Hobbs Kessler prize money
Hobbs Kessler has been paid $18,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1211th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from nine paid finishes in the men's 1500 m, men's mile and men's 1000 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bislett Games 2026 | Mile | 4th | $3,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2026 | Mile | 4th | $3,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2026 | 1500 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2026 | 1500 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2026 | 1500 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2026 | 1500 m | 11th | - |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2025 | 1500 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2025 | Mile | 10th | - |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2025 | 1500 m | 14th | - |
| Athletissima 2024 | 1500 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2024 | 800 m | 8th | $500 |
| Herculis 2022 | 1000 m | 8th | $500 |
| All twelve | four disciplines | - | $18,000 |
The nine paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $18,000 is nine separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.02% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Three of the twelve starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The Ultimate Championship
What Hobbs Kessler did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 1500 metres | 3rd | 3:30.73 | $40,000 |
The Ultimate Championship paid Hobbs Kessler $40,000 for one finish over three days, against $18,000 from twelve Diamond League starts between 2022 and 2026. Three days there paid him more than any whole Diamond League season has. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Hobbs Kessler
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 1500 m | 7 | - | 2024 to 2026 | $11,000 |
| Men's mile | 3 | - | 2025 to 2026 | $6,000 |
| Men's 1000 m | 1 | - | 2022 | $500 |
| Men's 800 m | 1 | - | 2024 | $500 |
The men's 1500 m has paid Hobbs Kessler $11,000 of the $18,000, which is 61% 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 | 1 | - | Herculis | $500 |
| 2023 | - | - | - | - |
| 2024 | 2 | - | Athletissima | $4,000 |
| 2025 | 3 | - | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $1,500 |
| 2026 | 6 | - | Bislett Games | $12,000 |
season running total
2026 is the biggest of them, $12,000 from six starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Hobbs Kessler in 2023, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $18,000.
Around Hobbs Kessler on the money list
Ranks 1191 to 1231
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1191 | Shane Brathwaite | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $18,750 |
| 1192 | Zerfe Wondemagegn | two disciplines | - | $18,750 |
| 1193 | Charlene Lipsey | Women's 800 m | - | $18,500 |
| 1194 | Christin Wurth-Thomas | two disciplines | 1 | $18,500 |
| 1195 | Khadevis Robinson | Men's 800 m | 1 | $18,500 |
| 1196 | Lyukman Adams | Men's triple jump | 2 | $18,500 |
| 1197 | Michael Bingham | Men's 400 m | - | $18,500 |
| 1198 | Sheri-Ann Brooks | two disciplines | - | $18,500 |
| 1199 | Dariya Derkach | Women's triple jump | - | $18,250 |
| 1200 | Susan Ejore | Women's 1500 m | - | $18,250 |
| 1201 | Timothé Mumenthaler | two disciplines | - | $18,250 |
| 1202 | Worknesh Mesele | three disciplines | - | $18,250 |
| 1203 | Vita Styopina | Women's high jump | - | $18,083 |
| 1204 | Oksana Okuneva | Women's high jump | - | $18,050 |
| 1205 | Brahim Taleb | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $18,000 |
| 1206 | Brigitte Ann Foster-Hylton | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1207 | Cyréna Samba-Mayela | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $18,000 |
| 1208 | Egide Ntakarutimana | two disciplines | - | $18,000 |
| 1209 | Ewa Swoboda | Women's 100 m | - | $18,000 |
| 1210 | Germán Luján Lauro | Men's shot put | - | $18,000 |
| 1211 | Hobbs Kessler | four disciplines | - | $18,000 |
| 1212 | Ibrahim Jeilan | Men's 5000 m | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1213 | Irina Gumenyuk | Women's triple jump | - | $18,000 |
| 1214 | Jaida Ross | Women's shot put | - | $18,000 |
| 1215 | Lyudmila Kolchanova | Women's long jump | - | $18,000 |
| 1216 | McKenzie Long | two disciplines | - | $18,000 |
| 1217 | Raul Spank | Men's high jump | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1218 | Renata Pliś | four disciplines | - | $18,000 |
| 1219 | Roxana Gómez | Women's 400 m | - | $18,000 |
| 1220 | Tsigie Gebreselama | two disciplines | 1 | $18,000 |
| 1221 | Kateryna Tabashnyk | Women's high jump | - | $17,800 |
| 1222 | David Neville | Men's 400 m | - | $17,750 |
| 1223 | Margaret Akidor | two disciplines | 1 | $17,750 |
| 1224 | Shafiqua Maloney | two disciplines | - | $17,750 |
| 1225 | Michaela Hrubá | Women's high jump | - | $17,583 |
| 1226 | Aleksandr Gripich | Men's pole vault | - | $17,500 |
| 1227 | Alena Abramchuk | Women's shot put | - | $17,500 |
| 1228 | Balázs Baji | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $17,500 |
| 1229 | Brianna Glenn | Women's long jump | 1 | $17,500 |
| 1230 | Chandra Sturrup | Women's 100 m | - | $17,500 |
| 1231 | Geordie Beamish | four disciplines | - | $17,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Hobbs Kessler is 1211th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $18,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Hobbs Kessler most
Athletissima 2024 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 1500 m, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Reynold Cheruiyot, Brian Komen, Jochem Vermeulen, Azeddine Habz, Stefan Nillessen and Isaac Nader.
Bislett Games 2026 paid $3,000 for 4th in the mile, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Jake Wightman, Festus Lagat, Azeddine Habz, Andrew Coscoran, Reynold Cheruiyot and Robert Farken.
Prefontaine Classic 2026 paid $3,000 for 4th in the mile, one of twelve in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Timothy Cheruiyot, Cole Hocker, Robert Farken, Vincent Ciattei, Azeddine Habz and Reynold Cheruiyot.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Hobbs Kessler won?
$18,000, which ranks 1211th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from nine paid finishes between 2022 and 2026.
What is Hobbs Kessler's biggest Diamond League payday?
$3,500, for finishing 3rd in the 1500 m at the 2024 Athletissima. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 3rd and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Hobbs Kessler 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 1500 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 Hobbs Kessler ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Three 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. Those starts are in the result tables on this site either way.
How much did Hobbs Kessler win at the Ultimate Championship?
$40,000, from one paid final at the 2026 championship in Budapest. World Athletics pays $150,000 for a win there, $75,000 for second and $40,000 for third, the same in all 26 individual events.
Is this everything Hobbs Kessler earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The Ultimate Championship 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 Hobbs Kessler is Germán Luján Lauro on $18,000, and one below Ibrahim Jeilan on $18,000. Hobbs Kessler is one of 659 United States athletes athletics has paid, and United States athletics prize money adds them up to $29,436,125 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 1500 m prize money, men's mile prize money, men's 1000 m prize money and men's 800 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Hobbs Kessler has been paid in four of them. The biggest of the rest are men's 100 m, men's pole vault and men's 200 m. Every meeting he has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Bislett Games 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 1500 metres page.