Tsige Duguma prize money
Tsige Duguma has been paid $73,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 433rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from ten paid finishes in the women's 800 m and women's 1500 m, four 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2026 | 1500 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Shanghai Diamond League 2026 | 1500 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2026 | 800 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2026 | 800 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| London Athletics Meet 2026 | 800 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2025 | 800 m | 1st | $20,000 |
| Diamond League Shanghai 2025 | 800 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2025 | 800 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Bislett Games 2024 | 800 m | 7th | $750 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2024 | 800 m | 8th | $500 |
| All ten | two disciplines | - | $73,250 |
The ten paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $73,250 is ten separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.06% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The World Indoor Championships
What Tsige Duguma did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 800 metres | 6th | 2:04.76 | $4,000 |
The World Indoor Championships have paid Tsige Duguma $4,000 for one finish in Nanjing 2025, against $73,250 from ten Diamond League starts between 2024 and 2026. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
The Olympic Games
What Tsige Duguma won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Women's 800 metres | Silver | - |
The silver in the women's 800 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 Tsige Duguma
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 800 m | 8 | 3 | 2024 to 2026 | $57,250 |
| Women's 1500 m | 2 | 1 | 2026 | $16,000 |
The women's 800 m has paid Tsige Duguma $57,250 of the $73,250, which is 78% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2024 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | - | Bislett Games | $1,250 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 | Prefontaine Classic | $40,000 |
| 2026 | 5 | 1 | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $32,000 |
season running total
2025 is the biggest of them, $40,000 from three starts. Every season from 2024 to 2026 paid her something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $73,250.
Around Tsige Duguma on the money list
Ranks 413 to 453
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 413 | Oleh Doroshchuk | Men's high jump | 2 | $76,250 |
| 414 | Thobias Montler | Men's long jump | 2 | $76,250 |
| 415 | Liadagmis Povea | Women's triple jump | - | $75,500 |
| 416 | Ryan Wilson | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $75,500 |
| 417 | Stewart McSweyn | four disciplines | 2 | $75,500 |
| 418 | Ackeem Blake | Men's 100 m | 1 | $75,000 |
| 419 | Auriol Dongmo | Women's shot put | 3 | $75,000 |
| 420 | Isiah Kiplangat Koech | two disciplines | 2 | $75,000 |
| 421 | Ivet Lalova-Collio | two disciplines | 2 | $75,000 |
| 422 | Jaysuma Saidy Ndure | two disciplines | - | $75,000 |
| 423 | Pierre-Ambroise Bosse | Men's 800 m | 2 | $75,000 |
| 424 | Bianca Knight | two disciplines | 2 | $74,500 |
| 425 | Omar Craddock | Men's triple jump | 1 | $74,500 |
| 426 | Zoltán Kővágó | Men's discus throw | 1 | $74,500 |
| 427 | Jemma Reekie | four disciplines | 1 | $73,750 |
| 428 | Zakithi Nene | Men's 400 m | 2 | $73,750 |
| 429 | Darlan Romani | Men's shot put | 1 | $73,500 |
| 430 | Majd Eddin Ghazal | Men's high jump | 1 | $73,500 |
| 431 | Nancy Jebet Langat | two disciplines | 5 | $73,500 |
| 432 | Patrícia Mamona | Women's triple jump | - | $73,500 |
| 433 | Tsige Duguma | two disciplines | 4 | $73,250 |
| 434 | Brenda Martinez | two disciplines | 2 | $73,000 |
| 435 | Klaudia Kazimierska | two disciplines | 1 | $73,000 |
| 436 | Yasser Triki | Men's triple jump | 1 | $73,000 |
| 437 | Michael Cherry | Men's 400 m | 2 | $72,750 |
| 438 | Samuel Firewu | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 2 | $72,500 |
| 439 | Lázaro Martínez | Men's triple jump | 2 | $72,000 |
| 440 | Yelena Sokolova | Women's long jump | 4 | $72,000 |
| 441 | Fanny Roos | Women's shot put | - | $71,500 |
| 442 | Jordan Scott | Men's triple jump | 4 | $71,500 |
| 443 | Likina Amebaw | two disciplines | 1 | $71,250 |
| 444 | Marquis Dendy | two disciplines | 2 | $71,250 |
| 445 | Simon Koech | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $71,000 |
| 446 | Halimah Nakaayi | two disciplines | - | $70,500 |
| 447 | Courtney Lindsey | two disciplines | 1 | $69,750 |
| 448 | Kevin Borlée | Men's 400 m | 1 | $69,750 |
| 449 | Mackenzie Little | Women's javelin throw | 2 | $69,750 |
| 450 | Gelete Burka | three disciplines | 1 | $69,500 |
| 451 | Reynold Cheruiyot | four disciplines | 1 | $69,500 |
| 452 | Tina Clayton | Women's 100 m | 2 | $69,500 |
| 453 | Emma Green | Women's high jump | 1 | $69,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Tsige Duguma is 433rd of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $73,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Tsige Duguma most
Prefontaine Classic 2025 paid $20,000 for 1st in the 800 m, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Prudence Sekgodiso, Halimah Nakaayi, Anaïs Bourgoin, Shafiqua Maloney, Raevyn Rogers and Jemma Reekie.
Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2026 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 1500 m, one of fifteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Jessica Hull, Dorcus Ewoi, Klaudia Kazimierska, Emily Mackay, Agathe Guillemot and Sarah Billings.
Diamond League Shanghai 2025 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 800 m, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Sarah Billings, Halimah Nakaayi, Natoya Goule-Toppin, Addison Wiley, Nigist Getachew and Sage Hurta-Klecker.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Tsige Duguma won?
$73,250, which ranks 433rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from ten paid finishes between 2024 and 2026.
What is Tsige Duguma's biggest Diamond League payday?
$20,000, for finishing 1st in the Diamond+ 800 m at the 2025 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 1st and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Tsige Duguma 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 800 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 Tsige Duguma won?
Four of ten, worth $50,000 between them. She has not been paid at a Diamond League final.
How much has Tsige Duguma won at the World Indoor Championships?
$4,000, from one paid final in Nanjing 2025. An indoor title pays $40,000 and the ladder runs six places deep, down to $4,000 for 6th, the same in every event on the programme and the same for a relay team.
Is this everything Tsige Duguma earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Indoor 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 Tsige Duguma is Patrícia Mamona on $73,500, and one below Brenda Martinez on $73,000. Tsige Duguma 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 800 m prize money and women's 1500 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Tsige Duguma 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 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial has its own page across every edition of it. Indoor championships prize money is the Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026 championships, $4,664,000 put up across 53 finals, and the indoor final is on the women's 800 metres page.