Joshua Cheptegei prize money
Joshua Cheptegei has been paid $96,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 333rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from thirteen paid finishes in the men's 5000 m, men's 2 miles and men's 3000 m, two of them wins.
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 | 9th | - |
| Athletissima 2023 | 5000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2023 | 5000 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2021 | 2 miles | 1st | $10,000 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2021 | 5000 m | 6th | $1,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2019 | 5000 m | 1st | $50,000 |
| Oslo Bislett Games 2019 | 3000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Athletissima 2019 | 5000 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| IAAF Diamond League Shanghai 2019 | 5000 m | 7th | $1,500 |
| Athletissima 2017 | 5000 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2017 | 5000 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2017 | 3000 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| Shanghai Golden Grand Prix 2016 | 5000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2016 | 5000 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| All fourteen | three disciplines | - | $96,500 |
The thirteen paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $96,500 is thirteen separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.09% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the fourteen starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Cross Country Championships
What Joshua Cheptegei ran on the grass
| RACE | PLACE | MARK | EARNED | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior men's race | 6th | 28:24 | $3,000 | $16,000 |
The championships have paid Joshua Cheptegei $3,000 of his own, for one finish inside the first six. A senior race pays $30,000 to win and $3,000 for 6th, and nothing at all to the seventh runner home. The team he ran on earned Uganda $16,000, 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 $96,500 at the top of this page. Hescored alongside Jacob Kiplimo, and the Diamond League has paid them too. The cross country page holds all 10 races across two championships and the $620,000 they paid out.
The Olympic Games
What Joshua Cheptegei won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Men's 10,000 metres | Gold | $50,000 |
Joshua Cheptegei was paid $50,000 for the men's 10,000 metres in Paris, the first Games at which an athletics title carried prize money at all. Every one of the 48 golds paid the same $50,000. The Olympic page holds all 48 golds, the $2,400,000 they paid and what the circuit pays the same champions.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Joshua Cheptegei
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 m | 11 | 1 | 2016 to 2024 | $77,500 |
| Men's 2 miles | 1 | 1 | 2021 | $10,000 |
| Men's 3000 m | 2 | - | 2017 to 2019 | $9,000 |
The men's 5000 m has paid Joshua Cheptegei $77,500 of the $96,500, which is 80% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2016 to 2024, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 | - | Shanghai Golden Grand Prix | $7,000 |
| 2017 | 3 | - | Athletissima | $10,000 |
| 2018 | - | - | - | - |
| 2019 | 4 | 1 | Weltklasse Zürich | $60,500 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | Prefontaine Classic | $11,000 |
| 2022 | - | - | - | - |
| 2023 | 2 | - | Athletissima | $8,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | - | Bislett Games | - |
season running total
2019 is the biggest of them, $60,500 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Joshua Cheptegei in 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $96,500.
Around Joshua Cheptegei on the money list
Ranks 313 to 353
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 313 | Lukas Weißhaidinger | Men's discus throw | - | $102,000 |
| 314 | Tiffany Porter | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $102,000 |
| 315 | Ehsan Haddadi | Men's discus throw | 1 | $101,500 |
| 316 | Alexander Ogando | two disciplines | 2 | $101,250 |
| 317 | Ezekiel Kemboi | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 7 | $101,000 |
| 318 | Kamila Lićwinko | Women's high jump | 2 | $101,000 |
| 319 | Trey Cunningham | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $100,750 |
| 320 | Holly Bradshaw | Women's pole vault | - | $100,083 |
| 321 | Teddy Tamgho | Men's triple jump | 6 | $99,500 |
| 322 | Lieke Klaver | Women's 400 m | - | $98,750 |
| 323 | Fabrice Lapierre | Men's long jump | 2 | $98,000 |
| 324 | Juan Miguel Echevarría | Men's long jump | 4 | $98,000 |
| 325 | Gia Lewis-Smallwood | Women's discus throw | 1 | $97,500 |
| 326 | Adriana Vilagoš | Women's javelin throw | 2 | $97,250 |
| 327 | Donald Thomas | Men's high jump | 1 | $97,208 |
| 328 | Feng Bin | Women's discus throw | 3 | $97,000 |
| 329 | Kellie Wells | Women's 100 m hurdles | 2 | $97,000 |
| 330 | Tyson Gay | two disciplines | 8 | $97,000 |
| 331 | Chris Nilsen | Men's pole vault | 2 | $96,750 |
| 332 | Emma Zapletalová | Women's 400 m hurdles | 5 | $96,500 |
| 333 | Joshua Cheptegei | three disciplines | 2 | $96,500 |
| 334 | Shannon Rowbury | four disciplines | 2 | $96,500 |
| 335 | Julius Yego | Men's javelin throw | 2 | $96,000 |
| 336 | Zharnel Hughes | two disciplines | 2 | $95,500 |
| 337 | Mujinga Kambundji | two disciplines | 1 | $95,250 |
| 338 | Ronald Levy | Men's 110 m hurdles | 3 | $94,750 |
| 339 | Cleopatra Borel | Women's shot put | - | $94,500 |
| 340 | Yargelis Savigne | two disciplines | 7 | $94,500 |
| 341 | Jorinde van Klinken | two disciplines | 1 | $94,000 |
| 342 | Lamecha Girma | five disciplines | 6 | $94,000 |
| 343 | Sanya Richards-Ross | two disciplines | 5 | $93,500 |
| 344 | Luguelín Santos | Men's 400 m | 1 | $93,000 |
| 345 | Amy Hunt | two disciplines | - | $92,500 |
| 346 | Christophe Lemaitre | two disciplines | 1 | $92,500 |
| 347 | Chaunte Lowe | Women's high jump | 5 | $92,000 |
| 348 | Berihu Aregawi | three disciplines | 4 | $91,750 |
| 349 | Peruth Chemutai | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | 3 | $91,750 |
| 350 | L. J. van Zyl | Men's 400 m hurdles | 2 | $91,500 |
| 351 | Niels Laros | three disciplines | 3 | $91,000 |
| 352 | Nelly Chepchirchir | two disciplines | 4 | $90,750 |
| 353 | Levern Spencer | Women's high jump | 1 | $90,508 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Joshua Cheptegei is 333rd of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $96,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Joshua Cheptegei most
Weltklasse Zürich 2019 paid $50,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Hagos Gebrhiwet, Nicholas Kimeli, Telahun Haile Bekele, Selemon Barega, Yomif Kejelcha and Stanley Mburu.
Prefontaine Classic 2021 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 2 miles, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Selemon Barega, Paul Chelimo, Jacob Kiplimo, Berihu Aregawi, Grant Fisher and Joe Klecker.
Athletissima 2023 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 5000 m, one of thirteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Hagos Gebrhiwet, Telahun Haile Bekele, Selemon Barega, Birhanu Balew, Kuma Girma and Gemechu Dida.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Joshua Cheptegei won?
$96,500, which ranks 333rd of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from thirteen paid finishes between 2016 and 2024.
What is Joshua Cheptegei's biggest Diamond League payday?
$50,000, for finishing 1st in the 5000 m at the 2019 Weltklasse Zürich. 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 Joshua Cheptegei 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 win 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.
How many Diamond League meetings has Joshua Cheptegei won?
Two of fourteen, worth $60,000 between them. One of his appearance came at a final, which paid $50,000.
Has Joshua Cheptegei ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
One time. 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. That start is in the result table on this site either way.
Is this everything Joshua Cheptegei earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 meetings. The World Cross Country Championships and Olympic 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 Joshua Cheptegei is Emma Zapletalová on $96,500, and one below Shannon Rowbury on $96,500. Joshua Cheptegei 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 2 miles prize money and men's 3000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Joshua Cheptegei 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.