The Tour de France will arrive in Paris on Sunday and prepares a new coronation for Jonas Vingegaard, already winner last year. If he crosses the last two stages without incident while maintaining his lead over his pursuers, the Dane will pocket a hoard of 500,000 euros, or a fifth of the overall prize money for the 110th edition. Tadej Pogacar will receive €200,000 with second place. The third rider to complete on the podium will collect €100,000. By way of comparison, this is a little more than the reward awarded to a Roland-Garros player who passes the first round (€97,000). All runners who arrive at the Champs-Élysées will receive something (€3,800 for 10th and €1,000 for all those finishing from 20th to last place).
Jonas Vingegaard (who collects €500 a day in yellow) will not keep this tidy sum for himself alone. On the Tour de France, it is customary for all the bonuses earned by the whole formation to be pooled and subsequently distributed to the riders but also to the members of the management.
Like last year when it won nearly 800,000 euros in earnings, the Jumbo-Visma team will once again be the one that will best fill its bank account. 11,000 € are for example promised to each stage winner, the amounts are decreasing, up to 300 € for the 20th. We understand then why the runners fight to get a place among the first twenty of the classification in a massive sprint.
The runner who brings back the jersey of the best climber (bonus of €300 euros to the wearer each day) will receive €25,000, that of the green jersey too (bonus of €300 to the wearer each day). The sprints and passages at the summits of the passes also make it possible to round off the end of the month. Turning in the lead in a non-category climb brings in 800 € against 200 € for a 4th category climb.
Regarding the sprints, less numerous, 1500 € are awarded for each passage in the lead, 1000 € for the second and 500 € for the third. Finally, Tadej Pogacar should also console himself with the final gain attributed to the white jersey (€20,000). The athlete rewarded with the super combative prize on the Grande Boucle will collect €20,000.
If parity has been adopted in some sports, cycling is still very far from approaching it. Last year, €250,000 in bonuses were distributed on the women’s Tour de France with a check for €50,000 promised to the winner, €25,000 for the second and €10,000 for the third. The difference is also abysmal for the polka dot and green jerseys (€3,000 for the winner) but less significant for stage victories (€4,000 for each winner against €11,000 for the men).
