Yared Nuguse prize money
Yared Nuguse has been paid $140,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 83rd of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from 20 paid finishes in the men's 1500 m and men's mile, six 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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
The 20 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $140,500 is 20 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.3% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The Ultimate Championship
What Yared Nuguse did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 1500 metres | 5th | 3:30.76 | — |
Yared Nuguse stood in one Ultimate Championship final in Budapest and finished outside the money. World Athletics pays the first three in each event, $150,000, $75,000 and $40,000, and publishes no rate below third, so there is no figure to put against where he finished. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
The World Indoor Championships
What Yared Nuguse did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 3000 metres | 5th | 7:37.08 | $6,000 |
The World Indoor Championships have paid Yared Nuguse $6,000 for one finish in Toruń 2026, against $140,500 from 20 Diamond League starts between 2023 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 Yared Nuguse won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Men's 1500 metres | Bronze | — |
The bronze in the men's 1500 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 Yared Nuguse
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 1500 m | 14 | 6 | 2023 to 2026 | $97,000 |
| Men's mile | 6 | — | 2023 to 2026 | $43,500 |
The men's 1500 m has paid Yared Nuguse $97,000 of the $140,500, which is 69% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2023 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | 2 | Prefontaine Classic | $41,500 |
| 2024 | 4 | 1 | Weltklasse Zürich | $17,500 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | Prefontaine Classic | $27,000 |
| 2026 | 7 | 2 | Bauhausgalan | $54,500 |
season running total
2026 is the biggest of them, $54,500 from seven starts. Every season from 2023 to 2026 paid him something. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $140,500.
Around Yared Nuguse on the money list
Ranks 63 to 103
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 | Jakub Vadlejch | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $161,250 |
| 64 | Anderson Peters | Men's javelin throw | 7 | $161,000 |
| 65 | Jasmine Camacho-Quinn | Women's 100 m hurdles | 12 | $158,500 |
| 66 | Sandra Perković | Women's discus throw | 5 | $158,000 |
| 67 | Jessica Schilder | Women's shot put | 5 | $153,250 |
| 68 | Tajay Gayle | Men's long jump | 4 | $151,750 |
| 69 | Mary Moraa | three disciplines | 9 | $151,500 |
| 70 | Neeraj Chopra | Men's javelin throw | 5 | $150,500 |
| 71 | Cordell Tinch | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $149,500 |
| 72 | Gianmarco Tamberi | Men's high jump | 5 | $149,250 |
| 73 | Jamal Britt | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $148,500 |
| 74 | Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | two disciplines | 8 | $147,500 |
| 75 | Shamier Little | two disciplines | 2 | $147,000 |
| 76 | Oblique Seville | Men's 100 m | 5 | $146,000 |
| 77 | Collen Kebinatshipi | Men's 400 m | 6 | $145,500 |
| 78 | Mykolas Alekna | Men's discus throw | 7 | $145,500 |
| 79 | Simon Ehammer | Men's long jump | 3 | $145,500 |
| 80 | Rushell Clayton | Women's 400 m hurdles | 5 | $145,250 |
| 81 | Gudaf Tsegay | five disciplines | 6 | $143,000 |
| 82 | Katerina Stefanidi | Women's pole vault | 4 | $142,500 |
| 83 | Yared Nuguse | two disciplines | 6 | $140,500 |
| 84 | Matthew Denny | Men's discus throw | 3 | $139,000 |
| 85 | Trayvon Bromell | Men's 100 m | 6 | $139,000 |
| 86 | Julian Weber | Men's javelin throw | 4 | $138,750 |
| 87 | Elaine Thompson-Herah | two disciplines | 9 | $136,500 |
| 88 | Grant Holloway | Men's 110 m hurdles | 8 | $136,000 |
| 89 | Hugues Fabrice Zango | Men's triple jump | 3 | $135,250 |
| 90 | Leonardo Fabbri | Men's shot put | 5 | $135,000 |
| 91 | Hamish Kerr | Men's high jump | 7 | $134,750 |
| 92 | Getnet Wale | three disciplines | 2 | $132,750 |
| 93 | Iryna Herashchenko | Women's high jump | 2 | $131,375 |
| 94 | Eleanor Patterson | Women's high jump | 2 | $130,750 |
| 95 | Djamel Sedjati | two disciplines | 5 | $130,500 |
| 96 | Shaunae Miller-Uibo | two disciplines | 6 | $130,500 |
| 97 | Georgia Hunter Bell | three disciplines | 4 | $130,250 |
| 98 | Daryll Neita | two disciplines | 3 | $128,000 |
| 99 | Ivana Španović | two disciplines | 5 | $127,000 |
| 100 | Kendra Harrison | Women's 100 m hurdles | 5 | $126,750 |
| 101 | Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk | two disciplines | 2 | $126,750 |
| 102 | Aaron Brown | two disciplines | 2 | $126,000 |
| 103 | Laura Muir | five disciplines | 7 | $125,750 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Yared Nuguse is 83rd of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $140,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Yared Nuguse most
Bauhausgalan 2026 paid $20,000 for 1st in the 1500 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Cameron Myers, Timothy Cheruiyot, Vincent Ciattei, Narve Gilje Nordås, Hobbs Kessler and Ruben Verheyden.
Prefontaine Classic 2023 paid $12,000 for 2nd in the mile, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: George Mills, Mario García, Reynold Cheruiyot, Cole Hocker, Narve Gilje Nordås and Azeddine Habz.
Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2026 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 1500 m, one of fifteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Isaac Nader, Azeddine Habz, Vincent Ciattei, Tshepo Tshite, Andrew Coscoran and Reynold Cheruiyot.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Yared Nuguse won?
$140,500, which ranks 83rd of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from 20 paid finishes between 2023 and 2026.
What is Yared Nuguse's biggest Diamond League payday?
$20,000, for finishing 1st in the Diamond+ 1500 m at the 2026 Bauhausgalan. 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 Yared Nuguse 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 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 Yared Nuguse won?
Six of 20, worth $70,000 between them. Four of his appearances came at a final, which paid $19,500.
How much has Yared Nuguse won at the World Indoor Championships?
$6,000, from one paid final in Toruń 2026. 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 Yared Nuguse earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 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 him, priced off the card it published.
Where to next
The rest of the Diamond League money
Diamond League prize money ranks all 2,112 athletes across the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Yared Nuguse is Katerina Stefanidi on $142,500, and one below Matthew Denny on $139,000. Yared Nuguse is one of 352 United States athletes athletics has paid, and United States athletics prize money adds them up to $16,292,792 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 1500 m prize money and men's mile prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Yared Nuguse 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 Bauhausgalan has its own page across every edition of it. Ultimate Championship prize money is the 2026 championship in Budapest, $10,000,000 over three days, and the full final is on the men's 1500 metres page. 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 men's 3000 metres page.