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This included a €500,000 overall prize for champion Jonas Vingegaard (Team Jumbo-Visma). The Dane received €581,720 throughout the course of the race for stage wins, placings on stages and climbs and spells in the polka-dot jersey.

Riders can earn money from all the main prizes, as well as on categorised climbs, intermediate sprints and even just finishing within the first 160 classified riders in the race.

A day in the King of the Mountains jersey was worth €300, while the top eight in the final mountains classification are rewarded at the end of the race.

The overall winner in 2022 received €25,000, while second place got €15,000. Vingegaard took the King of the Mountains prize in 2022, as well as securing overall victory.

Tour de France stage winner prize money

The winner of each stage earned €11,000 in 2022, as well as a place on the podium at the end of the day. Second place was worth €5,500, while the rider in third raked in €2,800.

In fact, every rider down to 20th place (€300) earned a share of the €28,650 on offer each day. Here’s the full breakdown for each individual stage classification.

•  €11,000
•  €5,500
•  €2,800
•  €1,500
•  €830
•  €780
•  €730
•  €670

If winning the stage also put a rider into the yellow jersey, there was an extra €500 up for grabs, with the same prize on offer for each day a rider wore the maillot jaune.

The rider in the yellow jersey on the final podium in Paris in 2022 won €500,000, with Vingegaard taking the spoils. The prize increased in 2016 and has remained the same since.

Second place went to Tadej Pogačar, earning him €200,000, with Geraint Thomas taking home €100,000 in third.

Each rider from fourth to 19th receives incrementally less money, and everyone from 20th place to 160th is awarded €1,000 for completing the roughly 3,500km course.