2018 NYC Marathon - Appearance fees. Total of $2M

New York Marathon - 2018 APPEARANCE FEES

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MEN

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Geoffrey Kamworor - $300,000

Shura Kitata - $140,000

Tamirat Tola - $85,000

Lelisa Desisa - $75,000

Festus Talam - $30,000

Daniel Wanjiru - $60,000

Alphonce Simbu - $28,000

Bernard Lagat - $60,000

Chris Thompson - $27,000

Scott Fauble - $28,000

Juan Luis Barrios - $22,000

Jared Ward - $25,000

Abdi Abdirahman - $42,000

Chris Derrick - $21,000

Scott Smith - $18,000

Ryan Vail - $24,000

Shadrack Biwott - $19,000

Tim Ritchie - $12,000

TOTAL : $1,025,000

WOMEN

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Mary Keitany - $180,000

Vivian Cheruiyot - $140,000

Netsanet Gudeta - $77,000

Mamitu Daska - $65,000

Rahma Tusa - $57,000

Molly Huddle - $80,000

Shalane Flanagan - $200,000

Allie Kieffer - $35,000

Desiree Linden - $100,000

Askale Merachi - $19,000

Lisa Weightman - $19,000

Roberta Groner - $18,000

Carrie Dimoff - $17,000

Sydney Devore - $15,000

Sarah Sellers - $21,000

TOTAL : $1,040,000

Man, that's a lot of cash. Lagat earning as much as Wanjiru is wrong man.

Shalane and Desi are way to overrated.

I'm surprised how little, comparatively, for Ward. I know he hasn't been great since Rio, but dude is still an olympian, would not have guessed he would be getting less than so many of them.

Pretty sweet for Sellers - paid to enter Boston this spring, now getting $21k + expenses to run NYC. Good for her.

Any chance you have the numbers from last year? Would be curious how much, if at all, the numbers changed for Mary and Shalane.

Not to be that SJW guy, but 300k to the returning mens champ and only 200k to the returning womens champ, who is American? Kamworor has the accolades of world half champ as well.. but really?

Thought Lagat would command a little more, as I assume a lot of people are interested and will tune in to watch how he does.

How do Fauble/Smith/Vail command getting that much money?

What's the source of this info?

Yeah, that's not the full field.

I have an athlete running who was paid an appearance fee

Can someone give a source?

Only a very small group internally at the roadrunners would have have access. It would not be given out or shown to the press.

lklkk wrote:

Yeah, that's not the full field.

I have an athlete running who was paid an appearance fee

Based on what you know from your athlete, do the numbers seem in the ballpark?

My athlete got

Wow, do you realize if you put the less than sign, it erases everything? Must be a glitch...

My athlete received less than $10,000 USD. I think the appearance fees are in the right ballpark, but even I have to admit that I am surprised at a couple on that list. Some agents obviously do a better job negotiating than others. And the RD has better relationships with some agents and athletes than others.

and good luck to everyone tomorrow.

These numbers are wrong. I can promise you that.

It's not published anywhere and probably won't be. I got the information from a good friend who is in the organisation of the NYRR and shared it with you.

Take it with a grain of salt if you want but wouldn't have any reason to lie i guess, they seem pretty right to me.

Ca$$$h wrote:

Man, that's a lot of cash. Lagat earning as much as Wanjiru is wrong man.

Shalane and Desi are way to overrated.

Is it though? Not really. These are the professionals in our sport. Any other sport would have another zero behind it. Pay them more!

runlongandhard wrote:

Ca$$$h wrote:

Man, that's a lot of cash. Lagat earning as much as Wanjiru is wrong man.

Shalane and Desi are way to overrated.

Is it though? Not really. These are the professionals in our sport. Any other sport would have another zero behind it. Pay them more!

Being a professional doesn’t mean you should earn a certain amount. Other major sports pull in multi-billion dollar TV deals. How many people do you think are going to watch the NYC marathon tomorrow? They’re getting paid less because they attract a lot less money.

Ca$$$h wrote:

Man, that's a lot of cash. Lagat earning as much as Wanjiru is wrong man.

Shalane and Desi are way to overrated.

NYC is an AMERICAN marathon and going to viewed by a lot of AMERICANS. The hype over the event has gone WAY up considering there's 2 americans as WMM defending champs, one being the defending NYC Champ. You should know these marathons pay big time for the defending champ. Even Boston will probably slightly overpay to pay to have Yuki back but that's the name of the game.

In regards to Lagat, big time names always get paid quite a bit for their debuts. I mean 60k is a lot, but if he was a 5k/10k guy and won a global medal last year or in 2016 his appearance fee would likely be 100-120k because he has a shot at something big. Even Lagat in the current shape wouldn't even show up for 20k. The only pull they have is that Lagat would want to run anyway because he wants a shot at the 2020 Olympics in the marathon.