The Tour de France and the Tour de France Femmes are the 2 largest races of the 12 months for biking followers and racers alike.
To emerge victorious and take house probably the most iconic jersey, the yellow one, within the sport, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Crew Emirates) and Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) needed to out-ride and out-smart their rivals for 3,498km and 948km, respectively.
Each Excursions de France sport the season’s best fields, most prestigious and in addition, the most important prize purse. Nevertheless, there’s a massive distinction in what Pogačar took house as compared with Niewiadoma.
Now in its second 12 months, the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift has €250,000 (£213,000/$277,000) of prize cash in complete, with the general winner taking house €50,000, second taking €25,000 and third place incomes €10,000. This prize pool makes the Tour de France Femmes the highest-paying race on the Ladies’s WorldTour calendar. And whereas it is a vital step ahead for ladies’s racing, it nonetheless pales compared to the lads’s Tour.
The boys’s Tour de France has €2.4 million of prize cash in complete, of which Pogačar took house the €500,000 (£423,000/$554,000) grand prize – double your complete prize pool of the Tour de France Femmes.
Or, to place it in Euros per kilometre raced, the 2023 males’s Tour winner was paid €142.94 per km whereas the ladies’s winner earned €52.7 per km.
On the finish of the Tour, his stage placings and days in yellow additionally rewarded, Pogačar gained a complete of €650,000. As the general Tour de France Femmes winner, Niewiadoma earned lower than a tenth of that.
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Niewiadoma didn’t win any levels alongside the best way, so didn’t bump up her take-home win bonus anymore that approach, however did gather further from ending within the top-20 on levels 4, 5, six, seven and eight, in addition to inserting excessive up within the different classifications.
Classifications and Stage Earnings:
– Within the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, a person stage win paid out €4,000 versus €11,000 within the males’s Tour.
– The factors classification was gained by Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) within the males’s race and Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) within the ladies’s Tour. Girmay took house €25,000 and a further €300 on daily basis he wore the inexperienced jersey. Vos, as compared, took house €3,000 and a further €100 for each stage she topped the factors classification.
– For the mountains and greatest younger rider classifications, the lads’s winners earned €25,000 and €20,000, respectively – that is Richard Carapaz (EF Training-EasyPost) and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Fast-Step). In addition to a further €300 for on daily basis they wore the respective jerseys. The ladies’s QOM and greatest younger riders earned €3,000 and a further €100 for each stage they put on the jersey – Justine Ghekiere (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal) and Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck), respectively. This implies the three jersey winners within the males’s race earned over eight instances the sum of money that the jersey winners of the ladies’s Tour earned.
– Additional earnings go to the group with one of the best performances. The group’s classification is calculated by a group’s three highest-placed riders and was gained by UAE Crew Emirates within the males’s Tour, netting the group €50,000. Lidl-Trek earned €6,000, as compared, within the Femmes.
– Lastly, the rider awarded probably the most combative prize within the males’s Tour earned €20,000. This 12 months it was gained by Carapaz. Within the ladies’s Tour, Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime), who completed in second, acquired the honours, including a further €2,000 to her Tour winnings.
