Diamond League earnings: Full table, breakdown and analysis

I know that remuneration is structured differently between sports but this shows how miniscule distance running is.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the best miler across the season, and the world champion Jake Wightman made just over $100k USD in prize money between them.

In comparison the winner of this year's Dallas open got $107,770USD, and if you win one match in the US Open you get $121k

Its wild. Fellow norwegian, Casper Ruuds prize money this year is $4,669,197.

Erling Haaland earns $34 million a year at Man City. That's just his basic salary, doesn't include bonuses, sponsorship deals etc.

Yet at the same time, Kipsang earning $32,000 is the equivalent of a million dollar salary in Kenya, whereas $100K doesn't go very far for Jakob in Norway. And what can these Kenyan runners do other than run? They have almost literally zero other professional sports to realistically compete in and get anywhere near the top of. If Kenyans had any real genetic advantage in middle-distance running, the top 100+ times would be Kenyan.

Amazing how you can turn everything into Kenyan bashing.

But OP's post defeats your "logic" that Kenyan results started declining on the track because of drug testing. Nope. It started declining because most Kenyans are running road races all over the world. That's where the money is.

And you are wrong about Norway too. You can buy a really nice house there for well under $100,000. I know that because my brother bought one, while you just talk out of your ass.

You DID acknowledge that money i allocated differently but think of it this way:

Let's say that all of the fall major marathons were one race. Take all of the prize, bonus and appearance money and combine it into one prize structure- one for men and one for women.

By nature, every top athlete can't run every week against each other (for track events).

I wish we could see a break down of earnings going at least 50 deep counting- shoe contract money plus, prize, appearance and bonus money. Bonus money can come from the particular race and your own contract.

That is horrible. I hope that they don’t have to pay for their travel.

No wonder on TV the winners just smile, raise the flowers, then walk of the track in disgust. I'm sure back at the hotel they are all working on a UC Berkeley Extension "Blockchain" online certificate ;-)

Kenyans were running marathons all over the world 10 years ago. I know its a common excuse for Kenya fanboys regarding their track demise but no, its not because of that. Their times are not far off to what they were 10 years ago. Just that others have caught up or surpassed them.

They don't have as many opportunities to excel in sport than Eurpeans or North Americans have, yes, that's correct. And this is one of the many reasons for their success in running. Looking at the road running statistics it's obvious that the genes are also on their side.

No problem. T&F is for dedicated people who love the sport. No one does T&F for money. It's a luxury in the US and backward places like Europe and Africa where the wealthy live in closed gated compounds with armed guards keeping out commoners.

It realy does put a fine point on it. Its all about eyes. One boxing match-50 mill. One golf match 2-25mill. Did they even give duplantis a bonus for WR?

Prize money represents very little of track and field athletes nowadays. Apparence fees, sponsorships, brand deals represent way more.
For exemple, El Guerrouj used to be paid around 100000 dollars just from apparence fees for each race.

Jakob is said to be earning more than $4,000,000 a year.

That kind of system is not uncommon in professional sport. Even in soccer, the biggest sport in the world, prize money is peanuts compared to what they make thanks to their club and brand deals. Kylian Mbappé, a really famous french football player, will only earn around $400,000 if he wins the world cup this year. Compared to his estimated revenues of $125,000,000 a year that’s literally nothing.

I knew a Nike guy who barely broke 14:00 (was an 8:29 steepler) who got $2000.00 appearance fees and never paid for travel or expenses.

That's part of the different ways runners make money. Golf/Tennis pay expenses but make a lot more money.

Supposedly Isenbayeva the Russian pole vaulter got 50K for every world record. She set like 21.

I know a 13:20 5K guy who has time and place bonuses in his contract. That's separate from what races offer.

Granted, you'd have to race a lot but there is money to be had.

On another note in a very controversial Runners World interview after the 76 Olympics Guy Drut talked about money and said Viren got a 50K appearance fee.

Ingrabritsen made a lot more than 100K last year and likely had 0 expenses.

One thing I will acknowlege- my thinking is in terms of distance runners with road racing opportunities.

Any American distance runner should be taking advantage of the $ on the road race circuit.

A lot of 13:20 guys don't even have contracts these days, and bonuses have gotten smaller in the past decade. Even IAAF world record bonus a decade ago was bigger than it is today as world athletics. Inflation has gone way up, but pay has gone down in athletics. Decades of income improvements for athletics has been undone the past several years, the peak was around 2011 give or take a couple years. That seems to be when prize money was at its max or stopped growing.

I agree with you. Money has dropped- contracts, prize, appearance, bonus.

The sport is too disjointed. There's WA and each national federation but most of the meets and races are basically on their own.

So what??? When Kenyans excel, you say they're doping. When they don't , you say they're declining!

What do you really want with Kenyans?

Another angle to look at it is this way_ in sports, it's even more better when others excel. That prompts you to work hard.

In sports, records are there to be set and broken; champions are there to win and lose! Definitely you can't be winning from January to December!!!

Last but not least, the last time I checked_ athletes from the so called "developed countries" have much far ahead training facilities and great medical attention when it comes to the sport. They should be the ones winning everything if we're to go by your moronic sentiments!!!