Wycliffe Kinyamal prize money
Wycliffe Kinyamal has been paid $140,750 by the Diamond League, which ranks 200th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid. It came from 33 paid finishes in the men's 800 m and men's 1000 m, six 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
The 33 paid figures add up because none of them contains another: a place is paid once, at that meeting, so $140,750 is 33 separate amounts rather than a running total. It is 0.1% of the $113,397,000 the 224 meetings on this site paid out between them. Two of the 35 starts paid nothing, because the series pays eight deep and the fields run past twenty.
Discipline by discipline
What each event has paid Wycliffe Kinyamal
| DISCIPLINE | STARTS | WINS | YEARS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 800 m | 34 | 6 | 2018 to 2026 | $138,750 |
| Men's 1000 m | 1 | - | 2022 | $2,000 |
The men's 800 m has paid Wycliffe Kinyamal $138,750 of the $140,750, which is 99% of everything the series has given him.
Season by season
2018 to 2026, in the order it was won
| SEASON | STARTS | WINS | BIGGEST | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 4 | 2 | IAAF Diamond League Shanghai | $28,000 |
| 2019 | 5 | 1 | Athletissima | $21,000 |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 2021 | 4 | 2 | Doha Diamond League | $27,000 |
| 2022 | 4 | - | Weltklasse Zürich | $8,000 |
| 2023 | 7 | 1 | Herculis EBS | $25,750 |
| 2024 | 6 | - | Xiamen Diamond League | $22,500 |
| 2025 | 4 | - | Doha Diamond League | $7,500 |
| 2026 | 1 | - | Shanghai Diamond League | $1,000 |
season running total
2018 is the biggest of them, $28,000 from four starts. No Diamond League meeting paid Wycliffe Kinyamal in 2020, so that column stands at nothing. The dimmer column behind each season is the running total, which reaches $140,750.
Around Wycliffe Kinyamal on the money list
Ranks 180 to 220
| # | ATHLETE | DISCIPLINE | WINS | PAID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 180 | Isaac Makwala | two disciplines | 1 | $148,750 |
| 181 | Aries Merritt | Men's 110 m hurdles | 8 | $148,500 |
| 182 | Jamal Britt | Men's 110 m hurdles | 5 | $148,500 |
| 183 | Kara Winger | Women's javelin throw | 3 | $148,000 |
| 184 | Michael Tinsley | Men's 400 m hurdles | 8 | $148,000 |
| 185 | Ramil Guliyev | two disciplines | 5 | $147,500 |
| 186 | Robert Harting | Men's discus throw | 11 | $147,500 |
| 187 | Oblique Seville | Men's 100 m | 5 | $146,000 |
| 188 | Collen Kebinatshipi | Men's 400 m | 6 | $145,500 |
| 189 | Mykolas Alekna | Men's discus throw | 7 | $145,500 |
| 190 | Simon Ehammer | Men's long jump | 3 | $145,500 |
| 191 | Rushell Clayton | Women's 400 m hurdles | 5 | $145,250 |
| 192 | Dani Stevens | Women's discus throw | 1 | $145,000 |
| 193 | Veronica Campbell Brown | two disciplines | 7 | $145,000 |
| 194 | Vernon Norwood | two disciplines | - | $143,250 |
| 195 | Mo Farah | three disciplines | 9 | $142,500 |
| 196 | Natoya Goule-Toppin | two disciplines | 1 | $142,500 |
| 197 | Sharika Nelvis | Women's 100 m hurdles | 4 | $142,500 |
| 198 | Churandy Martina | two disciplines | 2 | $142,000 |
| 199 | Madara Palameika | Women's javelin throw | 5 | $142,000 |
| 200 | Wycliffe Kinyamal | two disciplines | 6 | $140,750 |
| 201 | Alonso Edward | two disciplines | 8 | $140,500 |
| 202 | Trayvon Bromell | two disciplines | 6 | $140,500 |
| 203 | Yared Nuguse | two disciplines | 6 | $140,500 |
| 204 | Matthew Denny | Men's discus throw | 3 | $139,000 |
| 205 | Nadine Visser | Women's 100 m hurdles | 2 | $138,250 |
| 206 | Natasha Hastings | two disciplines | 3 | $138,000 |
| 207 | Keshorn Walcott | Men's javelin throw | 1 | $137,750 |
| 208 | Francena McCorory | Women's 400 m | 6 | $137,500 |
| 209 | Iryna Herashchenko | Women's high jump | 2 | $137,375 |
| 210 | Matthew Hudson-Smith | Men's 400 m | 5 | $136,750 |
| 211 | Piotr Lisek | Men's pole vault | 3 | $136,375 |
| 212 | Grant Holloway | Men's 110 m hurdles | 8 | $136,000 |
| 213 | Kurtis Marschall | Men's pole vault | 2 | $135,833 |
| 214 | Pascal Martinot-Lagarde | Men's 110 m hurdles | 6 | $135,500 |
| 215 | Hugues Fabrice Zango | Men's triple jump | 3 | $135,250 |
| 216 | Natalia Bukowiecka | Women's 400 m | 3 | $135,250 |
| 217 | Elijah Manangoi | three disciplines | 5 | $135,000 |
| 218 | Leonardo Fabbri | Men's shot put | 5 | $135,000 |
| 219 | Hamish Kerr | Men's high jump | 7 | $134,750 |
| 220 | Jenny Simpson | four disciplines | 4 | $133,500 |
A slice of the same list the Diamond League hub ranks in full. Wycliffe Kinyamal is 200th of the 3,683 athletes the 224 meetings on this site paid, on $140,750.
Who else was in the money
The rest of the eight, at the meetings that paid Wycliffe Kinyamal most
Herculis EBS 2023 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 800 m, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Slimane Moula, Marco Arop, Djamel Sedjati, Daniel Rowden, Bryce Hoppel and Yanis Meziane.
Doha Diamond League 2021 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 800 m, one of nine in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Ferguson Rotich, Daniel Rowden, Amel Tuka, Adrián Ben, Tshepo Tshite and Jamal Hairane.
Meeting de Paris 2021 paid $10,000 for 1st in the 800 m, one of ten in the field. Also paid that afternoon: Ferguson Rotich, Marco Arop, Peter Bol, Elliot Giles, Gabriel Tual and Amel Tuka.
Frequently asked questions
How much Diamond League prize money has Wycliffe Kinyamal won?
$140,750, which ranks 200th of the 3,683 athletes the series has paid across the 224 meetings on this site. It came from 33 paid finishes between 2018 and 2026.
What is Wycliffe Kinyamal's biggest Diamond League payday?
$10,000, for finishing 1st in the 800 m at the 2023 Herculis EBS. 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 Wycliffe Kinyamal 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 800 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 Wycliffe Kinyamal won?
Six of 35, worth $60,000 between them. Five of his appearances came at a final, which paid $13,000.
Has Wycliffe Kinyamal 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 Wycliffe Kinyamal 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 Wycliffe Kinyamal is Madara Palameika on $142,000, and one below Alonso Edward on $140,500. Wycliffe Kinyamal 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 800 m prize money and men's 1000 m prize money. The series has paid out in 21 men's disciplines and Wycliffe Kinyamal has been paid in two of them. The biggest of the rest are men's 100 m, men's pole vault and men's 200 m. Every meeting he has raced is linked in the table at the top of this page, and Shanghai Diamond League has its own page across every edition of it.