Emma Coburn prize money
Emma Coburn has been paid $31,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 443rd of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from twelve paid finishes in the women's 3000 m steeplechase, the best of them 2nd.
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 she finished, and what the card paid for it
The twelve paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $31,750 is twelve separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.06% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. Four of the sixteen starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Season by season
2017 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2 | — | Doha Diamond League | $5,000 |
| 2018 | 1 | — | Bislett Games | $6,000 |
| 2019 | 3 | — | Prefontaine Classic | $13,000 |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 2 | — | Herculis EBS | $3,250 |
| 2022 | 4 | — | Herculis | $4,500 |
| 2023 | 2 | — | Doha Diamond League | — |
| 2024 | — | — | — | — |
| 2025 | — | — | — | — |
| 2026 | 2 | — | Prefontaine Classic | — |
season running total
2019 is the biggest of them, $13,000 from three starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Emma Coburn in 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $31,750.
Around Emma Coburn on the money list
Ranks 423 to 463
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 423 | Xie Zhenye | two disciplines | — | $33,750 |
| 424 | Gesa Felicitas Krause | two disciplines | — | $33,500 |
| 425 | Gift Leotlela | Men's 100 m | 1 | $33,500 |
| 426 | Julius Yego | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $33,500 |
| 427 | Mohamed Attaoui | two disciplines | 1 | $33,500 |
| 428 | Georgia Griffith | three disciplines | 1 | $33,000 |
| 429 | Andreas Almgren | three disciplines | 1 | $32,750 |
| 430 | Makanakaishe Charamba | Men's 200 m | — | $32,500 |
| 431 | Mark English | Men's 800 m | 1 | $32,500 |
| 432 | Wilma Murto | Women's pole vault | 1 | $32,500 |
| 433 | Anthonique Strachan | two disciplines | — | $32,250 |
| 434 | Bohdan Bondarenko | Men's high jump | 2 | $32,000 |
| 435 | Ezekiel Nathaniel | two disciplines | — | $32,000 |
| 436 | Ivana Vuleta | Women's long jump | 2 | $32,000 |
| 437 | Kanyinsola Ajayi | Men's 100 m | 1 | $32,000 |
| 438 | Rababe Arafi | three disciplines | 1 | $32,000 |
| 439 | Shakima Wimbley | Women's 400 m | — | $32,000 |
| 440 | Thomas Barr | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $32,000 |
| 441 | Adrian Piperi | Men's shot put | — | $31,750 |
| 442 | Django Lovett | Men's high jump | 1 | $31,750 |
| 443 | Emma Coburn | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $31,750 |
| 444 | Sharika Nelvis | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $31,500 |
| 445 | Vashti Cunningham | Women's high jump | — | $31,250 |
| 446 | Álex Quiñónez | Men's 200 m | — | $31,000 |
| 447 | Biniam Mehary | two disciplines | — | $31,000 |
| 448 | Marcin Lewandowski | three disciplines | 1 | $31,000 |
| 449 | Filip Ingebrigtsen | four disciplines | — | $30,750 |
| 450 | Tonea Marshall | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $30,750 |
| 451 | Anaïs Bourgoin | two disciplines | — | $30,500 |
| 452 | Graham Blanks | two disciplines | — | $30,500 |
| 453 | Samuel Tefera | four disciplines | — | $30,500 |
| 454 | Tia Jones | Women's 100 m hurdles | — | $30,500 |
| 455 | Mirela Demireva | Women's high jump | — | $30,458 |
| 456 | Curtis Thompson | Men's javelin throw | — | $30,250 |
| 457 | Akeem Bloomfield | Men's 400 m | 2 | $30,000 |
| 458 | Brittney Reese | Women's long jump | — | $30,000 |
| 459 | Dawid Wegner | Men's javelin throw | — | $30,000 |
| 460 | Maia McCoy | two disciplines | — | $30,000 |
| 461 | Omar Craddock | Men's triple jump | 1 | $30,000 |
| 462 | Steffin McCarter | Men's long jump | 1 | $30,000 |
| 463 | Viktoriya Tkachuk | Women's 400 m hurdles | — | $30,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Emma Coburn is 443rd of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $31,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Emma Coburn most
Prefontaine Classic 2019 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Hyvin Jepkemoi, Daisy Jepkemei, Courtney Frerichs, Winfred Yavi, Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal and Purity Cherotich Kirui.
Bislett Games 2018 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Daisy Jepkemei, Courtney Frerichs, Aisha Praught-Leer, Winfred Yavi, Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal and Purity Cherotich Kirui.
Weltklasse Zürich 2019 paid $4,000 for 6th in the 3000 m steeplechase, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Winfred Yavi, Celliphine Chespol, Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal, Mercy Chepkurui, Maruša Mišmaš and Beatrice Chepkoech.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Emma Coburn won?
$31,750, which ranks 443rd of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from twelve paid finishes between 2017 and 2026.
What is Emma Coburn's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2019 Prefontaine Classic. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 2nd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Emma Coburn gets paid?
Entirely by where she 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 women's 3000 m steeplechase 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 Emma Coburn ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Four 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. She are in the result tables on this site either way.
Is this everything Emma Coburn 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 her, 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 Emma Coburn is Django Lovett on $31,750, and one below Sharika Nelvis on $31,500. Emma Coburn 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 women's 3000 m steeplechase prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Emma Coburn has been paid in one of them. The biggest of the rest are women's 100 m, women's 100 m hurdles and women's 800 m. Every meeting she has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Prefontaine Classic has its own page across every edition of it.