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DIAMOND LEAGUE · WOMEN · 2 RUNNINGS

Women's 2 miles prize money

The Diamond League has paid $60,000 in the women's 2 miles, to sixteen athletes across two runnings of it, from 2014 to 2026. Two athletes share the biggest total in the event, $10,000 each.

The series pays by finishing place and by nothing else, so a win here is worth what a win in any other discipline is worth: $10,000 at a 2026 series meeting, eight places paid, and nothing for ninth. It has never been on the programme for the series final, so the final ladder has never applied to it.

PAID IN IT $60,000
A WIN IN 2026 $10,000
RUNNINGS 2
SEASONS 2
ATHLETES PAID 16

Who the women's 2 miles has paid the most

Every running of it on this site, added up

16 paid
The athletes the Diamond League women's 2 miles has paid the most across its 2 runnings.
# ATHLETE PAID WINS BEST DAY EARNED
1 Aleshign Baweke ETH 1 1 1st 2026 · Prefontaine Classic $10,000
2 Mercy Cherono KEN 1 1 1st 2014 · British Athletics Grand Prix $10,000
3 Hirut Meshesha ETH 1 0 2nd 2026 · Prefontaine Classic $6,000
4 Viola Jelagat Kibiwot KEN 1 0 2nd 2014 · British Athletics Grand Prix $6,000
5 Irene Jelagat KEN 1 0 3rd 2014 · British Athletics Grand Prix $4,000
6 Shelby Houlihan USA 1 0 3rd 2026 · Prefontaine Classic $4,000
7 Genzebe Dibaba ETH 1 0 4th 2014 · British Athletics Grand Prix $3,000
8 Marta Alemayo ETH 1 0 4th 2026 · Prefontaine Classic $3,000
9 Betsy Saina KEN 1 0 5th 2014 · British Athletics Grand Prix $2,500
10 Margot Appleton USA 1 0 5th 2026 · Prefontaine Classic $2,500
11 Alemitu Haroye ETH 1 0 6th 2014 · British Athletics Grand Prix $2,000
12 Karissa Schweizer USA 1 0 6th 2026 · Prefontaine Classic $2,000
13 Susan Krumins NED 1 0 7th 2014 · British Athletics Grand Prix $1,500
14 Yenawa Nbret ETH 1 0 7th 2026 · Prefontaine Classic $1,500
15 Asayech Ayichew ETH 1 0 8th 2026 · Prefontaine Classic $1,000
16 Renata Pliś POL 1 0 8th 2014 · British Athletics Grand Prix $1,000
Aleshign Baweke $10k Mercy Cherono $10k Hirut Meshesha $6,000 Viola Jelagat Kibiwot $6,000 Irene Jelagat $4,000 Shelby Houlihan $4,000 Genzebe Dibaba $3,000 Marta Alemayo $3,000 Betsy Saina $2,500 Margot Appleton $2,500 Alemitu Haroye $2,000 Karissa Schweizer $2,000 Susan Krumins $1,500 Yenawa Nbret $1,500 Asayech Ayichew $1,000

Two athletes are level at the top of the money list, $10,000 apiece, because the series pays by finishing place and every one of these meetings paid the same ladder. Nobody on the list has been paid in it twice.

Every Diamond League women's 2 miles

Who won it, what the win paid and what the field took

$60,000
Every running of the Diamond League women's 2 miles on this site, with its winner and what it paid.
SEASON MEETING WINNER THE WIN EVENT PAID
2026 Prefontaine Classic 3 to 4 July Aleshign Baweke ETH $10,000 $30,000
2014 British Athletics Grand Prix 24 August Mercy Cherono KEN $10,000 $30,000
2 2 runnings 2 winners $20,000 $60,000

What the women's 2 miles paid each season

season running total

The line is the running total. A season's figure is the rate multiplied by how many meetings put the discipline on, so the columns move with the programme rather than with who turned up: 2014 ran it once and 2014 once. Nobody has ever shared the win in it, so every figure in the win column is one athlete's cheque.

Where the women's 2 miles is run

The meetings that have put it on, and what each has paid for it

2 meetings
Every Diamond League meeting that has run the women's 2 miles, with how often.
MEETING RUNNINGS PAID FOR IT
British Athletics Grand Prix 1 $30,000
Prefontaine Classic 1 $30,000
2 meetings 2 $60,000

Every meeting pays the same ladder, so this column ranks how often each one put the discipline on rather than how generous it is. Each meeting links to everything it has paid across every edition of it.

What each place pays in the women's 2 miles

The two ladders this discipline has been paid under

eight places
What the Diamond League women's 2 miles has paid for each finishing place, on every rate card it has run under.
PLACE SERIES 2010-20 SERIES 2025-26
1st $10,000$10,000
2nd $6,000$6,000
3rd $4,000$4,000
4th $3,000$3,000
5th $2,500$2,500
6th $2,000$2,000
7th $1,500$1,500
8th $1,000$1,000
All eight $30,000$30,000

One column per ladder, and none of them is specific to this discipline: the women's 2 miles is paid on the same card as the 100 m and the shot put at the same meeting. There is no appearance money in any of it, nothing for a record, and nothing at all for ninth place. It has never been picked as a Diamond+ discipline, so it has always paid the standard ladder.

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money does the Diamond League pay in the women's 2 miles?

$60,000 across two runnings of it, to sixteen athletes from five countries. That is 0.1% of everything the series has paid, and the 39th biggest of the 41 disciplines on this site.

What does a win in the women's 2 miles pay?

$10,000. It is the same figure in every discipline on a programme, so a win here pays exactly what a win in the 100 m pays.

Who has earned the most in the women's 2 miles?

Two athletes are level at the top on $10,000 each. None of the sixteen athletes the discipline has paid was paid in it twice.

Who has won the most Diamond League women's 2 miles titles?

Two different athletes have won a Diamond League women's 2 miles across the two runnings on this site, and nobody has won it more than once.

How often does the Diamond League run the women's 2 miles?

Twice across two seasons, from 2014 to 2026, on the programmes of two different meetings. The series rotates its programme, so no discipline is on every card.

How far down the field does the women's 2 miles pay?

Eight places, and ninth pays nothing however good the mark was. sixteen payments have gone to sixteen athletes in this discipline, and three other finishes in the same result tables were worth nothing at all.

Where to next

The rest of the Diamond League money

Diamond League prize money holds all sixteen seasons on this site, 224 meetings and $113,397,000. The 2026 season is at Diamond League 2026. The other half of the event is at Men's 2 miles, which has paid $25,000.

Every other Diamond League discipline

Every Diamond League meeting

Every Diamond League season