Ky Robinson prize money
Ky Robinson has been paid $7,000 by the Diamond League, which ranks 967th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid. It came from three paid finishes in the men's 5000 m and men's 3000 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weltklasse Zürich 2026 | 3000 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Bislett Games 2026 | 5000 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| Herculis EBS 2026 | 5000 m | 11th | — |
| Bauhausgalan 2025 | 5000 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Athletissima 2023 | 5000 m | 10th | — |
| All five | two disciplines | — | $7,000 |
The three paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $7,000 is three separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.01% of the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the five starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Championships
What Ky Robinson did in Tokyo, 2025
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 metres | 4th | 12:59.61 | $16,000 |
The 2025 World Championships paid Ky Robinson $16,000 for one finish in Tokyo, against $7,000 from five Diamond League starts between 2023 and 2026. Nine days there paid him more than any whole Diamond League season has. The championships page holds all 49 events and the $8,498,000 they paid out.
The Ultimate Championship
What Ky Robinson did in Budapest, 2026
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 metres | 9th | 13:04.09 | — |
Ky Robinson stood in one Ultimate Championship final in Budapest and finished outside the money. World Athletics pays the first three in each event, $150,000, $75,000 and $40,000, and publishes no rate below third, so there is no figure to put against where he finished. The championship page holds all 28 events and what each one paid.
The World Indoor Championships
What Ky Robinson did indoors
| EVENT | PLACE | MARK | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 3000 metres | 3rd | 7:47.09 | $10,000 |
The World Indoor Championships have paid Ky Robinson $10,000 for one finish in Nanjing 2025, against $7,000 from five Diamond League starts between 2023 and 2026. Three days indoors paid him more than any whole Diamond League season has. The indoor championships page holds all 53 finals across two editions and the $4,632,000 they paid out.
The World Cross Country Championships
What Ky Robinson ran on the grass
| RACE | PLACE | MARK | EARNED | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior men's race | 24th | 29:56 | — | — |
Ky Robinson has run one race here and was paid nothing in his own name. Only the first six across the line are, $30,000 for the win down to $3,000 for 6th, and there is no appearance money underneath it. No team standing he ran in finished inside the first six, which is as far as that ladder reaches: $20,000 to the winning country down to $4,000 for 6th, and every dollar of it a federation's. Hescored alongside Morgan McDonald, 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.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Ky Robinson
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 m | 4 | — | 2023 to 2026 | $5,000 |
| Men's 3000 m | 1 | — | 2026 | $2,000 |
The men's 5000 m has paid Ky Robinson $5,000 of the $7,000, which is 71% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2023 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | — | Athletissima | — |
| 2024 | — | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 1 | — | Bauhausgalan | $4,000 |
| 2026 | 3 | — | Weltklasse Zürich | $3,000 |
season running total
2025 is the biggest of them, $4,000 from one start. No Diamond League meeting paid Ky Robinson in 2023 and 2024, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $7,000.
Around Ky Robinson on the money list
Ranks 947 to 987
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 947 | Talitha Diggs | Women's 400 m | — | $7,500 |
| 948 | Thiago Braz da Silva | Men's pole vault | — | $7,500 |
| 949 | Vernon Turner | Men's high jump | — | $7,500 |
| 950 | Victoria Ohuruogu | Women's 400 m | — | $7,500 |
| 951 | Boglárka Takács | two disciplines | — | $7,250 |
| 952 | Charity Hufnagel | Women's high jump | — | $7,250 |
| 953 | Damian Czykier | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $7,250 |
| 954 | Emmanuel Bamidele | Men's 400 m | — | $7,250 |
| 955 | Gatis Čakšs | Men's javelin throw | — | $7,250 |
| 956 | Julien Watrin | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $7,250 |
| 957 | Margot Chevrier | Women's pole vault | — | $7,250 |
| 958 | Mario García | two disciplines | — | $7,250 |
| 959 | Nick Smidt | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $7,250 |
| 960 | Ryan Zeze | Men's 200 m | — | $7,250 |
| 961 | Águeda Marqués | two disciplines | — | $7,000 |
| 962 | Anna Hall | three disciplines | — | $7,000 |
| 963 | Brooke Stratton | Women's long jump | — | $7,000 |
| 964 | Dai Qianqian | Women's javelin throw | — | $7,000 |
| 965 | Gerson Baldé | Men's long jump | — | $7,000 |
| 966 | Kemar Mowatt | Men's 400 m hurdles | — | $7,000 |
| 967 | Ky Robinson | two disciplines | — | $7,000 |
| 968 | Luka Janežič | Men's 400 m | — | $7,000 |
| 969 | Marie-Julie Bonnin | Women's pole vault | — | $7,000 |
| 970 | Minke Bisschops | two disciplines | — | $7,000 |
| 971 | Murali Sreeshankar | Men's long jump | — | $7,000 |
| 972 | Natalia Linares | Women's long jump | — | $7,000 |
| 973 | Purity Cherotich Kirui | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $7,000 |
| 974 | Ruth Jebet | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $7,000 |
| 975 | Simone Facey | Women's 200 m | — | $7,000 |
| 976 | Tobias Potye | Men's high jump | — | $7,000 |
| 977 | William Reais | Men's 200 m | — | $7,000 |
| 978 | Yuliya Leantsiuk | Women's shot put | — | $7,000 |
| 979 | Avinash Sable | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | — | $6,750 |
| 980 | Benjamin Gföhler | Men's long jump | — | $6,750 |
| 981 | Chris Baker | Men's high jump | — | $6,750 |
| 982 | Emily Borthwick | Women's high jump | — | $6,750 |
| 983 | Gabriel Constantino | Men's 110 m hurdles | — | $6,750 |
| 984 | Huang Bokai | Men's pole vault | — | $6,750 |
| 985 | Jarrion Lawson | Men's long jump | — | $6,750 |
| 986 | Kaylin Whitney | Women's 400 m | — | $6,750 |
| 987 | Marvin Bracy | Men's 100 m | — | $6,750 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Ky Robinson is 967th of the 2,112 athletes the 104 meetings on this site paid, on $7,000.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Ky Robinson most
Bauhausgalan 2025 paid $4,000 for 3rd in the 5000 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Mike Foppen, Keneth Kiprop, Denis Kipkoech, Cole Hocker, Morgan Beadlescomb and Eduardo Herrera.
Weltklasse Zürich 2026 paid $2,000 for 6th in the 3000 m, one of fifteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Grant Fisher, Nico Young, Mezgebu Sime, Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu, Eduardo Herrera and Parker Wolfe.
Bislett Games 2026 paid $1,000 for 8th in the 5000 m, one of sixteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Biniam Mehary, Cornelius Kemboi, Ishmael Kipkurui, Jacob Krop, Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu and Isaac Kimeli.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Ky Robinson won?
$7,000, which ranks 967th of the 2,112 athletes the series has paid across the 104 meetings on this site. It came from three paid finishes between 2023 and 2026.
What is Ky Robinson's biggest Diamond League payday?
$4,000, for finishing 3rd in the 5000 m at the 2025 Bauhausgalan. 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 Ky Robinson 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.
Has Ky Robinson 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. He are in the result tables on this site either way.
How much did Ky Robinson win at the 2025 World Championships?
$16,000, from one paid final in Tokyo. The championships pay eight places in every event, $70,000 for a title down to $5,000 for 8th.
How much has Ky Robinson won at the World Indoor Championships?
$10,000, from one paid final in Nanjing 2025. An indoor title pays $40,000 and the ladder runs six places deep, down to $4,000 for 6th, the same in every event on the programme and the same for a relay team.
Is this everything Ky Robinson earns from athletics?
No. This is the Diamond League, which is one series of 104 meetings. The World Championships, World Indoor Championships and 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 2,112 athletes across the $53,753,250 the 104 meetings on this site paid out. One place above Ky Robinson is Kemar Mowatt on $7,000, and one below Luka Janežič on $7,000. Ky Robinson is one of 57 Australia athletes athletics has paid, and Australia athletics prize money adds them up to $2,530,500 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see men's 5000 m prize money and men's 3000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Ky Robinson has been paid in two 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 Weltklasse Zürich has its own page across every edition of it. Away from the series, World Championships prize money is Tokyo 2025, $8,498,000 paid eight places deep in every event, and the full final is on the men's 5000 metres page. 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 5000 metres page. Indoor championships prize money is the Nanjing 2025 and Toruń 2026 championships, $4,664,000 put up across 53 finals, and the indoor final is on the men's 3000 metres page. 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.