Cornelius Kemboi prize money
Cornelius Kemboi has been paid $26,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 517th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from twelve paid finishes in the men's 5000 m and men's 3000 m, the best of them 3rd.
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
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2026 | 5000 m | 3rd | $7,000 |
| Shanghai Diamond League 2026 | 3000 m | 5th | $2,500 |
| Herculis EBS 2026 | 5000 m | 5th | $2,500 |
| Athletissima 2026 | 5000 m | 5th | $2,500 |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2026 | 5000 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2026 | 5000 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| Bislett Games 2026 | 5000 m | 10th | — |
| Doha Diamond League 2025 | 5000 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Diamond League Shanghai 2025 | 5000 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2025 | 5000 m | 14th | — |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2024 | 5000 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| London Athletics Meet 2024 | 3000 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 | 5000 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| Bislett Games 2023 | 5000 m | 13th | — |
| Herculis EBS 2023 | 5000 m | 11th | — |
| Bauhausgalan 2022 | 3000 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Herculis 2022 | 3000 m | 13th | — |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2022 | 5000 m | 10th | — |
| All 18 | two disciplines | — | $26,000 |
The twelve paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $26,000 is twelve separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.05% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. Six of the 18 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The Ultimate Championship
What Cornelius Kemboi did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 metres | 11th | 13:07.68 | — |
Cornelius Kemboi 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 Cornelius Kemboi did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 3000 metres | 8th | 7:49.00 | — |
Cornelius Kemboi stood in one World Indoor Championships final and finished outside the money. The championships pay six places, $40,000 for a title down to $4,000 for 6th, and nothing at all below that. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Cornelius Kemboi
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 m | 14 | — | 2022 to 2026 | $19,000 |
| Men's 3000 m | 4 | — | 2022 to 2026 | $7,000 |
The men's 5000 m has paid Cornelius Kemboi $19,000 of the $26,000, which is 73% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2022 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | — | Bauhausgalan | $3,500 |
| 2023 | 2 | — | Bislett Games | — |
| 2024 | 3 | — | Xiamen Diamond League | $3,000 |
| 2025 | 3 | — | Doha Diamond League | $3,000 |
| 2026 | 7 | — | AG Memorial Van Damme | $16,500 |
season running total
2026 is the biggest of them, $16,500 from seven starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Cornelius Kemboi in 2023, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $26,000.
Around Cornelius Kemboi on the money list
Ranks 497 to 537
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 497 | Peter Bol | Men's 800 m | — | $27,500 |
| 498 | Ronald Kwemoi | four disciplines | 1 | $27,500 |
| 499 | Carey McLeod | Men's long jump | 1 | $27,250 |
| 500 | Justin Gatlin | two disciplines | 1 | $27,250 |
| 501 | Alyssa Jones | Women's long jump | 1 | $27,000 |
| 502 | Carl Bengtström | three disciplines | — | $26,750 |
| 503 | Kendall Ellis | Women's 400 m | 1 | $26,750 |
| 504 | Twanisha Terry | two disciplines | — | $26,750 |
| 505 | Just Kwaou-Mathey | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $26,500 |
| 506 | Liliana Cá | Women's discus throw | — | $26,500 |
| 507 | Lukas Weisshaidinger | Men's discus throw | — | $26,500 |
| 508 | Mohamed Abdilaahi | two disciplines | 1 | $26,500 |
| 509 | Ackelia Smith | two disciplines | — | $26,250 |
| 510 | Alexis Holmes | Women's 400 m | — | $26,250 |
| 511 | Reece Prescod | Men's 100 m | — | $26,250 |
| 512 | Roger Steen | Men's shot put | — | $26,250 |
| 513 | Thomas Carmoy | Men's high jump | — | $26,125 |
| 514 | Aaliyah Butler | Women's 400 m | — | $26,000 |
| 515 | Christina Clemons | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $26,000 |
| 516 | Christina Schwanitz | Women's shot put | 1 | $26,000 |
| 517 | Cornelius Kemboi | two disciplines | — | $26,000 |
| 518 | Ese Brume | Women's long jump | — | $26,000 |
| 519 | Megan Simmonds | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $26,000 |
| 520 | Sage Hurta | Women's 800 m | — | $26,000 |
| 521 | Lurdes Gloria Manuel | Women's 400 m | — | $25,750 |
| 522 | Marcin Krukowski | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $25,750 |
| 523 | Norbert Kobielski | Men's high jump | — | $25,750 |
| 524 | Thibaut Collet | Men's pole vault | — | $25,542 |
| 525 | Lilian Odira | Women's 800 m | 1 | $25,500 |
| 526 | Sigrid Borge | Women's javelin throw | — | $25,500 |
| 527 | Asier Martínez | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $25,000 |
| 528 | Elliot Giles | three disciplines | — | $25,000 |
| 529 | Keturah Orji | Women's triple jump | — | $25,000 |
| 530 | Maykel Massó | Men's long jump | 1 | $25,000 |
| 531 | Yemisi Mabry | Women's shot put | — | $25,000 |
| 532 | Chukwuebuka Enekwechi | Men's shot put | — | $24,750 |
| 533 | Murielle Ahouré-Demps | two disciplines | 1 | $24,750 |
| 534 | Ethan Strand | two disciplines | 1 | $24,500 |
| 535 | Imogen Ayris | Women's pole vault | — | $24,500 |
| 536 | Nadia Battocletti | three disciplines | 1 | $24,500 |
| 537 | Andreas Kramer | Men's 800 m | — | $24,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Cornelius Kemboi is 517th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $26,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Cornelius Kemboi most
AG Memorial Van Damme 2026 paid $7,000 for 3rd in the 5000 m, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Biniam Mehary, Graham Blanks, Nico Young, Jacob Krop, Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu and Grant Fisher.
Bauhausgalan 2022 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 3000 m, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Stewart McSweyn, Thierry Ndikumwenayo, Luis Grijalva, Mike Foppen, Narve Gilje Nordås and Jack Rayner.
Shanghai Diamond League 2026 paid $2,500 for 5th in the 3000 m, one of 19 in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Mathew Kipsang, Eduardo Herrera, Jacob Krop, Kuma Girma, Ishmael Kipkurui and Birhanu Balew.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Cornelius Kemboi won?
$26,000, which ranks 517th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from twelve paid finishes between 2022 and 2026.
What is Cornelius Kemboi's biggest Diamond League payday?
$7,000, for finishing 3rd in the 5000 m at the 2026 AG Memorial Van Damme. 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 Cornelius Kemboi 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 place 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.
Has Cornelius Kemboi ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Six 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. He are in the result tables on this site either way.
Is this everything Cornelius Kemboi earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 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 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 Cornelius Kemboi is Christina Schwanitz on $26,000, and one below Ese Brume on $26,000. Cornelius Kemboi is one of 100 Kenya athletes athletics has paid, and Kenya athletics prize money adds them up to $4,636,250 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 5000 m prize money and men's 3000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Cornelius Kemboi 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 AG Memorial Van Damme 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 5000 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.