Keturah Orji prize money
Keturah Orji has been paid $25,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 1001st of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from eleven paid finishes in the women's triple jump, 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
| MEETING | DISCIPLINE | PLACE | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prefontaine Classic 2024 | Triple jump | 4th | $2,000 |
| Bauhausgalan 2024 | Triple jump | 6th | $1,000 |
| Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat 2023 | Triple jump | 7th | $750 |
| Bislett Games 2023 | Triple jump | 7th | $750 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2023 | Triple jump | 7th | $750 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2023 | Triple jump | 10th | - |
| Herculis 2022 | Triple jump | 5th | $1,250 |
| Müller Grand Prix Gateshead 2021 | Triple jump | 5th | $1,250 |
| Doha Diamond League 2021 | Triple jump | 5th | $1,250 |
| Oslo Bislett Games 2019 | Triple jump | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2019 | Triple jump | 4th | $6,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2019 | Triple jump | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Herculis 2019 | Triple jump | 9th | - |
| All thirteen | Women's triple jump | - | $25,000 |
The eleven paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $25,000 is eleven 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. Two of the thirteen starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Season by season
2019 to 2024, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 4 | - | Oslo Bislett Games | $16,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 2 | - | Müller Grand Prix Gateshead | $2,500 |
| 2022 | 1 | - | Herculis | $1,250 |
| 2023 | 4 | - | Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat | $2,250 |
| 2024 | 2 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $3,000 |
season running total
2019 is the biggest of them, $16,000 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Keturah Orji in 2020, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $25,000.
Around Keturah Orji on the money list
Ranks 981 to 1021
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 981 | Troy Doris | Men's triple jump | - | $26,000 |
| 982 | Calvin Smith | two disciplines | 1 | $25,750 |
| 983 | Liemarvin Bonevacia | Men's 400 m | - | $25,750 |
| 984 | Lurdes Gloria Manuel | Women's 400 m | - | $25,750 |
| 985 | Norbert Kobielski | Men's high jump | - | $25,750 |
| 986 | Thibaut Collet | Men's pole vault | - | $25,542 |
| 987 | Desirèe Henry | two disciplines | - | $25,500 |
| 988 | Gilbert Kirui | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $25,500 |
| 989 | Lilian Odira | Women's 800 m | 1 | $25,500 |
| 990 | Mélanie Melfort | Women's high jump | - | $25,500 |
| 991 | Omar Cisneros | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $25,500 |
| 992 | Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $25,500 |
| 993 | Ronald Musagala | three disciplines | 1 | $25,500 |
| 994 | Siham Hilali | three disciplines | - | $25,500 |
| 995 | Patryk Dobek | two disciplines | - | $25,250 |
| 996 | Steven Lewis | Men's pole vault | - | $25,250 |
| 997 | Derek Miles | Men's pole vault | - | $25,083 |
| 998 | Andrew Riley | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $25,000 |
| 999 | Asier Martínez | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $25,000 |
| 1000 | Dimitrios Chondrokoukis | Men's high jump | 2 | $25,000 |
| 1001 | Keturah Orji | Women's triple jump | - | $25,000 |
| 1002 | Luxolo Adams | Men's 200 m | 1 | $25,000 |
| 1003 | Melissa Bishop-Nriagu | Women's 800 m | - | $25,000 |
| 1004 | Nick Symmonds | Men's 800 m | - | $25,000 |
| 1005 | Ryan Brathwaite | Men's 110 m hurdles | 1 | $25,000 |
| 1006 | Samyr Laine | Men's triple jump | - | $25,000 |
| 1007 | Trell Kimmons | two disciplines | - | $25,000 |
| 1008 | Chukwuebuka Enekwechi | Men's shot put | - | $24,750 |
| 1009 | Anna Pyatykh | Women's triple jump | - | $24,500 |
| 1010 | Boaz Kiplagat Lalang | two disciplines | - | $24,500 |
| 1011 | Christine Day | Women's 400 m | - | $24,500 |
| 1012 | Dimitri Bascou | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $24,500 |
| 1013 | Dmitriy Tarabin | Men's javelin throw | - | $24,500 |
| 1014 | Emiliano Lasa | Men's long jump | - | $24,500 |
| 1015 | Ethan Strand | two disciplines | 1 | $24,500 |
| 1016 | Imogen Ayris | Women's pole vault | - | $24,500 |
| 1017 | Kori Carter | Women's 400 m hurdles | - | $24,500 |
| 1018 | Ladislav Prášil | Men's shot put | - | $24,500 |
| 1019 | Libania Grenot | two disciplines | - | $24,500 |
| 1020 | Marquise Goodwin | Men's long jump | 1 | $24,500 |
| 1021 | Nadia Battocletti | three disciplines | 1 | $24,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Keturah Orji is 1001st of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $25,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Keturah Orji most
Oslo Bislett Games 2019 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the triple jump, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Shanieka Ricketts, Kimberly Williams, Paraskevi Papachristou, Olha Saladukha, Patrícia Mamona and Kristin Gierisch.
Weltklasse Zürich 2019 paid $6,000 for 4th in the triple jump, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Paraskevi Papachristou, Patrícia Mamona, Kimberly Williams, Ana Peleteiro, Shanieka Ricketts and Yulimar Rojas.
Meeting de Paris 2019 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the triple jump, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Shanieka Ricketts, Ana Peleteiro, Kimberly Williams, Olha Saladukha, Olga Rypakova and Yulimar Rojas.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Keturah Orji won?
$25,000, which ranks 1001st of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from eleven paid finishes between 2019 and 2024.
What is Keturah Orji's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the triple jump at the 2019 Oslo 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 Keturah Orji 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 triple jump 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 Keturah Orji ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Two 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.
Is this everything Keturah Orji earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 224 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 3,683 athletes across the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Keturah Orji is Dimitrios Chondrokoukis on $25,000, and one below Luxolo Adams on $25,000. Keturah Orji 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 women's triple jump prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Keturah Orji 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 400 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.