Tadej Pogačar and UAE Team Emirates-XRG top Tour de France prize money list with €832,750

Tadej Pogačar dominated the 2026 Tour de France, and he and his UAE Staff Emirates-XRG crew additionally dominated the ultimate prize cash checklist. Pogačar’s success ensured he received €611,980 of the €2.3 million prize pot, with UAE taking residence a complete of €832,750 throughout the 21 days of racing.

Pogačar earned €500,000 for profitable the Tour and extra for his 5 stage victories and sixteen days within the chief’s yellow jersey. He earned greater than double second-placed Remco Evenepoel (Purple Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), who earned €247,800. Isaac del Toro earned €155,450 for his third place general.

The prize cash mirrored Pogačar’s dominance within the race and his closing 6:26 profitable margin on Evenepoel. Pogačar will certainly additionally earn important bonuses from his UAE crew and sponsors, whereas the prize cash might be shared amongst the riders and workers, with maybe Pogačar giving up his share. He’s probably to purchase his teammates some type of reward as a private thanks.

UAE’s haul of €832,750 was greater than 3 times the €288,160 quantity received by Purple Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe. Lidl-Trek collected €204,870 because of Mads Pedersen’s inexperienced jersey, his stage win, their crew prize and the sixth and seventh GC placings by Mattias Skjelmose and Juan Ayuso. Quinn Simmons additionally added to their prize pot, with a closing €3,000 for the very best teammate prize of the 2026 Tour.

The much less profitable crew earned far much less, underlining the restricted prize cash in professional biking in comparison with different sports activities, with solely 5 groups incomes greater than €100,000. Picnic PostNL completed backside of the 23-team checklist with €12,770 earned for 3 weeks of record-breaking velocity racing.

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L’Equipe did a full breakdown of the prize cash, highlighting how Mads Pedersen earned €69,290 and completed seventh within the prize cash standings as he accomplished his Grand Tour triptych of inexperienced jersey victories. Richard Carapaz completed eighth within the GC however was the fourth highest-prize winner because of his two stage wins and the tremendous combativity award.

Racing aggressively pays off on the Tour, each straight and not directly.

Baptiste Veistroffer (Lotto Intermarché) turned a brand new hero of the Tour by breaking away when few different riders did. He collected €15,900 in prize cash because of profitable the combativity award 3 times. He’ll in all probability earn far more when he extends his contract and through the post-Tour criteriums that start in Belgium and the Netherlands on Monday night.

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