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The Tour of France is the biggest bike race in the world and has come to an end once again with this year Taragatcha adding his fourth title to his Palmarees. But of course, it’s not just about the win, but also about the prize money attached to it for the team. The prize money, it’s gathered based on different things from stage to stage and the overall picture. From the stage itself, the riders can pick up intermediate sprint prizes, KM prizes as well, stage win, the placings in the stage win, wearing the jersey itself has a monetary prize to it as well. And then obviously all the classifications at the end, and even the super competitivity awards. So there is a lot of things that can go right. Equally, this year we’ve also seen there’s a lot of things that can go wrong with several teams and individuals within the teams also getting fines. We’ve seen fines for various different things such as the Inos Grande car hitting a fan. We also saw Brian Kar receiving a fine for his crash with Jasper Philipsson and also the Lenny Martinez sticky bottle received a big fine. But that aside, in today’s video, we’re going to look at the top 10 teams who have earned the most prize money. But before we go into them, we might as well look at the other end of the scale where there’s also some teams that didn’t do as well as before. Bottom of the table this year was Coffidus, Israel, Primate, and Lotto that received the lowest money. And notably a team that we associate with greatness in this race for a long time, Inos Grande did not actually feature in the top 10 either for the first time despite winning two stages and the Carlos Rodriguez abandonment probably cost them and as well Jacob Aula despite winning a stage and also taking the Henri de Granch prize was not in the top 10 for the prize money. Neither were Tataris and Aqua BNB who both had a rider in the top 10. Nevertheless, the first team on our list down from sixth place last year was Alpasin Dernik. The Dutch team took three victories with Yasper Philipsson who also went on to wear the yellow jersey and briefly the green jersey. Match of Vanipul who took the win and wore the yellow jersey in two stints and Kaden Groves who won an impressive stage 20 as well. And we even had Jonas Serikard also winning a competitivity award for the stage where him and Machuanopolo were up the road. And in total the team received €67,420. And when we look at the breakdown of this, most of it is attributed to Machuvanopolor who took 28,270 with Kaden Groves being second highest 18,10 and Yasper Philips despite being very briefly in the race €12,100 for him. And we can also see when you look at the type of money they won, most of it was attributed to stage results. those three victories and all the places that came close. Match of obviously being quite close to a few victories. Second team on the list and ninth overall down from third place last year is the Belgian team of Sudal Quickstep who had bad luck with Remco Veniple leaving the race early. However, they did manage to win a stage with him before then and the team did take two stages with Timlia and even winning the Momo two stage with Valentine Panipan and that equated in total to €7,160 in total. And when we look at the breakdown, we can see that it is Tim Miller who is their chief earner with €26,500. But DMCO Venopol despite leaving the race early coming in second with €7,020. Obviously, he also bought the white jersey for a number of days. So, that will have been very good. They don’t have any money for the general classification. That is what is hurting them. But we can see Valentin Panapan even getting a lot of money as well. So, not bad for them. And they even had Valentin Panapan sixth in the mountains classification. So, that also was a bit of the money attributed for that. Next, we have the best procontinental team in the rankings. And again this is Uno X who finished the same spot last year and Uno X took a lot of attention this year as well. They managed to finish third on the opening stage with Sarin Bald. They took a stage win as well in heroic fashion with Yannis Abrahamson and Tobias Halison was very consistent in the GC and managed to stay within the top 10 and finishing seventh. So that meant when we looked at the breakdown, obviously Tobias Talio Hannison and Yas Abrahamson were the two cheap cards in terms getting them prize money and son Marshaw 4,300 there but very close between the two top Norwegians and when we break down the earnings we can see that most of it does come from the final GC results at 29,000 mostly attributed to Topas Haloh Johannes. Seventh on the list is EF Education Easy Post with a total sum of €78,530. This team might have not had the biggest ambitions going into this, but they well and truly delivered with a stage win as Sten in the yellow jersey and the super competivity award all with Ben Healey and even managing to get him inside the top 10 and almost winning the Mormon 2 stage. And in total that meant a lot of prize money from them. 20,000 just for the super competitivity award. And in total, the Irishman got €61,350 and his GC making up €10,500 in total and even getting quite close in the youth classification as well, finishing fourth. So, not a bad return for them. The next team on our list is the Kathlon AG2 and they are sitting sixth right now and had a very decent campaign with Felix Gal who managed to solidify at fifth place overall. They had a number of breakaway as well with Bruno Armaray who did very well to be up there but majority of the money coming from Felix Gal who managed to get 59,230 due to that very good classification and they got also got very high in the team classification where the team finished fifth overall and in total they got 76,730. Coming in at fifth place, we’ve got Little Trek that earned a total of €93,720. And this was a very good result from them. Little Trek taking the green jersey and winning two stages with Jonathan Milan and plenty of intermediate sprints as well. Unsurprisingly, when we look at the breakdown, we can see that Jonathan is responsible for 76,300 in total. Quinn Simmons up there as well. €8,450 for him, but most of the other team not really contributing to that, but we can see Tomcone and Edward Turns getting that mandatory €1,000 for just finishing the race as well. Coming in at number four, we have maybe the surprise package of this list, and that is Team Picnic Postnel, who managed to get an fourth place overall and also being up there in the youth classification, finishing second. and in the sprints also getting several results with Pavl Bitner and Tobias Lon and that meant that in total they got €116,830 and most of that being attributed to Oscar only who got 95,870 in total. Fran Madden broke second with €7,000 to be lon 5,590. So a very impressive hall by the team. Now coming into the big podium and this is where we start to see the real big money in terms of that GC. Red Bull Borah is the third place team on this list with that impressive double punch of Primos Rugglitch and Floren Lipovitz. Floren Lipovich managed to finish on the podium and took the white jersey and Rogich managed to finish inside the top 10 in the GC and finished his first tour of France since 2020. Incidentally, as well, the white jersey was the first time we’ve had a German winner of that since Yan Olrich in 1998. But when we look at the breakdown in total, they’ve got 181,690 in total. And most of that is attributed to Floren Lipovitz with €131,830. The team price, they were also very high up there, getting €20,000 for that. and Roglitch €16,770 and Yordi Mayo’s even getting some money as well in the sprint. But most of that coming from the final classification results from Rugglitch and Floren Lipitz and even that team classification and being up there winning that youth classification, the white jersey which had a lot of money to it as well, 20,000 there. So that is quite impressive. Nevertheless, moving on. Second on our list is team Visma Malissa Bike who are certainly a team with a very animated team in this year’s tour of France and they came away with two stage wins from Simon Yates and Watt Venard. Simon Yates who won the Juralia this year and incidentally we also did a team prize breakdown on that race and Watt Bernard who won a very great victory on the final modified Shamzil stage. Plus, they got on the podium when you won a spingle and even won the team classification overall. And that meant that in total the team would be taking home 367,550. And most of that attributed to Yonas Bingle €257,120 and getting him at 50,000 for the team classification. While Venard €23,170 and Simon Yates even taking €15,530. So very very good by the team and a real real solid performance overall. But that isn’t the top team. The top team again for a second year in the row is UAT Emirates. And unsurprisingly they’ve added another to France title to their growing dominance. And Pagatcha managed to not only win the title but also win four stage wins plus the Mountains jersey classification. and his teammate Tim Wellins also took a stage win and they finished second in the team classification together that amounted to 694,330 in total prize money which is absolutely staggering for the team. When we look at the breakdown, obviously most of this is attributed to Tadiga €627,280. He’s responsible for the team prize 30,000, Tim Wellins 19,70, and Navay’s €5,150. And when we look at the detailed breakdown, we can see Pagato is getting for the final classification for the stage wins as well for the second place overall and also the Mountains jersey. He gets the money prize for that and on top of that wearing all the different jerseys in the different times. Sometimes he was wearing three jerseys. He gets prize money for all that as well. So quite an impressive hall from UA Mermaids and it is huge amount of money. Most of the money normally gets split between the teammates of the winner. So Pagacha might not see any of this money and it’s actually not that much money compared to the amount of effort that these riders do for three weeks. Hard effort injured crashes any weather they do it and for this money they probably should be getting a lot more compared to other sports. But that’s a conversation for another time. Anyways, with that that’s basically it for this video. Make sure to hit the like button, subscribe to the channel if you haven’t already, and why not check out the video of last year’s or even how Tarbagatcha won the race this year. But until next time, thank you for watching and I will see you
31 Comments
I enjoyed your coverage during THE TOUR de FRANCE. I’ve been watching the women’s (Femmes) Tour de France on French TV. You should cover it, I miss your coverage. Just an idea. For the hardest sport in the world the pay day is terrible. Thanks
I totally agree, its very veey shameful the ridiculous size of the prize money. But humph, thats europeans for you isnt it. Profit profit, even at their own peoplws expense.
Please check your presentation for EF education. @5:21
these prizes are miniscule compared to other sports . something needs to be done..
Absolutely pathetic. The worst compensation ever. Every stage win should pay at least 100k euros just based on current sporting realities. One of the most incompetent and unprofessional organizations in the world.
This money is nothing in comparison to how much they earn mostly from sponsors. Pogi earns € 8.3 million per year. Vini earns € 4 million and Remco € 5 million.
Pogacar is not doing the Vuelta….He will be back for the Canadian races….Almeida and Ayuso named Co – Leaders for the Vuelta
it's sad that professional cycling is not more popular among spectators. the riders would (and should) be paid a lot more.
If the races charged (or asked for donations from) roadside fans, then the prize money would be a lot more. Could easily be done with a qr code. The sport could really advance that way, I think
Verstappen gets $65 million per year for an arguably much less demanding sport.
Tdf organizers and the rest of the major tour organizers are thieves. The gc prize money has not changed on like 15 years. Visma stated that the organizers give 67000 to each team for staff expenses. That money used to take care of about 20 staff. Now most teams have 40 plus staff and that money has not been adjusted in years.
Prize money is a ineffective measurement of the teams’ economies, and a misleading way to look at the business of bicycle racing. Professional sports leagues are in the business of selling people’s attention to advertisers. Number of people watching x number of seconds of advertising watched is the currency of professional sports. Athletes and teams get paid to draw people’s attention; that attention is sold to businesses that use it for brainwashing (modern advertising is brainwashing; brainwashing is what they do, advertising is how they do it). Prize money is a cost in cycling for getting content that advertisers use to get viewers to attentively watch brainwashing. Pogi, as a content provider, makes a lot of money providing content. This provides a framework for thinking about how riders – content providers – could work to get paid more.
If it doesn’t involve a ball, most people can’t understand it.
It's like the corrupt FIFA, F1, OLYMPIC, organizations. Millions for the organizers, while participants rely on sponsorships.
Corruptions everywhere even in sports
Just shows how much a teams income comes from sponsorship.
I did bicycle race and I'm in shock. How little these guys are Making during the tour…. Isn't the Tour de France, the greatest bisecular race in the world? And then they then making these numbers don't forget the driver, the manager, the doctors, The mechanics…they all need to get pai Let's say the cheapest 20 people, including riders.Let's say the team makes 100000 after 21 days.This is about thousand bucks for twenty one days work???? That's laughable
Until you can get all those folks along the road to buy tickets, you can’t compare with other sports. If a footbal/futbol stadium contained a velodrome, would people pay to fill it?
wrong slide/graffics for the EF breakdown
Do you have info on rider's salaries? That would help us to know how much they actually earn.
Johannesen was 6th, not 7
Those juicing machines are expensive. Got make a lotta money to get one
This prize fund probably does not cover travel and team subsistence costs for lesser teams
What does it cost to compete
Wow what a pity thats all they receive….that's a lot of work
Very Low prize money generally given the scale of the event. Somewhat sad. Particularly sad is the pittance that the lower ranking teams get. It should be at least 5000 euros per rider completing the course. That'll barely pay a month's salary where this is probably the highest earning race, and these are the top cyclists in the world. Not to mention that there is no prize money for training. Winning team shouldn't get more than about 10x the worst team. They should look at football leagues prize and television money.
Tad gets 14.8 mil euros a year.
Совершенно заслуженные деньги, и это даже мало. Футболисты получают больше, хотя далеко не все из них действительно хороши.
criminal how little money is in it
How much did the organizer earn? Again over 100 million? Disgusting.
Too bad we didn’t get to see it.