Anyone know how much the prize money was for the professional events at Millrose tonight? I saw where the sprint team won $1000 per person for the team sprint victory, but couldn't find any other info on prize money for the mile, 400, 600, etc. Just wondering what an event like th pays.
I heard from someone that heard that there was $5,000 for first in the Millrose 2 mile and that the winner also got $1,200 in appearance fee. I should probably try to figure out if this is true but that's what i heard.
You think for that type of cash, you could get every 5 africans who could go sub 8:48. Of course, the 2nd place guy probably got way way less. But you think you could get at least one.
lol a $1200 appearance fee for stephen haas to run what is a very good time, for a high schooler.
if i saw these results and did not know otherwise, i would think it was a high school race.
2 mile
1st-8:48
2nd-8:57
3rd-9:05
4th-9:11
i kind of think the $1200 appearance fee and $5000 to win a high school caliber race, may have been to lure to get rupp to show up for a glorified appearance.
i also wonder if good runners were excluded from the race, so they would not interfere with the hyping of webb, by maybe beating rupp.
this is if rupp had showed up as expected.
rupp has some real competition on february 11th in dusseldorf.