By inscribing his name on the Tour de France prize list, Jonas Vingegaard will receive a nice jackpot of 500,000 euros.
Except that tradition dictates that the winner shares this sum with his entire team, and not just the riders who accompanied him during these three long weeks of competition.
Sports directors, mechanics, physiotherapists will therefore benefit from the coronation of the Dane who has accumulated other various bonuses this summer: 22,000 euros for his two stage victories and 5,000 euros for having worn the yellow jersey for ten days (€500 per day ).
To discover
The route of the Tour de France 2022
The general classification of the Tour de France
2,268,000 euros in prize money for the Tour de France
The Grande Boucle is, by far, the cycling event in the world that best rewards riders with an overall prize pool of 2,280,000 euros.
Since 2018, the winner of the Giro, the Tour of Italy, receives 265,668 euros, or just over half of the bonus granted to the winner of the Tour de France.
La Vuelta, the third most prestigious Tour in Spain, awards 150,000 euros to its winner.
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