Nicholas Kimeli prize money
Nicholas Kimeli has been paid $55,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 555th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from thirteen paid finishes in the men's 5000 m and men's 3000 m, one of them a win.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond League Shanghai 2025 | 5000 m | 4th | $3,000 |
| Bislett Games 2025 | 5000 m | 14th | - |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2024 | 5000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 | 5000 m | 4th | $4,000 |
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2024 | 3000 m | 9th | - |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2024 | 5000 m | 9th | - |
| Herculis EBS 2023 | 5000 m | 7th | $750 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2023 | 5000 m | 15th | - |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2022 | 5000 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2022 | 5000 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Herculis 2022 | 3000 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| Müller Grand Prix Gateshead 2021 | 5000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Bislett Games 2021 | 3000 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Athletissima 2021 | 3000 m | 11th | - |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2019 | 5000 m | 3rd | $10,000 |
| Oslo Bislett Games 2019 | 3000 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| IAAF Diamond League Shanghai 2019 | 5000 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Athletissima 2019 | 5000 m | 8th | $1,000 |
| All 18 | two disciplines | - | $55,750 |
The thirteen paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $55,750 is thirteen 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. Five of the 18 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Cross Country Championships
What Nicholas Kimeli ran on the grass
| RACE | PLACE | MARK | EARNED | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior men's race | 4th | 28:16 | $7,000 | $20,000 |
The championships have paid Nicholas Kimeli $7,000 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 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 his, and it is not added to the $55,750 at the top of this page. Hescored alongside Benson Kiplangat and Samwel Chebolei Masai, 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 Nicholas Kimeli
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 m | 13 | 1 | 2019 to 2025 | $46,250 |
| Men's 3000 m | 5 | - | 2019 to 2024 | $9,500 |
The men's 5000 m has paid Nicholas Kimeli $46,250 of the $55,750, which is 83% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2019 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 4 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $17,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 3 | - | Müller Grand Prix Gateshead | $9,500 |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 | Golden Gala Pietro Mennea | $15,500 |
| 2023 | 2 | - | Herculis EBS | $750 |
| 2024 | 4 | - | Xiamen Diamond League | $10,000 |
| 2025 | 2 | - | Diamond League Shanghai | $3,000 |
season running total
2019 is the biggest of them, $17,000 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Nicholas Kimeli in 2020, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $55,750.
Around Nicholas Kimeli on the money list
Ranks 535 to 575
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 535 | Christina Clemons | Women's 100 m hurdles | 1 | $57,500 |
| 536 | Taoufik Makhloufi | three disciplines | 1 | $57,500 |
| 537 | Amos Serem | Men's 3000 m steeplechase | 1 | $57,250 |
| 538 | Aman Wote | two disciplines | 1 | $57,000 |
| 539 | Dejen Gebremeskel | Men's 5000 m | 3 | $57,000 |
| 540 | Malika Akkaoui | two disciplines | - | $57,000 |
| 541 | Saly Sarr | Women's triple jump | 2 | $57,000 |
| 542 | Isiah Young | two disciplines | - | $56,750 |
| 543 | Oliver Hoare | two disciplines | 1 | $56,750 |
| 544 | Bayapo Ndori | Men's 400 m | 1 | $56,500 |
| 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 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Nicholas Kimeli is 555th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $55,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Nicholas Kimeli most
Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2022 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 5000 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Jacob Krop, Yomif Kejelcha, Selemon Barega, Mohammed Ahmed, Telahun Haile Bekele and Muktar Edris.
Weltklasse Zürich 2019 paid $10,000 for 3rd in the 5000 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Telahun Haile Bekele, Selemon Barega, Yomif Kejelcha, Stanley Mburu, Paul Chelimo and Ben True.
Xiamen Diamond League 2024 paid $6,000 for 2nd in the 5000 m, one of 18 in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Birhanu Balew, Samwel Chebolei Masai, Addisu Yihune, Cornelius Kemboi, Ronald Kwemoi and Kuma Girma.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Nicholas Kimeli won?
$55,750, which ranks 555th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from thirteen paid finishes between 2019 and 2025.
What is Nicholas Kimeli's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 5000 m at the 2022 Golden Gala Pietro Mennea. The Diamond League pays by place rather than by performance, so that figure is what the card in force that season paid for 1st and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Nicholas Kimeli 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 Nicholas Kimeli won?
One of 18, worth $10,000 between them. Two of his appearances came at a final, which paid $14,000.
Has Nicholas Kimeli ever raced a Diamond League meeting for nothing?
Five 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 Nicholas Kimeli 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 Nicholas Kimeli is Anthonique Strachan on $55,750, and one below Félix Sánchez on $55,500. Nicholas Kimeli 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 men's 5000 m prize money and men's 3000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Nicholas Kimeli 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 Diamond League Shanghai 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.