Tsigie Gebreselama prize money
Tsigie Gebreselama has been paid $18,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1220th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from four paid finishes in the women's 5000 m and women'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 she finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prefontaine Classic 2024 | 5000 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Athletissima 2024 | 3000 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2024 | 5000 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 | 5000 m | 9th | - |
| Bauhausgalan 2023 | 5000 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Bislett Games 2022 | 5000 m | 10th | - |
| All six | two disciplines | - | $18,000 |
The four paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $18,000 is four 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. Two of the six starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Tsigie Gebreselama did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 10,000 metres | 21st | 32:33.73 | - |
Tsigie Gebreselama 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 Tsigie Gebreselama
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 m | 5 | 1 | 2022 to 2024 | $14,500 |
| Women's 3000 m | 1 | - | 2024 | $3,500 |
The women's 5000 m has paid Tsigie Gebreselama $14,500 of the $18,000, which is 81% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2022 to 2024, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | - | Bislett Games | - |
| 2023 | 1 | - | Bauhausgalan | $1,000 |
| 2024 | 4 | 1 | Prefontaine Classic | $17,000 |
season running total
2024 is the biggest of them, $17,000 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Tsigie Gebreselama in 2022, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $18,000.
Around Tsigie Gebreselama on the money list
Ranks 1200 to 1240
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1200 | Susan Ejore | Women's 1500 m | - | $18,250 |
| 1201 | Timothé Mumenthaler | two disciplines | - | $18,250 |
| 1202 | Worknesh Mesele | three disciplines | - | $18,250 |
| 1203 | Vita Styopina | Women's high jump | - | $18,083 |
| 1204 | Oksana Okuneva | Women's high jump | - | $18,050 |
| 1205 | Brahim Taleb | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $18,000 |
| 1206 | Brigitte Ann Foster-Hylton | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1207 | Cyréna Samba-Mayela | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $18,000 |
| 1208 | Egide Ntakarutimana | two disciplines | - | $18,000 |
| 1209 | Ewa Swoboda | Women's 100 m | - | $18,000 |
| 1210 | Germán Luján Lauro | Men's shot put | - | $18,000 |
| 1211 | Hobbs Kessler | four disciplines | - | $18,000 |
| 1212 | Ibrahim Jeilan | Men's 5000 m | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1213 | Irina Gumenyuk | Women's triple jump | - | $18,000 |
| 1214 | Jaida Ross | Women's shot put | - | $18,000 |
| 1215 | Lyudmila Kolchanova | Women's long jump | - | $18,000 |
| 1216 | McKenzie Long | two disciplines | - | $18,000 |
| 1217 | Raul Spank | Men's high jump | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1218 | Renata Pliś | four disciplines | - | $18,000 |
| 1219 | Roxana Gómez | Women's 400 m | - | $18,000 |
| 1220 | Tsigie Gebreselama | two disciplines | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1221 | Kateryna Tabashnyk | Women's high jump | - | $17,800 |
| 1222 | David Neville | Men's 400 m | - | $17,750 |
| 1223 | Margaret Akidor | two disciplines | 1 | $17,750 |
| 1224 | Shafiqua Maloney | two disciplines | - | $17,750 |
| 1225 | Michaela Hrubá | Women's high jump | - | $17,583 |
| 1226 | Aleksandr Gripich | Men's pole vault | - | $17,500 |
| 1227 | Alena Abramchuk | Women's shot put | - | $17,500 |
| 1228 | Balázs Baji | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $17,500 |
| 1229 | Brianna Glenn | Women's long jump | 1 | $17,500 |
| 1230 | Chandra Sturrup | Women's 100 m | - | $17,500 |
| 1231 | Geordie Beamish | four disciplines | - | $17,500 |
| 1232 | Ilham Tanui Özbilen | two disciplines | - | $17,500 |
| 1233 | Irene Pusterla | Women's long jump | - | $17,500 |
| 1234 | Jackson Mumbwa Kivuva | Men's 800 m | - | $17,500 |
| 1235 | Kahmari Montgomery | Men's 400 m | - | $17,500 |
| 1236 | Karl Bebendorf | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $17,500 |
| 1237 | Melissa Boekelman | Women's shot put | - | $17,500 |
| 1238 | Xavier Carter | Men's 200 m | - | $17,500 |
| 1239 | Zaynab Dosso | Women's 100 m | - | $17,500 |
| 1240 | Ajla Del Ponte | two disciplines | - | $17,250 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Tsigie Gebreselama is 1220th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $18,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Tsigie Gebreselama most
Prefontaine Classic 2024 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of 19 in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Ejgayehu Taye, Freweyni Hailu, Aynadis Mebratu, Birke Haylom, Hirut Meshesha and Sifan Hassan.
Athletissima 2024 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 3000 m, one of twelve in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Elise Cranny, Georgia Griffith, Nathalie Blomqvist, Karissa Schweizer, Hirut Meshesha and Margaret Akidor.
Weltklasse Zürich 2024 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 5000 m, one of twelve in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Karissa Schweizer, Melknat Wudu, Fotyen Tesfay, Nozomi Tanaka, Elise Cranny and Margaret Akidor.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Tsigie Gebreselama won?
$18,000, which ranks 1220th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from four paid finishes between 2022 and 2024.
What is Tsigie Gebreselama's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 5000 m at the 2024 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 Tsigie Gebreselama 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 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 Tsigie Gebreselama won?
One of six, worth $10,000 between them. She has not been paid at a Diamond League final.
Has Tsigie Gebreselama ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Two 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 Tsigie Gebreselama 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 Tsigie Gebreselama is Roxana Gómez on $18,000, and one below Kateryna Tabashnyk on $17,800. Tsigie Gebreselama 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 5000 m prize money and women's 3000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Tsigie Gebreselama 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 Prefontaine Classic 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 10,000 metres page.