Abdi Nageeye Net Worth, Professional Runner Earnings At New York Marathon 2022

Abdi Nageeye’s net worth is estimated to be around USD 3 million as of 2022. Most of his earnings have been accumulated from finishing above top-10 in the races.

Nageeye average earnings from the race were around USD 18,333 last year from the 2018 Boston Marathon, as per Letsrun.com. The same year, he also set the national record to finish 9th in the Amsterdam race.

The Dutch runner has signed a mega deal with Nike. The Ziprecruiter says the NIKE Athlete salaries currently range between $27,500 (25th percentile) to $47,500 (75th percentile), while the top earners are making around USD 60,000 a year.

According to Indeed, the average wage for a Runner is $14.59 per hour in the United States. At the same time, even the runners with no significant sponsors can make around USD 5000 to USD 6000 per year.

Abdi Nageeye earned USD 10,000 as the winner of the New York Marathon 2022. 

This year’s New York City Marathon winners will get a sizable reward fund. This year’s Marathon had a total guaranteed prize pool of USD 870,000. 

The winners of the women’s and men’s races, Sharon Lokedi and Evans Chebet, received $100,000. The wheelchair champions, Marcel Hug and Susannah Scaroni, will each win $25,000.

In both the men’s and women’s races, the top American finishers each won $25,000. In addition, $5,000 will be granted to the top nonbinary finisher.

The wheelchair champions acquired the additional time bonuses offered to runners who break course records. Hug and Scaroni each received $50,000 for breaking the course record. Additionally, there is a $50,000 incentive for male or female runners who break the course records. However, Chebet and Loki failed to do so because of the abnormally warm weather they were running in.

Similarly, in 2018, while competing in the Boston Marathon, Nageeye earned around $10,500, finishing in the 7th position.

Abdi Nageeye’s professional career is going in the right way. So, this is undoubtedly a factor in his rising net worth and earnings.

At the 2016 Boston Marathon, he finished eighth. The same year, he was placed eleventh in the Rio Olympic marathon. He participated in the men’s category Marathon at the 2018 European Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany. Although, he failed to complete the race.

His best campaign to date was the one in 2019. In February, he easily won in Marugame, Japan, by clocking a Dutch half-marathon record time of 60:24. Then, in the Rotterdam Marathon, he significantly improved by cutting almost two minutes off his previous NR and placing fourth in 2:06:17.

In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Dutch star won a silver medal, completing in a season’s best time of 2:09:58. Similarly, in 2018’s Boston Marathon, he finished 7th. Similarly, this April, he spent the Rotterdam Marathon at 2:04:56 to claim his first marathon victory.

Nageeye’s personal best in the Half marathon is 1:00:24, and Marathon is 2:04:56. He is 33 years old, and still, many races are waiting for him. He was born on March 2, 1989, in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Abdi was relocated to the Netherlands as a refugee when he was 6. He spent four years in the Netherlands before relocating to Syria and Somalia with his family. Nageeye then traveled from Ethiopia to the Netherlands, where a family adopted him in Oldebroek. 

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