Tour de France 2019: Prize money - The prize money overview after the Tour de France 2019

The most lucrative special classification of the Tour de France has always been the overall classification, which pays 500,000 euros for winning. No wonder that Ineos and its overall winner Egan Bernal are also the winners of the prize money at the 106th Tour de France. The Colombian rider, who is just 22 years old, and his seven colleagues collected a total of 799,200 euros in prize money over the 21 stage days. This means that Ineos will receive more prize money than the next five teams in the ranking combined (819,620).

Good results for Bora

Bora-hansgrohe, the team of Tour fourth-placed Emanuel Buchmann (Ravensburg) and sprinter king Peter Sagan, who won the special classification for the seventh time, pocketed a total of 159,050 euros. The team from Raubling in Upper Bavaria was followed by Jumbo-Visma (203,400) and Deceuninck-Quick Step (189,940). In last place in the prize table is the French Équipe Total-Direct Energie with just 17,760 euros. That is still 3,000 euros more than Education First, last year's last-placed team.

The skewed premium system of the tour

Curious: Even the overall fifth place in Paris (Julian Alaphilippe) still receives twice as much as the winner of the mountains or points classification (Romain Bardet and Peter Sagan respectively). The best young professional (Egan Bernal) will be rewarded with 20,000 euros, as will the most combative rider of the Tour (Julian Alaphilippe), as determined by a jury. Cycling still lives more from sponsorship money than from competition bonuses. Normally, the total sum is divided equally between all eight riders in the team after more than three weeks of exertion.

Converted, Tour winner Bernal receives 143.67 euros per kilometre played. In comparison: French Open winner Rafael Nadal collected 2.3 million euros in prize money - for a total of just over seventeen hours of playing time. Even participants who are eliminated in round one of the biggest clay court tennis tournament receive 47,000 euros, almost double the prize money for the best sprinter (Sagan) or climber (Bardet)!

Prize money table for the 2019 Tour de France