The 2025 Sirikwa Classic Cross Country will offer record-breaking prize money, rewarding athletes up to 15th place.
The fourth edition of the Sirikwa Classic Cross Country organisers will be providing the highest prize money structure for athletes competing in the 2025 edition of the event scheduled for Saturday, February 22 at the Lobo Village in Eldoret.
Speaking during the official launch of the event, meet director Barnaba Korir announced that no other cross country has managed to reach the heights that they have when it comes to offering the prize money.
“The most important thing that I would love to speak about is not only the performance that matters but also the mouth-watering prize money,” Barnaba Korir said during the launch.
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“The winners will walk away with one of the highest prize money paid to our athletes in the cross-country series. Other cross countries always pay up to number eight but we decided to pay until the 15th-place finishers.
“The athletes get more benefit from that and the federation has also decided to give the youth something. They will be paid from number one to number 10.”
The organisers announced that the top 15 runners would be awarded with the winners walking away with $6000 (Ksh 780,000) with the under-20 athletes who win the race being awarded $1250 (Ksh 162,500).
The senior athletes who finish second and third respectively at the cross country will be awarded $5000 (Ksh 650,000) and $4000 (Ksh 520,000).
The athletes who finish fourth, fifth and sixth will be awarded $3000 (Ksh 390,000), $2500 (Ksh 325,000) and $2000 (Ksh260,000) respectively.
Those who cross the finish line in seventh, eighth and ninth place will receive $1500 (Ksh 195,000), $1000 (Ksh 130,000) and $800 (Ksh 104,000) with the 10th, 11th and 12th place finishers being given $600 (Ksh 78,000), and $400 (Ksh 52,000).
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The 13th, 14th and 15th-place finishers will walk away with $200 (Ksh 26,000) each. For the Under-20 athletes, those who finish second and third will pocket $1000 and $800 respectively while those who cross the finish line fourth and fifth will pocket $600 and $400.
The athletes who finish sixth will be awarded $300 while the rest up to 10th place will receive $200.
