Yomif Kejelcha prize money
Yomif Kejelcha has been paid $217,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 87th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 33 paid finishes in the men's 5000 m, men's 3000 m and men's 1500 m, eleven 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 33 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $217,500 is 33 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.2% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them.
The World Championships
What Yomif Kejelcha did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 10,000 metres | 2nd | 28:55.83 | $35,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Yomif Kejelcha $35,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $217,500 from 33 Diamond League starts between 2015 and 2025. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Yomif Kejelcha
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 m | 24 | 8 | 2015 to 2025 | $159,500 |
| Men's 3000 m | 8 | 3 | 2015 to 2024 | $56,000 |
| Men's 1500 m | 1 | - | 2022 | $2,000 |
The men's 5000 m has paid Yomif Kejelcha $159,500 of the $217,500, which is 73% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2015 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4 | 2 | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $28,500 |
| 2016 | 5 | 1 | Meeting de Paris | $24,000 |
| 2017 | 4 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $24,000 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1 | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $24,000 |
| 2019 | 3 | 2 | IAAF Diamond League Shanghai | $24,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | Bislett Games | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 2 | - | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $5,500 |
| 2023 | 4 | 2 | Prefontaine Classic | $38,000 |
| 2024 | 4 | - | Bislett Games | $18,000 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 | Meeting de Paris | $21,500 |
season running total
2023 is the biggest of them, $38,000 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Yomif Kejelcha in 2020, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $217,500.
Around Yomif Kejelcha on the money list
Ranks 67 to 107
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67 | Olga Rypakova | Women's triple jump | 9 | $262,000 |
| 68 | Kristjan Čeh | Men's discus throw | 12 | $261,500 |
| 69 | Akani Simbine | Men's 100 m | 11 | $257,500 |
| 70 | Murielle Ahouré-Demps | two disciplines | 10 | $252,750 |
| 71 | Tobi Amusan | Women's 100 m hurdles | 7 | $252,250 |
| 72 | David Oliver | Men's 110 m hurdles | 14 | $247,000 |
| 73 | Kendra Harrison | Women's 100 m hurdles | 14 | $246,750 |
| 74 | Nicola Olyslagers | Women's high jump | 10 | $244,917 |
| 75 | Malaika Mihambo | Women's long jump | 10 | $244,750 |
| 76 | Javier Culson | Men's 400 m hurdles | 13 | $243,500 |
| 77 | Francine Niyonsaba | three disciplines | 14 | $238,000 |
| 78 | Hagos Gebrhiwet | two disciplines | 10 | $235,000 |
| 79 | Nijel Amos | Men's 800 m | 13 | $233,500 |
| 80 | Andre De Grasse | two disciplines | 11 | $233,000 |
| 81 | Reese Hoffa | Men's shot put | 14 | $226,500 |
| 82 | Fabiana Murer | Women's pole vault | 13 | $223,000 |
| 83 | Paul Kipsiele Koech | two disciplines | 9 | $222,500 |
| 84 | Dawn Harper-Nelson | Women's 100 m hurdles | 15 | $220,500 |
| 85 | Amantle Montsho | Women's 400 m | 12 | $219,500 |
| 86 | Masai Russell | Women's 100 m hurdles | 8 | $219,500 |
| 87 | Yomif Kejelcha | three disciplines | 11 | $217,500 |
| 88 | Letsile Tebogo | two disciplines | 10 | $213,250 |
| 89 | Ayanleh Souleiman | four disciplines | 8 | $212,000 |
| 90 | Hyvin Jepkemoi | two disciplines | 8 | $212,000 |
| 91 | LaShawn Merritt | two disciplines | 16 | $212,000 |
| 92 | Andy Díaz | Men's triple jump | 10 | $211,500 |
| 93 | Thomas Röhler | Men's javelin throw | 9 | $211,250 |
| 94 | Shamier Little | two disciplines | 4 | $211,000 |
| 95 | Brittney Reese | Women's long jump | 12 | $210,500 |
| 96 | Jairus Kipchoge Birech | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 10 | $208,000 |
| 97 | Gudaf Tsegay | five disciplines | 7 | $206,500 |
| 98 | Silas Kiplagat | two disciplines | 11 | $205,000 |
| 99 | Genzebe Dibaba | five disciplines | 12 | $204,500 |
| 100 | Danielle Williams | Women's 100 m hurdles | 7 | $204,250 |
| 101 | Yarisley Silva | Women's pole vault | 7 | $203,333 |
| 102 | Justin Gatlin | two disciplines | 16 | $203,250 |
| 103 | Kimberly Williams | Women's triple jump | 1 | $203,250 |
| 104 | Kyron McMaster | two disciplines | 3 | $202,250 |
| 105 | Christina Schwanitz | Women's shot put | 10 | $202,000 |
| 106 | Tero Pitkämäki | Men's javelin throw | 10 | $202,000 |
| 107 | Haruka Kitaguchi | Women's javelin throw | 11 | $199,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Yomif Kejelcha is 87th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $217,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Yomif Kejelcha most
Prefontaine Classic 2023 paid $12,000 for 2nd in the 3000 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Grant Fisher, Telahun Haile Bekele, Selemon Barega, Berihu Aregawi, Luis Grijalva and Stewart McSweyn.
Meeting de Paris 2025 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of fifteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Birhanu Balew, Graham Blanks, Jimmy Gressier, Samuel Tefera, Soufiane El Bakkali and Nico Young.
Herculis EBS 2025 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Jimmy Gressier, Birhanu Balew, Mohamed Abdilaahi, Etienne Daguinos, Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu and Hagos Gebrhiwet.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Yomif Kejelcha won?
$217,500, which ranks 87th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 33 paid finishes between 2015 and 2025.
What is Yomif Kejelcha's biggest Diamond League payday?
$12,000, for finishing 2nd in the 3000 m at the 2023 Prefontaine Classic. That is a final, which is why it is the biggest: the final pays two to five times what the same place is worth at a series meeting.
How does the Diamond League decide what Yomif Kejelcha 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 Yomif Kejelcha won?
Eleven of 33, worth $110,000 between them. Five of his appearances came at a final, which paid $38,500.
How much did Yomif Kejelcha win at the 2025 World Championships?
$35,000, from one paid final in Tokyo. The championships pay eight places in every event, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th.
Is this everything Yomif Kejelcha earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World 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 Yomif Kejelcha is Masai Russell on $219,500, and one below Letsile Tebogo on $213,250. Yomif Kejelcha 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 men's 5000 m prize money, men's 3000 m prize money and men's 1500 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Yomif Kejelcha has been paid in three 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 Meeting de Paris 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.