Samwel Chebolei Masai prize money
Samwel Chebolei Masai has been paid $3,250 by the Diamond League, which ranks 2351st of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from two paid finishes in the men's 5000 m, the best of them 4th.
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 | 14th | - |
| Xiamen Diamond League 2024 | 5000 m | 4th | $2,000 |
| Diamond League Shanghai 2024 | 5000 m | 5th | $1,250 |
| All three | Men's 5000 m | - | $3,250 |
The two paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $3,250 is two separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.00% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. One of the three starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
The World Cross Country Championships
What Samwel Chebolei Masai ran on the grass
| RACE | PLACE | MARK | EARNED | TEAM PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior men's race | 5th | 28:18 | $5,000 | $20,000 |
The championships have paid Samwel Chebolei Masai $5,000 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 $3,250 at the top of this page. Hescored alongside Benson Kiplangat and Nicholas Kimeli, 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.
Season by season
2024 to 2025, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | - | Xiamen Diamond League | $3,250 |
| 2025 | 1 | - | Diamond League Shanghai | - |
season running total
2024 is the biggest of them, $3,250 from two starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Samwel Chebolei Masai in 2025, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $3,250.
Around Samwel Chebolei Masai on the money list
Ranks 2331 to 2371
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2331 | Simon Wieland | Men's javelin throw | - | $3,500 |
| 2332 | Stine Kufaas | Women's high jump | - | $3,500 |
| 2333 | Success Eduan | Women's 200 m | - | $3,500 |
| 2334 | Summer Pierson | Women's discus throw | - | $3,500 |
| 2335 | Teresa Nzola Meso | Women's triple jump | - | $3,500 |
| 2336 | Tony van Diepen | two disciplines | - | $3,500 |
| 2337 | Valentina Rosamilia | Women's 800 m | - | $3,500 |
| 2338 | William Grimsey | Men's high jump | - | $3,500 |
| 2339 | Xie Zhiyu | two disciplines | - | $3,500 |
| 2340 | Stefano Sottile | Men's high jump | - | $3,375 |
| 2341 | Assia Raziki | Women's 800 m | - | $3,250 |
| 2342 | Brett Robinson | Men's 5000 m | - | $3,250 |
| 2343 | David King | Men's 110 m hurdles | - | $3,250 |
| 2344 | Esther Guerrero | two disciplines | - | $3,250 |
| 2345 | Jamie Webb | Men's 800 m | - | $3,250 |
| 2346 | Kristen Brown | Women's pole vault | - | $3,250 |
| 2347 | Leah Falland | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $3,250 |
| 2348 | Oskar Edlund | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $3,250 |
| 2349 | Rani Rosius | two disciplines | - | $3,250 |
| 2350 | Revée Walcott-Nolan | three disciplines | - | $3,250 |
| 2351 | Samwel Chebolei Masai | Men's 5000 m | - | $3,250 |
| 2352 | Yuliya Chumachenko | Women's high jump | - | $3,250 |
| 2353 | Abria Smith | Women's shot put | - | $3,000 |
| 2354 | Ali Kaya | two disciplines | - | $3,000 |
| 2355 | Alice Schmidt | Women's 800 m | - | $3,000 |
| 2356 | Amber Hughes | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $3,000 |
| 2357 | Anna Avdeyeva | Women's shot put | - | $3,000 |
| 2358 | Annsert Whyte | Men's 400 m hurdles | - | $3,000 |
| 2359 | Antonina Yefremova | Women's 400 m | - | $3,000 |
| 2360 | Belaynesh Oljira | two disciplines | - | $3,000 |
| 2361 | Bernesh Dessie | two disciplines | - | $3,000 |
| 2362 | Brandon Roulhac | Men's triple jump | - | $3,000 |
| 2363 | Brendon Rodney | Men's 200 m | - | $3,000 |
| 2364 | Caisja Chandler | Women's 200 m | - | $3,000 |
| 2365 | Chen Qi | Men's javelin throw | - | $3,000 |
| 2366 | Chesari Kirui Jacob | Men's 5000 m | - | $3,000 |
| 2367 | Chris O'Hare | Men's 1500 m | - | $3,000 |
| 2368 | Claire Perraux | Women's 3000 m steeplechase | - | $3,000 |
| 2369 | Déborah Sananes | Women's 400 m | - | $3,000 |
| 2370 | Deresse Mekonnen | two disciplines | - | $3,000 |
| 2371 | Derval O'Rourke | Women's 100 m hurdles | - | $3,000 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Samwel Chebolei Masai is 2351st of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $3,250.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Samwel Chebolei Masai most
Xiamen Diamond League 2024 paid $2,000 for 4th in the 5000 m, one of 18 in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Addisu Yihune, Cornelius Kemboi, Ronald Kwemoi, Kuma Girma, Benson Kiplangat and Stewart McSweyn.
Diamond League Shanghai 2024 paid $1,250 for 5th in the 5000 m, one of fourteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Mike Foppen, Morgan McDonald, Nibret Kinde, Jack Rayner, Sam Parsons and Brian Fay.
Diamond League Shanghai 2025 paid $0 for 14th in the 5000 m, one of sixteen in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Jude Thomas, Berihu Aregawi, Kuma Girma, Mezgebu Sime, Nicholas Kimeli and Keneth Kiprop.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Samwel Chebolei Masai won?
$3,250, which ranks 2351st of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from two paid finishes between 2024 and 2025.
What is Samwel Chebolei Masai's biggest Diamond League payday?
$2,000, for finishing 4th in the 5000 m at the 2024 Xiamen 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 4th and would have paid anybody who finished there.
How does the Diamond League decide what Samwel Chebolei Masai 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 Samwel Chebolei Masai 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 Samwel Chebolei Masai 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 Samwel Chebolei Masai is Revée Walcott-Nolan on $3,250, and one below Yuliya Chumachenko on $3,250. Samwel Chebolei Masai 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. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Samwel Chebolei Masai has been paid in one 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.