The Tour de France 2024 begins subsequent Saturday, the 29 June, in Florence. With simply days till the most important race of the yr, it is time to try simply how a lot cash is on supply for many who do properly. Regardless of inflation, none of this has modified for this yr.
The general victor will earn €500,000 (£423,000) for profitable the Tour – that is round 20 per cent of the €2,301,200 (£1.95 million) prize purse. Vingegaard earned the identical prize cash final yr and the yr earlier than, as did Tadej Pogačar (UAE Crew Emirates) in 2020 and 2021.
Second place earns €200,000 (£169,000), with GC cash extending all the best way all the way down to €1,000 (£845) for Twentieth-One hundred and sixtieth general
Stage wins are price €11,000 (£9,518), with prize cash provided to riders who end within the high 20 on every day.
You additionally get cash for main the classifications every day, with €500 per stage given to the person in yellow, and €300 to the opposite distinctive riders.
Intermediate sprints every day are price €1,500 for the primary rider throughout the road, whereas second will get €1,000 and third €500.
The inexperienced jersey winner – the rider with essentially the most dash factors on the finish of the race – secures €25,000. Jasper Philipsen’s (Alpecin-Decueninck) 4 stage wins, one intermediate dash victory, 18 days within the inexperienced jersey (€300 a day) and factors classification victory, due to this fact, noticed him earn €70,500 (£61,000) final yr.
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As with the factors classification, the mountains winner receives €25,000, with €200-€800 out there on categorised climbs all through the period of the 21 levels. The tougher the climb, the more cash is out there for every rider who passes the summit first.
€20,000 additionally goes to the rider who finishes as the very best positioned rider beneath the age of 25, the individual within the white jersey.
The general combativity award presents an additional €20,000 for the general prize and €2,000 per day with the gold numbers.
Jumbo-Visma, the winners of the group classification final yr, netted €50,000, calculated by the cumulative time of every group’s three quickest finishers. The identical rule is utilized on every stage, with €2,800 prize cash awarded to the quickest group every day, too.
Historically, prize cash is shared round a group relatively than going to the only real winner, so domestiques would possibly find yourself profitable as a lot as their chief who wins general.
Tour de France prize cash: basic classification and stage outcome