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How much prize money did Jonas Vingegaard get for winning the 2023 Tour de France?

There was around €2.5 million up for grabs in the 2023 race, with Jonas Vingegaard the largest earner

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The Tour de France 2023 finished on Sunday July 23 with Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) as the champion , after the Dane completed the 21 stages faster than every other rider.

Vingegaard's victory ensures he earned €500,000 (£433,000) for winning the Tour - that's around 20 per cent of the €2,500,000 (£2.2 million) prize purse. Vingegaard earned the same prize money last year, as did Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) in 2020 and 2021. 

However, Vingegaard's earnings actually reached €535,220 (£463,100) when factoring in his exploits over the course of the 21 stages. 

Stage wins are worth €11,000 (£9,518), with prize money offered to riders who finish in the top 20 on each day. Vingegaard won one stage and finished in the top 20 on a further 12 occasions, seeing him net bonus money as a result.

The 26-year-old also pocketed an extra €500 for the 16 days he spent leading the GC, in addition to the half a million euros available at the end of the Tour. 

Naturally, minor classifications also have money on offer. Intermediate sprints are worth €1,500 for the first rider across the line, while the green jersey winner - the rider with the most sprint points at the end of the race - secures €25,000. Jasper Philipsen's (Alpecin-Decueninck) four stage wins, one intermediate sprint victory, 18 days in the green jersey (€300 a day) and points classification victory, therefore, saw him earn €70,500 (£61,000).

As with the points classification, the mountains  winner receives €25,000, with €200-€800 available on categorised climbs throughout the duration of the 21 stages. The harder the climb, the more money is available for each rider who passes the summit first. This year's KOM was Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek).

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Tadej Pogačar does win a classification prize - €20,000 for finishing as the best placed rider under the age of 25. Nice, but it probably doesn't make up for missing out on the overall win.

Another rider taking home a cheeky bonus is Victor Campenaerts who was awarded the overall combativity award, providing him with an extra €24,000 - €20,000 for the overall prize and €4,000 for the two stages he was awarded the honour. 

Meanwhile, Felix Gall won €11,000 for his win on stage 17, but the Austrian AG2R Citroën rider also earned himself a cool €5,000 bonus for summiting the Col de la Loze first. The Col de la Loze represented the highest point in this year's Tour de France, with the Souvenir Henri Desgrange prize awarded to the rider who summits the point first. 

Jumbo Visma, the winners of the team classification, netted €50,000, calculated by the cumulative time of each team's three fastest finishers. The same rule is applied on each stage, with €2,800 prize money awarded to the fastest team each day, too. 

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Tour de France 2023 prize money: How much does the yellow jersey win?

Jonas vingegaard will collect his second yellow jersey in paris and a big winners’ cheque for topping the general classification, article bookmarked.

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The 2023 Tour de France is coming to an end, as Jonas Vingegaard prepares to celebrate winning his second yellow jersey in Paris.

Vingegaard beat his closest rival Tadej Pogacar on the stage 16 time trial before crushing the Slovenian on the following day, the queen stage of this year’s Tour which finished in Courchevel. That effectively secured the Dane his triumph and he stands to collect another small fortune when he stands on top of the podium on Sunday.

Riders secure bonuses from their teams for their exploits on the bike during the Tour, but there is plenty of prize money on offer from race organisers ASO too.

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Tour de France prize money

The total prize pot of the 2023 Tour de France is €2.5m and the overall winner of the general classification receives 20% of that figure, taking home €500,000.

Every other finisher up to 160th place receives €1,000 in Paris.

Individual stage prize money

Winning a stage of the Tour nets €11,000.

Green & polka dot jersey prize money

The winner of the points classification for the best sprinter takes home €25,000, as does the King of the Mountains.

Polka dot jersey prize money

The best young rider at the end of the Tour (aged 25 and under) takes away €20,000.

There are other prizes to be won throughout the Tour de France. The daily combativity award comes with a €2,000 purse, and the overall combativity award earns the winner €20,000.

There is €800 for the first rider over the top of each hors categorie climb , €600 for category one , €400 for category two , €300 for category three and €200 for category four ascents.

The leader of each classification receives €300 per day, except for the general classification who receives €500.

The winner of the Souvenir Henri Desgrange – the first rider over the top of the highest point of the race – earns €5,000. This year that was Austria’s Felix Gall, who also went on to win the stage, collecting a healthy pay day.

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How much money does the winner of the Tour de France receive?

A breakdown of the 2021 prize pot.

The Tour de France is the biggest event in cycling, and the prize money for the event is equally large. For the 2021 Tour, the 108th edition of the race, a total of €2,228,450 (about 3,281,889 CAD) will be awarded in prize money to the cyclists, but the pot won’t be going entirely to the general classification winner.

Classifications

This year’s Tour starts on Saturday, Jun. 26 and runs until Sunday, Jul. 18. After each of the 21 stages, jerseys are awarded to racers based on four categories . The yellow jersey to the current race leader (based on total lowest time), the polka dot jersey to the king of the mountains (the rider with the most cumulative points from categorized climbs), the white jersey for the best young rider (based on total lowest time) and the green sprinter’s jersey (the most points awarded at intermediate sprints and finishes.)

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The €2,228,450 prize money (€64,550 less than last year’s €2,293,000 prize), is divided between the winners and runners-up of the different classificaitons. There are prizes for stage winners, current leaders, the overall winners and a few special primes.

Splitting it up

General classification.

At the end of the 21 stages, the winner of the Tour de France—the cyclist that finishes first in the final individual general classification (yellow jersey)—will get €500,000. The top 20 in the GC will also receive some prize money, ranging from €200,000 for second place to €1,100 for 19th. Riders who finish 20th to 160th will all be awarded €1,000 for their effort.

Throughout the race, holding on to the yellow jersey will get a rider €500 per day. The rider first across the line of each stage also gets €11,000. There are daily rewards for cyclists to finish in the top 20 of a stage, though the 15th to 20th riders will only get a payout of €300.

Mountains classification

The King of the Mountains will receive €25,000 in addition to the bonuses he will get from winning (or finishing top three) on climbs throughout the race. “Hors catégorie” mountains or summit finishes have the highest payout (€800) but even fourth category passes or climbs have a €200 prize for the first to crest the summit. The polka dot jersey also comes with a daily €300 prize for its bearer.

Points classification

The final points classification winner will receive €25,000, and the top eight runner-up sprinters will also get some prize money. The cyclist with the green jersey receives €300 per day and prizes of  €1,500, €1,000 and €500 are awarded to the first three sprinters across each of the 19 intermediate sprint lines.

Young rider classification

The best young rider (born after 1995) of each stage will be awarded €500, and the young rider who is currently doing the best in the general classification will receive €300. In the end, the winner of the young rider classification will walk away with €20,000.

Other classificaitons

The winner of the teams classification on each stage will receive €2,800 and the top five teams will get a prize at the end of the event (€50,000 to first place.) The most aggressive rider of each stage, chosen by a jury, will get €2,000. At the end of the Tour, the overall most aggressive (“super combatif”) rider is given €20,000.

There are a few additional prizes up for grabs as well. The €5,000 Souvenir Henri Desgrange prime is for the first rider to the top of the port d’Envalira on the 15th stage. The first rider to the top of the col du Tourmalet on the 18th stage will also get €5,000.

Prize money distribution

It sounds like there’s a decent amount of money going around, but, to be fair to hardworking teammates, prize money is normally pooled and distributed to the rider’s team members. Riders traditionally give some money to the staff as well.

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2023 Tour de France: Prize Money, Prestige & Paris

There’s $2.5 million in Tour de France prize money up for grabs as the world’s best male cyclists are pedaling in the most prestigious and challenging bicycle race on the planet.

The 110th edition of the  Tour de France is fast approaching — starting in Basque Country, and cruising through cities and countryside towards an impressive payday and all the prestige that awaits in Paris.

This year’s race features 176 riders on 22 teams from across the globe, battling it out through 21 stages in a race that begins in Bilbao, Spain, the first-ever stage in the city, and cycling towards the finish line at the Champs-Élysées.

It’s a 2,115-mile ride that takes place over the course of three weeks (July 1-23), and it’s all about that yellow jersey.

But as it turns out, there are many more ways to make money throughout the three-week competition. Let’s take a look at what winning looks like at La Grande Boucle.

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2023 Tour de France Prize Money

The big winner — you know, the one making that iconic ride through the streets of Paris — will cruise away with roughly  $545,257 in Tour de France prize money.

The second-place rider earns around  $219,130 , the third-place rider brings home about  $109,565 , while the fourth-place finisher takes around $76,695 . Cyclists who finish well outside of the top tier can make about $1,100 .

And that’s just payouts in the general classification category.

In addition to overall placement at the end of the race, there’s also money to be made for riders who earn various colored jerseys and lead in categories related to points, performance in the mountains, and straight-up grit.

For example, riders who win an individual stage earn about $12,052, while cyclists in the remaining positions in the top 20 also receive cash prizes.

Riders who wear the “King of the Mountains” jersey and win Best Climber at the end of the race can make $27,391 , while the cyclist dubbed “Most Aggressive Rider” at the end of each day can make around $2,191 per stage.

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Prize Money Tour de France 2023 - Full guide to how €2.308.029 will be split between teams

Prize Money . The 2023 Tour de France will take place from the 1st to 23rd of July 2023 and will be the 110th edition of the Grand Boucle. A race starting the Basque Country in Spain, it will see another set of masterful performances and show across the three weeks in what many term as the climax of the cycling season!

A grand total of €2.308.029 euros will be distributed between the teams present in the race, who will be racing for not only very prestigious glory on the road, but also for a very important financial benefit from the race that provides the most sponsor exposure all year long. You may be thinking how will the money distribution be organized - look no further, below you can look at the full guide of the Tour de France 2023 prize money.

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The GC classification winner will be receiving 500.000, whilst the rest of the podium gets 200.000 and 100.000 respectively. Points, KOM and Youth classification winners win €25.000, whilst the victor of the team's classification wins €50.000. Everyday the stage winner takes home an extra €11.000. You can find the exact details, as well as several other classifications and special awards, in the following list.

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Jonas Vingegaard wins the 2023 Tour de France

Meeus takes final stage in a photo finish with Philipsen

Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) sailed through the final stage of the 2023 Tour de France to be crowned overall champion for the second year in a row.

Pogačar added to his reputation as the ' people's champion ', attacking multiple times in the final 40 kilometres but the sprinters teams shut down the cheeky moves. As the rain started to fall on the Champs Elyseés, the race judges decided to take the general classification times with one lap to go.

After a heated and seemingly even battle with Pogačar, Vingegaard put his mark on this edition of the Tour with his dominant performance on stage 16 time trial then twisted the knife on the Col de la Loze .

He tops the final podium by 7:29 ahead of Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) in a duel that will go down in the history books. Pogačar’s teammate Yates finished third overall at 10:56 back.

“It's a feeling of being proud and happy - we're winning it for the second time now. It's really amazing. Today with all the Danish people here was really amazing. I have to say thanks not only to my team and family but to the whole of Denmark. They support me and I'm really grateful for this.”

“It's been a long journey but it also went by so fast. We race every day and one day takes the other. It's been a super hard race and a super good fight between me and Tadej. I enjoyed it all the way.”

Jordi Meeus (Bora-Hansgrohe) sprinted to victory on the Champs-Elysées, beating Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco-AlUla) to the line on stage 21 to take his first stage victory of the Tour de France.

Alpecin-Deceuninck may have led the way around the final corner, but Meeus was well positioned, surfing wheels. The neophyte Tour rider, edged out the green jersey at the line by less than a wheel length to win after a chaotic sprint.

“I knew in the previous sprints that there was more possible than the result I showed so far. Today everything went perfect and I'm super happy to finish it off,” said Meeus who finished top ten in three of the previous sprint stages this year.

“I felt quite good all day. The beginning was easy obviously but from the moment we went full gas my legs felt incredibly good. Then Marco Haller did a perfect job with positioning and he was also there. I had the wheel of Pedersen and I could come out of the slipstream and catch it on the line.”

“It's my first Tour and it was a super nice experience so far. To take the win today is just an indescribable feeling.”

For the third year in a row, Pogačar swept up the white jersey, with Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers) finishing as runner-up in the young rider's classification.

Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) claimed the polka-dot jersey beating Felix Gall (AG2R Citroen) by 14 points to the climber's award.

Philipsen had nonetheless secured the green jersey before the final stage, beating Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) by 119 points at the top of the points standings. Finally, Jumbo-Visma won the team competition ahead of UAE Team Emirates, and Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) claimed the super-combativity award after an aggressive three weeks of racing.

How it unfolded

In what is effectively a two-wheeled photo shoot on the 115.1-kilometre stage starting from the velodrome in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, a nod to the upcoming 2024 Olympic Games, to the usual finish on the Champs-Élysées, team after team took their turn on the front of the slowly pedalling bunch for the cameras.

Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) jumped off the front at the flag drop to celebrate being awarded the super-combativity trophy. He quickly sat up with a smile and rejoined the peloton.

The opening 60.6 kilometres saw the peloton pass in front of the Château de Versailles before heading to Paris via Meudon and Issy-les-Moulineaux, tackling the final climb of the race, the fourth-category Côte du Pavé des Gardes, after 42.8 kilometres.

Celebrating his polka-dot jersey, Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) received a slow lead out from his Lidl-Trek teammates to take to the lone KOM point of the day.

After that – the final 54.5 kilometres of the stage once the riders pass through the finish line for the first time – the racing began in Paris, with eight laps of the finishing circuits left to decide the winner of stage 21.

The Jumbo-Visma team rode on the front gradually amping the pace as the peloton made its way to the final circuits.

The first two laps of the Champs-Élysées circuit saw a flurry of attacks from the peloton. First up the road was Pascal Eenkhoorn then his Lotto Dstny teammate Frederik Frison as each took their chance to escape.

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) attacked multiple times in the final 40 kilometres. The first time, he was joined by Nathan Van Hooydonck (Jumbo-Visma) who sat on his wheel, refusing to work. More riders tried to jump across to the Slovenian's wheel but the lack of cooperation doomed the moves.

Simon Clarke (Israel-Premier Tech) launched the next big move, at 30 kilometers to go. He was soon joined by Nelson Oliveira (Movistar) and Frison. Working well together, the trio pushed their gap up to 18 seconds before being reeled in 20 kilometres later.

No organisation at the front of the peloton led to more short-lived attacks in the final lap, with speeds hitting 64 km per hour. The Jumbo-Visma team sat up to celebrate their overall victory with three kilometres to go, leaving the sprinters' teams to fight out the stage victory.

A mixture of teams – including Alpecin-Deceuninck, Lidl-Trek, Jayco-AlUla and Intermarché-Circus-Wanty – were up front heading into the final two kilometres, with no one team able to wrest control and establish a full lead out at the front.

Not done with racing, Pogačar led the final sprint onto the Champs Elysées. He was overtaken by Mathieu van der Poel leading out Philipsen. Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco-AlUla) went early and hit the front, forcing Philipsen to go along the barriers.

Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), meanwhile, went down the middle but Meeus was on his wheel and came late with a perfect bike throw to the line. He rode it perfectly, with a bike throw, while Philipsen was forced to come late and from behind.

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2024 Wells Fargo Championship purse, prize money: Payout for winner Rory McIlroy, field from $20 million pool

Plenty of green was on the line this week at the green mile, and mcilroy brought home the biggest chunk.

Rory McIlroy continued his smoking play entering the second major of the season pulling off a dominant performance Sunday at Quail Hollow to win the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship. It McIlroy's second victory in as many starts after teaming with Shane Lowry to win the 2024 Zurich Classic a couple weeks ago, and Sunday's win comes at an opportune time as Rory seeks to end his extended drought at major championships.

Big stakes and big money this week with 69 players visiting Charlotte for four days of pristine golf. While the trophy may not have been one of the four big ones -- one of those will be handed out next week when Valhalla hosts the 2024 PGA Championship -- the purse was in the same ballpark. A total of $20 million was be up for grabs this week falling in line with the total from the Masters last month and other signature events like the Arnold Palmer Invitational and Genesis Invitational.

Unlike the those two tournaments, however, "only" $3,600,000 was earned by McIlroy for winning. This represents the third-highest payday a winner could receive so far in 2024 as the top prize gets boosted to a nice, round $4 million for the three player invitationals while the Players Championship awarded Scottie Scheffler $4.5 million for his victory.

Wyndham Clark entered as the reigning champion but was unable to defend his crown. That said, he remains atop of McIlroy in the FedEx Cup standings as Rory shot up to fourth by winning his 26th career PGA Tour event.

No one who fell short of winning will leave empty-handed. Every golfer in the no-cut field earned at least $40,000 this week. Meanwhile, the top three all cleared seven figures, the top 11 were set to receive at least half a million, and the top 36 were all looking at six figures for their four days of work in the Queen City.

2024 Wells Fargo Championship prize money, purse

Total purse: $20 million

1st: $3,600,000 -- Rory McIlroy 2nd: $2,160,000 -- Xander Schauffele 3rd: $1,360,000 -- Byeong Hun An 4th: $960,000 -- Jason Day, Sungjae Im 5th: $800,000 6th: $720,000 -- Mackenzie Hughes, Denny McCarthy 7th: $670,000 8th: $620,000 -- Max Homa, Sepp Straka 9th: $580,000 10th: $540,000 -- Russell Henley, Grayson Murray, Taylor Pendrith 11th: $500,000 12th: $460,000 13th: $420,000 -- Corey Conners, Tommy Fleetwood, Sam Burns 14th: $380,000 15th: $360,000 16th: $340,000 -- Lucas Glover, Si Woo Kim, Seamus Power, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Collin Morikawa 17th: $320,000 18th: $300,000 19th: $280,000 20th: $260,000 21st: $240,000 -- Justin Thomas, Keegan Bradley, Stephan Jaeger 22nd: $224,000 23rd: $208,000 24th: $192,000 -- Viktor Hovland, Webb Simpson, Nick Dunlap, Alex Noren, Lee Hodges 25th: $176,000 26th: $160,000 27th: $154,000 28th: $148,000 29th: $142,000 -- Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Adam Scott, Patrick Rodgers, Andrew Putnam 30th: $136,000 31st: $130,000 32nd: $124,000 33rd: $118,000 34th: $113,000 -- Matt Kuchar, Harris English, Kurt Kitayama, Cameron Young 35th: $108,000 36th: $103,000 37th: $98,000 38th: $94,000 -- Gary Woodland, Tom Hoge, Tylor Moore, Cam Davis 39th: $90,000 40th: $86,000 41st: $82,000 42nd: $78,000 -- Akshay Bhatia 43rd: $74,000 -- Chris Kirk, Rickie Fowler, Kevin Tway, Nick Taylor 44th: $70,000 45th: $66,000 46th: $62,000 47th: $58,000 -- Brian Harman, Shane Lowry, Wyndham Clark, Tom Kim, Adam Svensson 48th: $54,800 49th: $52,000 50th: $50,400 51st: $49,200 52nd: $48,000 -- Matt Fitzpatrick, Justin Rose, Adam Hadwin, Sahith Theegala, Billy Horschel, Tony Finau 53rd: $47,200 54th: $46,400 55th: $46,000 56th: $45,600 57th: $45,200 58th: $44,800 -- Jake Knapp, Ben Kohles 59th: $44,400 60th: $44,000 -- J.T. Poston, Brendon Todd, Will Zalatoris 61st: $43,600 62nd: $43,200 63rd: $42,800 -- Austin Eckroat 64th: $42,400 -- Emiliano Grillo, Adam Schenk 65th: $42,000 66th: $41,600 -- Peter Malntai 67th: $41,200 -- Matthieu Pavon 68th: $40,800 -- Eric Cole 69th: $40,400 WD: Hideki Matsuyama

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New york-based devo team to feed worldtour squad with future stars: 'if you have the desire to win the tour de france, you need to identify and nurture talent, and build a team around it.'.

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EF Education-EasyPost is partnering U.S. Conti team Aevolo Cycling in its search for future Tour de France champions.

The WorldTour squad of Neilson Powless , Richard Carapaz, and Alberto Bettiol will share resources and a service course with New York-based Aevolo in what will be a two-way beneficial collaboration that starts in 2025.

Alveolo will get insight and expertise, and EF Education-EasyPost CEO Jonathan Vaughters hopes his senior team will get a steady stream of home-grown winners.

“This is our first foray into having our own in-house, proprietary, Continental team, and Aevolo is the obvious team to do this with,” Vaughters said Thursday.

“It’s a sister team in the sense that they’ve been with Cannondale for quite a while and obviously the team has done a great job. But to make that next jump in performance, they needed to have a more international program and to have a foundation with a WorldTour team.”

Ex-pro Mike Creed will retain his long-time role as manager and director of Aevolo in 2025.

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The move will see EF Education-EasyPost joining the mass of WorldTour teams that has its own development program.

Rather than building the squad in-house like Visma-Lease a Bike, Groupama-FDJ, or many others, EF Education-EasyPost is following the path taken by Jayco-AlUla in collaborating with an existing team.

Jayco-AlUla last year linked up with Axel Merckx’s Hagens Berman project for its own U23 program.

“By joining forces, we’re combining resources so that we can build what will hopefully be one of the best, if not the best, continental team in the world and be the most attractive place to go for up-and-coming talent,” Vaughters said in a team statement.

“We’re going to build a true-first class organization that supports the rider in the same way that both our men’s and women’s EF Pro Cycling teams are supported.”

In-house talent pipeline

The average age of the WorldTour has plummeted in recent decades.

Riders like Tadej Pogačar, Juan Ayuso, and Remco Evenepoel are winning big, and doing it earlier than riders ever did before.

Vaughters believes Aevolo and the recently formed EF Education-ONTO junior team will take some of the guesswork out of identifying the next teen mega-talent.

“For a team like us that doesn’t have the biggest budget in the WorldTour, you realize that if you truly have the desire to someday win the Tour de France, the way to do that is to identify the talent, nurture the talent, even build a team around the talent and retain the talent. And then do that for a period of 10 or 15 years and build a Tour de France winner,” Vaughters said.

“That’s why we want to create the best development program in the world and be the most attractive development program in the world,” he said.

Aevolo currently counts nine U.S. riders on its roster, including Tour of the Gila top-10 finisher Ian López and newly crowned national U23 critérium champ Gavin Hlady.

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