Slovenian Tadej Pogacar won the Tour de France on Sunday evening for the fourth time in his career. The UAE runner will also do a nice financial operation, even if he will share part of his earnings.
Tadej Pogacar thought he was winning a fifth stage victory this Sunday on the Champs-Élysées but he was released by a monumental Wout van aert in the Montmartre hill. But the essential was assured for Pogi, who won this tour with 4 minutes and 24 seconds ahead of Jonas Vingegaard.
Slovenian pockets a nice jackpot at the same time. Nothing until Sunday evening, he won the check for 500,000 euros awarded to the race winner. But the accounting assessment of the leader of AUE is embellished with several bonuses which reward its three weeks.
The Tour de France rewards runners for many race facts. For example, the winner of a stage collects 11,000 euros. Thanks to its successes in Rouen, Mûr-de-Bretagne, Hautacam and Peyragudes, Pogacar pockets 44,000 euros through this. Knowing that all the members of the top 10 of each stage are financially rewarded, Pogacar is also entitled to other compensation. Besides his victories, he also finished nine times in the top 10 of a stage.
Bonuses shared with the team
In addition to the steps, the carriers of distinctive jerseys are also rewarded. And on this point, the cannibal Pogi pulled the jackpot. Each day spent in yellow is rewarded by 500 euros against 300 euros for the wearing of other jerseys. With 14 days in yellow, 11 with the polka dot tunic and two with the green jersey, Pogacar therefore inherits 10,900 euros. With all of these categories, Tadej Pogacar should only pocket 582,980 over these three weeks.
But the harvest of Pogi does not stop there since bonuses are also distributed to runners at the heights of the passes listed in the mountain classification. For example, 800 euros for a passage at the top of a collar outside the category, compared to 200 euros for a 4th category.
A amounts to put to perspective with the customs of the cycling teams. Indeed, most runners share their earnings with the team members and their staff. Recall that unlike other athletes, cyclists have an annual fixed salary that these premiums obtained in competition complement.
