what did the 2016 boston marathon winners get
Outkicked: Whatâs a Boston Marathon Win Worth? Here, Iâll try to figure out how much money theyâre making. As best I can tell, there are four ways for top Americans to cash in on a major marathon win. The first and most obvious is prize money: Boston pays $150,000 to winners, New York $130,000, Chicago $100,000, and London $55,000.Thereâs a nearly $100,000-range between London and Boston, and that reflects the second piece of the marathon cash pie: time, course-record, and repeat performance bonuses.hatâs three. The fourth way for a marathon runner like Flanagan to capitalize on a win at Boston is looking outside the traditional shoe company model. After Meb Keflezighi won New York in 2009, his brother and agent Merhawi Keflezighi told me, he increased his sponsors from two to ten.