Utah Marathon and Other Race Prize Money

[Ted Leblow]

I have seen a few posts mentioning Utah Marathon Race Prize Money so I thought I would start a thread that lists prize money in Utah. I will start with Marathon Prize Money and let others add other races with advertised or unadvertised prize money.

Marathons in order of biggest total prize purse:

1 - Des News Marathon and 10K - Total Prize Purse with Marathon and 10k = $14,800.00 (7K marathon & 7.8K for 10K)
1500/750/500 Men & Women top 3
500 1st Utah Men & Women
250 1st Master Men & Women
(10K pays the same but goes 3 deep in top Utah runners)

2 - Salt Lake City Marathon - Total Prize Purse = $12,900
2500/1500/500/250/100 Men & Women
500/100/50 Masters Men & Women
500 Wheel Chair Men & Women
500 Hand Cart Men & Women

3 - Top of Utah Marathon - Total Prize Purse = $9,100
1500/1000/750/500/250 Men & Women
250 Master Men & Women
250 Wheel Chair Men & Women
50 Hand Cart Men & Women

4 - Ogden Marathon - Total Prize Purse = $4,850
1100/550/275 Men & Women
275/150/75 Master Men & Women

5 - Utah Valley Marathon - Total Prize Purse = $3,500
1000/500/250 Men & Women

So there you have it. So let's hear about all of the other money races out there!

[Dave Holt]

Bryce Canyon 1/2 -
500/400/300/200/100: top 5 male and female
masters? I am not sure

[allie]

i could be wrong, but i thought the winner of des news gets $2000 + the year, so this year $2009.  

also, from what i can see, ogden does not mention any awards or prize purse on their website. was this from a previous year?

[Sasha Pachev]

Ogden is a little shy about the whole prize money deal. But that is what they gave last year. Plus Suunto t4. Which died after about 5 months of use for me (even without a footpod). But at least I got some HR measurements out of it, so that was better than nothing.

[Ted Leblow]

Des News has a two page color flier for 2009 and this is what they are advertising. I would attach it but I don't think I can on this site.

[Hyrum]

We will have one of the top paying  Utah marathons for 2010.  We will be paying the following:

Marathon Overall 1600/800/500/300/200 Men & Women

Marathon Masters 300/150/75 Men & Women

Half Marathon Overall 500/350/250/150/75 Men & Women

Total payout of: $10,500

The Utah Valley Marathon will have the 2nd highest 1st place marathon purse in the state (if Ted is right about Des News)!

We have also made a course change that should be on our website by early September, and we have added a half marathon.