Ronald Kwemoi prize money
Ronald Kwemoi has been paid $66,500 by the Diamond League, which ranks 469th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from sixteen paid finishes in the men's 1500 m, men's 3000 m and men's mile, three 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kamila Skolimowska Memorial 2024 | 3000 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2024 | 5000 m | 7th | $750 |
| Golden Gala Pietro Mennea 2024 | 5000 m | 13th | - |
| AG Memorial Van Damme 2024 | 5000 m | 10th | - |
| Bauhausgalan 2021 | 1500 m | 3rd | $3,500 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2021 | Mile | 4th | $2,000 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2021 | 1500 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2019 | 1500 m | 6th | $2,000 |
| Doha Diamond League 2017 | 3000 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Meeting de Paris 2017 | 3000 m | 2nd | $6,000 |
| Herculis 2017 | 1500 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Herculis 2016 | 1500 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Meeting Areva 2015 | 1500 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| Bislett Games 2015 | Mile | 5th | $2,500 |
| Weltklasse Zürich 2015 | 1500 m | 5th | $2,500 |
| Prefontaine Classic 2015 | Mile | 6th | $2,000 |
| Athletissima 2014 | 1500 m | 1st | $10,000 |
| Herculis 2014 | 1500 m | 3rd | $4,000 |
| All 18 | four disciplines | - | $66,500 |
The sixteen paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $66,500 is sixteen separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.06% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the 18 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The Olympic Games
What Ronald Kwemoi won in Paris
| EVENT | MEDAL | EARNED |
|---|---|---|
| Men's 5000 metres | Silver | - |
The silver in the men's 5000 metres paid nothing. Only a gold pays, so 97 of the 145 medals awarded on the athletics programme in Paris carried no money at all. 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 Ronald Kwemoi
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 1500 m | 9 | 2 | 2014 to 2021 | $42,000 |
| Men's 3000 m | 3 | 1 | 2017 to 2024 | $17,250 |
| Men's mile | 3 | - | 2015 to 2021 | $6,500 |
| Men's 5000 m | 3 | - | 2024 | $750 |
The men's 1500 m has paid Ronald Kwemoi $42,000 of the $66,500, which is 63% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2014 to 2024, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 2 | 1 | Athletissima | $14,000 |
| 2015 | 4 | - | Meeting Areva | $11,000 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | Herculis | $10,000 |
| 2017 | 3 | 1 | Doha Diamond League | $20,000 |
| 2018 | - | - | - | - |
| 2019 | 1 | - | Doha Diamond League | $2,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 3 | - | Bauhausgalan | $7,500 |
| 2022 | - | - | - | - |
| 2023 | - | - | - | - |
| 2024 | 4 | - | Kamila Skolimowska Memorial | $2,000 |
season running total
2017 is the biggest of them, $20,000 from three starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Ronald Kwemoi in 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2023, so those columns stand at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $66,500.
Around Ronald Kwemoi on the money list
Ranks 449 to 489
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 449 | Mackenzie Little | Women's javelin throw | 2 | $69,750 |
| 450 | Gelete Burka | three disciplines | 1 | $69,500 |
| 451 | Reynold Cheruiyot | four disciplines | 1 | $69,500 |
| 452 | Tina Clayton | Women's 100 m | 2 | $69,500 |
| 453 | Emma Green | Women's high jump | 1 | $69,000 |
| 454 | Tara Davis-Woodhall | Women's long jump | 4 | $69,000 |
| 455 | Warren Weir | Men's 200 m | 4 | $69,000 |
| 456 | Ana Šimić | Women's high jump | 1 | $68,583 |
| 457 | Angelina Topić | Women's high jump | 2 | $68,500 |
| 458 | Augustine Kiprono Choge | five disciplines | 3 | $68,500 |
| 459 | Chris Tomlinson | Men's long jump | - | $68,000 |
| 460 | Christopher Brown | Men's 400 m | 1 | $68,000 |
| 461 | Edwin Soi | two disciplines | 2 | $68,000 |
| 462 | Phanuel Koech | Men's 1500 m | 1 | $68,000 |
| 463 | Christabel Nettey | Women's long jump | 1 | $67,750 |
| 464 | Hana Moll | Women's pole vault | 3 | $67,500 |
| 465 | Ivan Ukhov | Men's high jump | 7 | $67,000 |
| 466 | Jillian Camarena-Williams | Women's shot put | - | $67,000 |
| 467 | Erriyon Knighton | two disciplines | 3 | $66,500 |
| 468 | Linda Stahl | Women's javelin throw | 1 | $66,500 |
| 469 | Ronald Kwemoi | four disciplines | 3 | $66,500 |
| 470 | Andrenette Knight | Women's 400 m hurdles | 1 | $66,250 |
| 471 | Fantaye Belayneh | two disciplines | 1 | $65,750 |
| 472 | Timur Morgunov | Men's pole vault | 1 | $65,750 |
| 473 | Sherone Simpson | two disciplines | - | $65,500 |
| 474 | Morgan Lake | Women's high jump | 1 | $65,417 |
| 475 | Rénelle Lamote | Women's 800 m | 1 | $65,250 |
| 476 | Danielle Carruthers | Women's 100 m hurdles | 2 | $65,000 |
| 477 | Elina Tzengko | Women's javelin throw | 3 | $65,000 |
| 478 | Matthias de Zordo | Men's javelin throw | 2 | $65,000 |
| 479 | Sondre Guttormsen | Men's pole vault | - | $64,250 |
| 480 | Winny Chebet | three disciplines | - | $64,250 |
| 481 | Jermaine Gonzales | Men's 400 m | 2 | $64,000 |
| 482 | Kathryn Mitchell | Women's javelin throw | - | $64,000 |
| 483 | Martina Ratej | Women's javelin throw | 1 | $64,000 |
| 484 | Morgan Uceny | two disciplines | 3 | $63,500 |
| 485 | Sentayehu Ejigu | two disciplines | 2 | $63,500 |
| 486 | Telahun Haile Bekele | two disciplines | 2 | $63,250 |
| 487 | Charonda Williams | two disciplines | 2 | $63,000 |
| 488 | Dwight Phillips | Men's long jump | 4 | $63,000 |
| 489 | Richard Thompson | two disciplines | 2 | $63,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Ronald Kwemoi is 469th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $66,500.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Ronald Kwemoi most
Doha Diamond League 2017 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 3000 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Paul Chelimo, Yomif Kejelcha, Caleb Ndiku, Albert Rop, Muktar Edris and Jacob Kiplimo.
Herculis 2016 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 1500 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Elijah Manangoi, Taoufik Makhloufi, Abdalaati Iguider, Mo Farah, Asbel Kiprop and Ryan Gregson.
Athletissima 2014 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 1500 m, one of eight in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Silas Kiplagat, James Kiplagat Magut, Aman Wote, Abdalaati Iguider, Collins Cheboi and Matthew Centrowitz Jr..
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Ronald Kwemoi won?
$66,500, which ranks 469th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from sixteen paid finishes between 2014 and 2024.
What is Ronald Kwemoi's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 3000 m at the 2017 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 1st and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Ronald Kwemoi 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 1500 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 Ronald Kwemoi won?
Three of 18, worth $30,000 between them. One of his appearance came at a final, which paid $2,000.
Has Ronald Kwemoi 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 Ronald Kwemoi 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 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 Ronald Kwemoi is Linda Stahl on $66,500, and one below Andrenette Knight on $66,250. Ronald Kwemoi 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 1500 m prize money, men's 3000 m prize money, men's mile prize money and men's 5000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Ronald Kwemoi has been paid in four 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 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial has its own page across every edition of it.