Margaret Kipkemboi prize money
Margaret Kipkemboi has been paid $54,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 565th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 18 paid finishes in the women's 5000 m and women's 3000 m, 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
The 18 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $54,750 is 18 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.05% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the 19 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Cross Country Championships
What Margaret Kipkemboi ran on the grass
| RACE | PLACE | MARK | EARNED | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior women's race | 3rd | 31:09 | $10,000 | $20,000 |
The championships have paid Margaret Kipkemboi $10,000 of her 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 she ran on earned Kenya $20,000, 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 hers, and it is not added to the $54,750 at the top of this page. Shescored alongside Beatrice Chebet, Lilian Kasait Rengeruk and Agnes Jebet Ngetich, 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 Margaret Kipkemboi
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 5000 m | 11 | - | 2016 to 2023 | $30,000 |
| Women's 3000 m | 8 | - | 2016 to 2023 | $24,750 |
The women's 5000 m has paid Margaret Kipkemboi $30,000 of the $54,750, which is 55% of everything the series has given her.
Season by season
2016 to 2023, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2 | - | Athletissima | $4,000 |
| 2017 | 4 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $14,500 |
| 2018 | 1 | - | Prefontaine Classic | $2,000 |
| 2019 | 4 | - | AG Memorial Van Damme | $10,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 4 | - | Doha Diamond League | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 2 | - | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $4,750 |
| 2023 | 2 | - | Bislett Games | $4,500 |
season running total
2021 is the biggest of them, $15,000 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Margaret Kipkemboi in 2020, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $54,750.
Around Margaret Kipkemboi on the money list
Ranks 545 to 585
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 545 | Charlie Dobson | two disciplines | 2 | $56,250 |
| 546 | Hirut Meshesha | five disciplines | 2 | $56,250 |
| 547 | Ilya Ivanyuk | Men's high jump | 2 | $56,250 |
| 548 | Michelle-Lee Ahye | two disciplines | 1 | $56,250 |
| 549 | Josh Kerr | two disciplines | 2 | $56,000 |
| 550 | Mohamed Katir | three disciplines | 3 | $56,000 |
| 551 | Romaine Beckford | Men's high jump | - | $56,000 |
| 552 | Slimane Moula | Men's 800 m | 3 | $56,000 |
| 553 | Tirunesh Dibaba | Women's 5000 m | 5 | $56,000 |
| 554 | Anthonique Strachan | two disciplines | - | $55,750 |
| 555 | Nicholas Kimeli | two disciplines | 1 | $55,750 |
| 556 | Félix Sánchez | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $55,500 |
| 557 | Michel Tornéus | Men's long jump | - | $55,500 |
| 558 | Shalonda Solomon | two disciplines | - | $55,500 |
| 559 | Kayla White | two disciplines | 1 | $55,250 |
| 560 | Angelika Cichocka | three disciplines | 2 | $55,000 |
| 561 | Donald Scott | Men's triple jump | - | $55,000 |
| 562 | Irving Saladino | Men's long jump | 3 | $55,000 |
| 563 | Robert Biwott | three disciplines | 1 | $55,000 |
| 564 | Wayne Pinnock | Men's long jump | 2 | $55,000 |
| 565 | Margaret Kipkemboi | two disciplines | - | $54,750 |
| 566 | Ben Broeders | Men's pole vault | 1 | $54,500 |
| 567 | Cole Hocker | three disciplines | 1 | $54,500 |
| 568 | Dwight Thomas | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $54,500 |
| 569 | Ejgayehu Taye | two disciplines | - | $54,500 |
| 570 | Gabriel Tual | two disciplines | - | $54,500 |
| 571 | Kristin Pudenz | Women's discus throw | - | $54,500 |
| 572 | Ja'Kobe Tharp | Men's 110 m hurdles | 2 | $54,000 |
| 573 | Shakima Wimbley | Women's 400 m | - | $54,000 |
| 574 | Emily Grove | Women's pole vault | 1 | $53,750 |
| 575 | Filip Ingebrigtsen | five disciplines | - | $53,750 |
| 576 | Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko | Women's triple jump | - | $53,750 |
| 577 | Andrew Pozzi | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $53,500 |
| 578 | Clayton Murphy | three disciplines | - | $53,500 |
| 579 | Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie | two disciplines | - | $53,500 |
| 580 | Michael Hartfield | Men's long jump | 1 | $53,500 |
| 581 | Shelby McEwen | Men's high jump | 2 | $53,375 |
| 582 | Reece Prescod | two disciplines | 1 | $53,250 |
| 583 | Vashti Cunningham | Women's high jump | - | $53,250 |
| 584 | Christine Ohuruogu | Women's 400 m | 2 | $53,000 |
| 585 | Freddie Crittenden | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $53,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Margaret Kipkemboi is 565th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $54,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Margaret Kipkemboi most
Doha Diamond League 2021 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 3000 m, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Lilian Kasait Rengeruk, Hellen Obiri, Sheila Chelangat, Yasemin Can, Hawi Feysa and Eva Cherono.
AG Memorial Van Damme 2017 paid $6,000 for 4th in the 5000 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Beatrice Chepkoech, Lilian Kasait Rengeruk, Letesenbet Gidey, Eilish McColgan, Hellen Obiri and Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui.
AG Memorial Van Damme 2019 paid $5,000 for 5th in the 5000 m, one of eleven in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Agnes Tirop, Gabriela DeBues-Stafford, Fantu Worku, Beatrice Chepkoech, Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui and Eva Cherono.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Margaret Kipkemboi won?
$54,750, which ranks 565th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 18 paid finishes between 2016 and 2023.
What is Margaret Kipkemboi's biggest Diamond League payday?
$6,000, for finishing 2nd in the 3000 m at the 2021 Doha Diamond League. 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 Margaret Kipkemboi 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 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 Margaret Kipkemboi 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 Margaret Kipkemboi 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 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 Margaret Kipkemboi is Wayne Pinnock on $55,000, and one below Ben Broeders on $54,500. Margaret Kipkemboi is one of 221 Kenya athletes athletics has paid, and Kenya athletics prize money adds them up to $10,867,417 across all six competitions. For the event itself, see women's 5000 m prize money and women's 3000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 20 women's disciplines and Margaret Kipkemboi has been paid in two 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 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 women's race page.