Jacob Kiplimo prize money
Jacob Kiplimo has been paid $22,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1086th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from seven paid finishes in the men's 5000 m, men's 3000 m and men's 2 miles, 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 he finished, and what the card paid for it
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bislett Games 2024 | 5000 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Bislett Games 2023 | 5000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Herculis EBS 2023 | 5000 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2022 | 3000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2021 | 2 miles | 4th | $2,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2018 | 5000 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2017 | 3000 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| All seven | three disciplines | - | $22,000 |
The seven paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $22,000 is seven 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.
The World Cross Country Championships
What Jacob Kiplimo ran on the grass, 2024 and 2026
| RACE | PLACE | MARK | EARNED | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior men's race | 1st | 28:09 | $30,000 | $16,000 |
| Senior men's race | 1st | 28:18 | $30,000 | $12,000 |
The championships have paid Jacob Kiplimo $60,000 of his own, for two finishes inside the first six, and both of them wins. A senior race pays $30,000 to win and $3,000 for 6th, and nothing at all to the seventh runner home. The teams he ran on earned Uganda $28,000, all of it from a team standing, which is settled on the places of the first four runners a country gets home. It is the federation's money rather than his, and it is not added to the $22,000 at the top of this page. Hescored alongside Joshua Cheptegei and Keneth Kiprop, and the Diamond League has paid every one of them too. The cross country page holds all 10 races across two championships and the $620,000 they paid out.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Jacob Kiplimo
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 m | 4 | - | 2018 to 2024 | $12,500 |
| Men's 3000 m | 2 | - | 2017 to 2022 | $7,500 |
| Men's 2 miles | 1 | - | 2021 | $2,000 |
The men's 5000 m has paid Jacob Kiplimo $12,500 of the $22,000, which is 57% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2017 to 2024, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | - | Doha Diamond League | $1,500 |
| 2018 | 1 | - | Bauhausgalan | $2,000 |
| 2019 | - | - | - | - |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 1 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $2,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | - | Bauhausgalan | $6,000 |
| 2023 | 2 | - | Bislett Games | $7,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | - | Bislett Games | $3,500 |
season running total
2023 is the biggest of them, $7,000 from two starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Jacob Kiplimo in 2019 and 2020, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $22,000.
Around Jacob Kiplimo on the money list
Ranks 1066 to 1106
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1066 | Kuma Girma | three disciplines | - | $22,750 |
| 1067 | Maksim Nedasekau | Men's high jump | - | $22,750 |
| 1068 | Abadi Hadis | Men's 5000 m | - | $22,500 |
| 1069 | Agathe Guillemot | three disciplines | - | $22,500 |
| 1070 | Aleksandr Shustov | Men's high jump | - | $22,500 |
| 1071 | Anna Willard | two disciplines | - | $22,500 |
| 1072 | Armin Sinančević | Men's shot put | - | $22,500 |
| 1073 | Barbara Pierre | two disciplines | - | $22,500 |
| 1074 | Ekaterina Guliyev | Women's 800 m | 1 | $22,500 |
| 1075 | James Ellington | two disciplines | - | $22,500 |
| 1076 | John Kipkoech | two disciplines | - | $22,500 |
| 1077 | Luis Alberto Rivera Morales | Men's long jump | - | $22,500 |
| 1078 | Marilyn Okoro | Women's 800 m | - | $22,500 |
| 1079 | Milan Trajkovic | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $22,500 |
| 1080 | Ralford Mullings | Men's discus throw | 1 | $22,500 |
| 1081 | Roshawn Clarke | Men's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $22,500 |
| 1082 | Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake | two disciplines | - | $22,250 |
| 1083 | Antonio Alkana | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $22,000 |
| 1084 | Clement Kimutai Kemboi | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $22,000 |
| 1085 | Henrik Janssen | Men's discus throw | - | $22,000 |
| 1086 | Jacob Kiplimo | three disciplines | - | $22,000 |
| 1087 | Lisa Dobriskey | two disciplines | - | $22,000 |
| 1088 | Marshevet Hooker | two disciplines | - | $22,000 |
| 1089 | Ronnie Ash | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $22,000 |
| 1090 | Rose-Marie Whyte-Robinson | Women's 400 m | - | $22,000 |
| 1091 | Augusto Dutra | Men's pole vault | - | $21,750 |
| 1092 | Morolake Akinosun | two disciplines | - | $21,750 |
| 1093 | Trevor Barry | Men's high jump | - | $21,750 |
| 1094 | Ancuţa Bobocel | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $21,500 |
| 1095 | Anna Rüh | Women's discus throw | - | $21,500 |
| 1096 | Hamish Peacock | Men's javelin throw | - | $21,500 |
| 1097 | Moses Ndiema Kipsiro | two disciplines | - | $21,500 |
| 1098 | Selina Büchel | Women's 800 m | - | $21,500 |
| 1099 | Senayet Getachew | two disciplines | - | $21,500 |
| 1100 | Snežana Vukmirovič | Women's triple jump | - | $21,500 |
| 1101 | T'erea Brown | Women's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $21,500 |
| 1102 | Tarik Langat Akdag | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $21,500 |
| 1103 | Alexander Doom | Men's 400 m | 1 | $21,250 |
| 1104 | Ben Pattison | two disciplines | - | $21,250 |
| 1105 | Marcell Jacobs | Men's 100 m | - | $21,250 |
| 1106 | Sage Watson | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $21,250 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Jacob Kiplimo is 1086th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $22,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Jacob Kiplimo most
Bislett Games 2023 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 5000 m, one of sixteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Telahun Haile Bekele, Joe Klecker, Luis Grijalva, Thierry Ndikumwenayo, Samuel Tefera and Ishmael Kipkurui.
Bauhausgalan 2022 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 3000 m, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Cornelius Kemboi, Stewart McSweyn, Thierry Ndikumwenayo, Luis Grijalva, Mike Foppen and Narve Gilje Nordås.
Bislett Games 2024 paid $3,500 for 3rd in the 5000 m, one of 19 in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Thierry Ndikumwenayo, Addisu Yihune, Luis Grijalva, Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu, Andreas Almgren and Joshua Cheptegei.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Jacob Kiplimo won?
$22,000, which ranks 1086th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from seven paid finishes between 2017 and 2024.
What is Jacob Kiplimo's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the 5000 m at the 2023 Bislett Games. 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 Jacob Kiplimo 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.
Is this everything Jacob Kiplimo earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Cross Country Championships 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 Jacob Kiplimo is Henrik Janssen on $22,000, and one below Lisa Dobriskey on $22,000. Jacob Kiplimo is one of 19 Uganda athletes athletics has paid, and Uganda athletics prize money adds them up to $599,750 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 5000 m prize money, men's 3000 m prize money and men's 2 miles prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Jacob Kiplimo has been paid in three 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 Bislett Games has its own page across every edition of it. Cross country prize money is the Belgrade 2024 and Tallahassee 2026 championships, $620,000 put up across 10 races, half of it a runner's and half of it a federation's, and the race is on the senior men's race page.