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 residence probably the most iconic jersey, the yellow one, within the sport, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Workforce 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 biggest prize purse. Nevertheless, there’s a large distinction in what Pogačar took residence 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 whole, with the general winner taking residence €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 girls’s racing, it nonetheless pales compared to the lads’s Tour.
The lads’s Tour de France has €2.4 million of prize cash in whole, of which Pogačar took residence the €500,000 (£423,000/$554,000) grand prize – double the 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 phases alongside the way in which, so didn’t bump up her take-home win bonus anymore that approach, however did acquire further from ending within the top-20 on phases 4, 5, six, seven and eight, in addition to putting 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 girls’s Tour. Girmay took residence €25,000 and a further €300 each day he wore the inexperienced jersey. Vos, compared, took residence €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 each day 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 workforce with the most effective performances. The workforce’s classification is calculated by a workforce’s three highest-placed riders and was gained by UAE Workforce Emirates within the males’s Tour, netting the workforce €50,000. Lidl-Trek earned €6,000, 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 girls’s Tour, Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime), who completed in second, acquired the honours, including a further €2,000 to her Tour winnings.
