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Prefontaine Classic prize money

Prefontaine Classic has paid $4,311,250 to 530 athletes across seven editions, from 2019 to 2026. Jakob Ingebrigtsen has taken more of it than anyone, $89,000.

The Diamond League pays by finishing place and by nothing else, so the rate here is the series rate: $10,000 for a win at the 2026 edition, eight places paid in every discipline, and nothing for ninth. One of the seven editions here held the series final, which pays on its own ladder: $30,000 for a win at the 2023 final. 12 of the 115 disciplines on those programmes have been Diamond+, which pays double.

PAID HERE $4,311,250
A WIN IN 2026 $10,000
EDITIONS 7
DISCIPLINES 37
ATHLETES PAID 530

Who Prefontaine Classic has paid the most

Every edition on this site, added up

530 paid
The athletes Prefontaine Classic has paid the most across its 7 editions.
# ATHLETE PAID WINS BEST DAY HERE EARNED
1 Jakob Ingebrigtsen NOR 6 4 1st 2023 · 3000 m $89,000
2 Valarie Allman USA 4 4 1st 2023 · discus throw $70,000
3 Shericka Jackson JAM 5 2 1st 2023 · 100 m $69,000
4 Faith Kipyegon KEN 5 4 1st 2023 · 1500 m $64,000
5 Joe Kovacs USA 7 3 1st 2023 · shot put $63,000
6 Winfred Yavi BRN 6 2 1st 2023 · 3000 m steeplechase $56,000
7 Christian Coleman USA 5 3 1st 2023 · 100 m $55,500
8 Rai Benjamin USA 5 2 1st 2023 · 400 m hurdles $53,250
9 Armand Duplantis SWE 3 3 1st 2023 · pole vault $50,000
10 Chase Jackson USA 3 3 1st 2023 · shot put $50,000
11 Katie Moon USA 3 2 1st 2023 · pole vault $46,000
12 Yaroslava Mahuchikh UKR 3 2 1st 2023 · high jump $44,000
13 Andre De Grasse CAN 2 2 1st 2023 · 200 m $40,000
14 Athing Mu USA 2 2 1st 2023 · 800 m $40,000
15 Gudaf Tsegay ETH 3 1 1st 2023 · 5000 m $40,000
16 Keely Hodgkinson GBR 5 2 2nd 2023 · 800 m $39,250
17 Ryan Crouser USA 4 2 2nd 2023 · shot put $38,000
18 Kirani James GRN 3 1 1st 2023 · 400 m $37,500
19 Tobi Amusan NGR 2 1 1st 2023 · 100 m hurdles $36,000
20 Tara Davis-Woodhall USA 3 2 1st 2026 · long jump $33,500
21 Matthew Denny AUS 2 1 1st 2023 · discus throw $33,000
22 Ivana Španović SRB 3 1 1st 2023 · long jump $32,750
23 Hansle Parchment JAM 2 1 1st 2023 · 110 m hurdles $32,000
24 Yared Nuguse USA 4 0 2nd 2023 · mile $31,500
25 Andy Díaz ITA 1 1 1st 2023 · triple jump $30,000
26 Emmanuel Wanyonyi KEN 1 1 1st 2023 · 800 m $30,000
27 Femke Bol NED 1 1 1st 2023 · 400 m hurdles $30,000
28 Haruka Kitaguchi JPN 1 1 1st 2023 · javelin throw $30,000
29 Jakub Vadlejch CZE 1 1 1st 2023 · javelin throw $30,000
30 Marileidy Paulino DOM 1 1 1st 2023 · 400 m $30,000
31 Melissa Jefferson-Wooden USA 2 2 1st 2026 · 100 m $30,000
32 Simon Ehammer SUI 1 1 1st 2023 · long jump $30,000
33 Simon Koech KEN 1 1 1st 2023 · 3000 m steeplechase $30,000
34 Woo Sang-hyeok KOR 1 1 1st 2023 · high jump $30,000
35 Yulimar Rojas VEN 1 1 1st 2023 · triple jump $30,000
36 Kenny Bednarek USA 4 1 2nd 2023 · 200 m $28,500
37 Beatrice Chepkoech KEN 3 1 2nd 2023 · 3000 m steeplechase $28,000
38 Marie-Josée Ta Lou CIV 5 0 2nd 2023 · 100 m $27,250
39 Elaine Thompson-Herah JAM 3 2 1st 2022 · 100 m $27,000
40 Faith Cherotich KEN 4 1 1st 2026 · 3000 m steeplechase $26,500
Jakob Ingebrigtsen $89k Valarie Allman $70k Shericka Jackson $69k Faith Kipyegon $64k Joe Kovacs $63k Winfred Yavi $56k Christian Coleman $55k Rai Benjamin $53k Armand Duplantis $50k Chase Jackson $50k Katie Moon $46k Yaroslava Mahuchikh $44k Andre De Grasse $40k Athing Mu $40k Gudaf Tsegay $40k

Jakob Ingebrigtsen has collected $89,000 of the $4,311,250 this meeting has paid out, 2.1% of it. Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Valarie Allman and Faith Kipyegon have won here four times, more than anyone else. 197 of the 530 athletes the meeting has paid were paid at it more than once. The table lists the 40 biggest of 530.

Every edition of Prefontaine Classic

What each year's programme paid, and what a win was worth

$4,311,250
Every edition of Prefontaine Classic on this site, with its date, its disciplines and what it paid.
EDITION WHERE WHEN DISCIPLINES A WIN PAID
Prefontaine Classic 2026 Eugene Hayward Field 3 to 4 July 14 $10,000 $500,000
Prefontaine Classic 2025 Eugene Hayward Field 5 July 14 $10,000 $500,000
Prefontaine Classic 2024 Eugene Hayward Field 25 May 14 $10,000 $348,500
Prefontaine Classic 2023 the series final Eugene Hayward Field 16 to 17 September 32 $30,000 $1,880,500$1.9m
Prefontaine Classic 2022 Eugene Hayward Field 27 to 28 May 14 $10,000 $347,000
Prefontaine Classic 2021 Eugene Hayward Field 21 August 14 $10,000 $346,250
Prefontaine Classic 2019 Stanford Cobb Track and Angell Field 30 June 13 $10,000 $389,000
7 editions 2 cities — 115 — $4,311,250$4.3m

What each edition paid

season running total

The line is the running total. A meeting's pot is its rate multiplied by its programme, so the columns move with how many disciplines were on the card rather than with who turned up: the biggest edition here ran 32 disciplines and the smallest 13. The tall column is 2023, when the series final was held here and every discipline paid on the final ladder.

Every discipline held at Prefontaine Classic

How often each one has been on the programme, and what it has paid

37 disciplines
Every discipline Prefontaine Classic has run, with how many editions it appeared in.
DISCIPLINE EDITIONS PAID HERE
Men's mile 7 $255,000
Women's 800 m 7 $255,000
Men's shot put 7 $230,750
Women's 3000 m steeplechase 7 $222,500
Men's 100 m 6 $214,000
Women's 100 m 6 $205,000
Men's 400 m 5 $184,000
Men's 400 m hurdles 5 $169,500
Men's 200 m 5 $168,500
Women's 1500 m 5 $165,000
Women's discus throw 4 $158,500
Men's 110 m hurdles 4 $155,000
Women's long jump 4 $151,250
Women's shot put 4 $147,500
Women's high jump 4 $138,000
Women's 200 m 3 $115,000
Women's 5000 m 3 $115,000
Men's pole vault 3 $113,500
Women's pole vault 3 $104,750
Women's 100 m hurdles 2 $90,000
Men's discus throw 2 $87,500
Women's 400 m hurdles 2 $85,000
Women's triple jump 2 $80,500
Men's triple jump 2 $77,500
Men's 3000 m 1 $60,000
Men's 3000 m steeplechase 1 $60,000
Men's 800 m 1 $60,000
Women's 400 m 1 $60,000
Men's long jump 1 $59,000
Women's javelin throw 1 $59,000
Men's high jump 1 $57,500
Men's javelin throw 1 $57,500
Women's mile 1 $40,000
Women's 2 miles 1 $30,000
Women's 3000 m 1 $30,000
Men's 2 miles 1 $25,000
Men's 5000 m 1 $25,000
37 disciplines 115 $4,311,250$4.3m

A discipline that has been on every programme has paid more here than one that has been on two, and that is the whole of what the column above ranks: the rate is the same in all of them. Each discipline links to what it has paid across the series.

What each place has paid at Prefontaine Classic

The six ladders this meeting has paid under

eight places
What Prefontaine Classic has paid for each finishing place, on every rate card it has run under.
PLACE SERIES 2010-20 SERIES 2021-24 SERIES 2025-26 SERIES + 2025 SERIES + 2026 FINAL 2021-24
1st $10,000$10,000$10,000$20,000$20,000$30,000
2nd $6,000$6,000$6,000$10,000$6,000$12,000
3rd $4,000$3,500$4,000$6,000$4,000$7,000
4th $3,000$2,000$3,000$5,000$3,000$4,000
5th $2,500$1,250$2,500$3,000$2,500$2,500
6th $2,000$1,000$2,000$2,500$2,000$2,000
7th $1,500$750$1,500$2,000$1,500$1,500
8th $1,000$500$1,000$1,500$1,000$1,000
All eight $30,000$25,000$30,000$50,000$40,000$60,000

One column per ladder, and a column covers every discipline the meeting ran while that ladder was in force. The series ladder has been rewritten two times inside the run of editions here, and a win has paid $10,000 under every version of it. What moved is underneath: eighth place was worth $1,000 on the oldest card on this table and $1,000 on the current one, and the eight places together came to $30,000 against $30,000. There is no appearance money in any of it, nothing for a record and nothing for ninth, and where athletes tied they took the places between them and split the money for all of them.

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money has Prefontaine Classic paid?

$4,311,250 across seven editions, to 530 athletes from 74 countries. That is 8.0% of everything the Diamond League has paid across the nine seasons on this site.

What does a win at Prefontaine Classic pay?

$10,000, and double that in a Diamond+ discipline. It is the same figure in every discipline on the programme, so a win in the shot put pays what a win in the 100 m pays. One of the seven editions here was the series final, which pays several times what a series meeting pays.

Who has earned the most at Prefontaine Classic?

Jakob Ingebrigtsen, on $89,000 from six paid finishes, four of them wins. 197 of the 530 athletes the meeting has paid were paid at it more than once.

How many editions of Prefontaine Classic are on this site?

Seven, from 2019 to 2026. Those programmes ran 115 disciplines between them and produced 875 payments. It has been held in two cities over that run: Eugene and Stanford.

Which disciplines does Prefontaine Classic run?

37 different ones across the seven editions, and never all of them at once: the series rotates its programme, so men's mile has been on it seven times and a discipline's total here is its rate multiplied by how often it was run.

How far down the field does Prefontaine Classic pay?

Eight places, and ninth pays nothing however fast the race was. 875 payments have gone to 530 athletes at this meeting, and 178 other finishes in the same result tables were worth nothing at all.

Where to next

The rest of the Diamond League money

Diamond League prize money holds all nine seasons on this site, 104 meetings and $53,753,250. The 2026 season is at Diamond League 2026. Prefontaine Classic is one of 18 meetings on this site, and United States holds this one alone.

Every edition of Prefontaine Classic

Every other Diamond League meeting

Every Diamond League season