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WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS · TORUŃ 2026 · TRACK

Women's 1500 metres indoor prize money

Georgia Hunter Bell won the women's 1500 metres at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in 3:58.53 and took $40,000. Second was worth $20,000 and third $10,000, and the money ran six deep, so the final paid $88,000 in all.

Nine athletes contested the final in Toruń, from eight countries. Every event indoors carries the same $88,000, relays included, and the championships put up $2,376,000 across 27 of them in Toruń. The two finals below are the Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026 championships, and the ladder under them has not moved between the two.

THE WINNER TOOK $40,000
THE EVENT CARRIES $88,000
IN THE FINAL 9
COUNTRIES 8
PAID ACROSS TWO FINALS $156,000

The 2026 final

Toruń, 20 to 22 March 2026

$88,000 paid
The women's 1500 metres final at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships, with what each place paid.
POS ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK PRIZE
1 Georgia Hunter Bell Great Britain GBR 3:58.53 $40,000
2 Jessica Hull Australia AUS 3:59.45 $20,000
3 Nikki Hiltz United States USA 3:59.68 $10,000
4 Agathe Guillemot France FRA 3:59.71 $8,000
5 Birke Haylom Ethiopia ETH 4:01.34 $6,000
6 Klaudia Kazimierska Poland POL 4:02.80 $4,000
7 Gracie Morris United States USA 4:03.75 —
8 Susan Lokayo Ejore-Sanders Kenya KEN 4:04.05 —
9 Ludovica Cavalli Italy ITA 4:10.10 —
9 finalists 8 countries — $88,000

Everyone from 7th down carries a dash because the ladder stops at 6th: three of the nine athletes here went home with nothing from the prize fund. The six paid places came to $88,000.

The 2025 final

Nanjing, 21 to 23 March 2025

$68,000 paid
The women's 1500 metres final at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships, with what each place paid.
POS ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK PRIZE
1 Gudaf Tsegay Ethiopia ETH 3:54.86 $40,000
3 Georgia Bell Great Britain GBR 3:59.84 $10,000
4 Georgia Griffith Australia AUS 4:00.80 $8,000
5 Susan Ejore Kenya KEN 4:03.89 $6,000
6 Sinclaire Johnson United States USA 4:04.07 $4,000
7 Heather MacLean United States USA 4:05.45 —
8 Salomé Afonso Portugal POR 4:07.67 —
9 Esther Guerrero Spain ESP 4:07.76 —
— Diribe Welteji Ethiopia ETH 3:59.30 —
9 finalists 7 countries — $68,000

Everyone from 7th down carries a dash because the ladder stops at 6th: three of the nine athletes here went home with nothing from the prize fund. The five paid places came to $68,000, short of the $88,000 the event carries because nobody was 2nd.

What each place is worth

The ladder, and who has taken each rung of it

$88,000 an event
The women's 1500 metres prize ladder at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
PLACE PAYS TORUŃ 2026NANJING 2025
1st $40,000 Georgia Hunter Bell Gudaf Tsegay
2nd $20,000 Jessica Hull nobody finished 2nd
3rd $10,000 Nikki Hiltz Georgia Bell
4th $8,000 Agathe Guillemot Georgia Griffith
5th $6,000 Birke Haylom Susan Ejore
6th $4,000 Klaudia Kazimierska Sinclaire Johnson
The event $88,000 $88,000 paid $68,000 paid
Georgia Hunter Bell $40k Jessica Hull $20k Nikki Hiltz $10k Agathe Guillemot $8,000 Birke Haylom $6,000 Klaudia Kazimierska $4,000

The winner takes 45% of what the event pays out and the other five places share the rest. That shape is the same in every event on the indoor programme, relays included, so the chart is the championship's ladder rather than anything particular to the women's 1500 metres.

What this field earns the rest of the year

The same athletes on the Diamond League money list

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What the athletes paid in this event have earned across the Diamond League.
ATHLETE INDOORS TOKYO DL STARTS DL WINS DIAMOND LEAGUE
Georgia Bell Great Britain $50,000 $35,000 21 4 $130,250
Gudaf Tsegay Ethiopia $40,000 $33,000 22 6 $143,000
Jessica Hull Australia $40,000 $27,000 33 1 $121,750
Birke Haylom Ethiopia $12,000 — 23 3 $87,000
Nikki Hiltz United States $10,000 $11,000 10 2 $46,750
Agathe Guillemot France $8,000 — 13 0 $22,500
Georgia Griffith Australia $8,000 — 20 1 $33,000
Susan Ejore Kenya $6,000 — 10 0 $18,250
Klaudia Kazimierska Poland $4,000 $6,000 6 1 $73,000
Sinclaire Johnson United States $4,000 — 12 0 $14,500

Three days in March against careers of Diamond League meetings. The series runs fifteen times a summer and pays six places at a fraction of these rates, which is why an indoor title is one of the larger single cheques in this field's year. The Tokyo column is the outdoor World Championships, where the same ladder runs eight places deep and a title pays $70,000.

Frequently asked questions

How much does the women's 1500 metres pay at the World Indoor Championships?

The event carries $88,000, split six ways: $40,000 to the winner, $20,000 for second and $10,000 for third, down to $4,000 for 6th. In Toruń that came to $88,000.

Who won the women's 1500 metres at the 2026 World Indoor Championships?

Georgia Hunter Bell, in 3:58.53, for $40,000. Nine athletes contested the final in Toruń, from eight countries.

Does the women's 1500 metres pay the same as every other indoor event?

Yes. Every event on the programme carries the same $88,000, and so does every relay, which makes the indoor championships the one meeting in athletics where a team of four and a single athlete are paid the same figure. Across 53 finals that comes to $4,664,000.

How many places does the women's 1500 metres pay indoors?

Six. The ladder runs $40,000, $20,000, $10,000, $8,000, $6,000, $4,000, and 7th pays nothing. Three of the nine athletes in the 2026 final went home with nothing from the prize fund.

Is there a bonus for a world record in the women's 1500 metres?

No. The indoor card is the ladder and nothing else, so a world record is worth the place it won and not a dollar more. Outdoors a world record adds $100,000 on top of the place money.

Did anyone in this final win indoor money elsewhere?

Georgia Bell has taken $50,000 from two paid finishes, Jessica Hull has taken $40,000 from three paid finishes, Birke Haylom has taken $12,000 from two paid finishes.

Where to next

The rest of the championships

Indoor Championships prize money holds all 53 finals, the 233 athletes who were paid and the $4,664,000 that was put up. World Championships prize money is the outdoor version, where a title pays $70,000 and the ladder runs eight deep, and Diamond League prize money is the series most of this field races all summer. The senior women's race at the World Cross Country Championships is where this distance goes in the winter. It has paid $280,000 across two championships, $30,000 to win, and a second ladder the same size again to the federations behind the first six countries in the team standing.

Every other event on the indoor programme