Osman | Men's 400 m | - | $500 |
| 3595 | Aurore Fleury | Women's 1500 m | - | $500 |
| 3596 | Bérénice Petit | Women's pole vault | - | $500 |
| 3597 | Britt Weerman | Women's high jump | - | $500 |
| 3598 | Caisa-Marie Lindfors | Women's discus throw | - | $500 |
| 3599 | Camille Séri | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $500 |
| 3600 | Carla Gallardo | Women's 5000 m | - | $500 |
| 3601 | Chloé Galet | Women's 100 m | - | $500 |
| 3602 | Claudio Michel Stecchi | Men's pole vault | - | $500 |
| 3603 | Daniela Schlatter | Women's long jump | - | $500 |
| 3604 | David McNeill | two disciplines | - | $500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Tigist Ketema is 3584th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Tigist Ketema most
Prefontaine Classic 2021 paid $750 for 7th in the 1500 m, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Helen Schlachtenhaufen, Edinah Jebitok, Gaia Sabbatini, Jessica Hull, Laura Muir and Winny Chebet.
Memorial Van Damme 2023 paid $0 for 13th in the 5000 m, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Lilian Kasait Rengeruk, Medina Eisa, Nozomi Tanaka, Winnie Jemutai, Ayal Dagnachew and Mekedes Alemeshete.
Prefontaine Classic 2022 paid $0 for 14th in the 1500 m, one of fifteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Nozomi Tanaka, Faith Kipyegon, Gudaf Tsegay, Gabriela DeBues-Stafford, Sinclaire Johnson and Jessica Hull.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Tigist Ketema won?
$750, which ranks 3584th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from one paid finish between 2021 and 2023.
What is Tigist Ketema's biggest Diamond League payday?
$750, for finishing 7th in the 1500 m at the 2021 Prefontaine Classic. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 7th and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Tigist Ketema 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 place 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.
Has Tigist Ketema 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 Tigist Ketema earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. It holds no championship prize money, 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 Tigist Ketema is Tadese Worku on $750, and one below Vladimir Aceti on $750. Tigist Ketema 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 1500 m prize money and women's 5000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Tigist Ketema 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 Memorial Van Damme 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 marathon page.