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Prize money in 2013 euros in the Tour de France. Prize money has always been awarded. From 20,000 francs the first year, [102] prize money has increased each year, although from 1976 to 1987 the first prize was an apartment offered by a race sponsor. The first prize in 1988 was a car, a studio-apartment, a work of art, and 500,000 francs in cash.
Jonas Vingegaard will collect his second yellow jersey in Paris and a big winners’ cheque for topping the general classification
The Tour de France is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in July. Established in 1903 by newspaper L'Auto, the Tour is the best-known and most prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. [1]
At the end of the Tour de France, a "super-combativity award" is given to the most combative cyclist of the race. As of 2017 [update] , the total prize money for the super-combativity award winner is €20,000.
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Only seven times, the Tour started without any former Tour de France winner. This happened in 1903, 1927, 1947, 1956, 1966, 1999 and 2006. Only in 1903, apart from the cyclist that won the race, was there no other former or future Tour de France winner. In 1914, a record of seven former Tour de France winners started that year's Tour: [23]
The Souvenir Henri Desgrange is an award and cash prize given in the yearly running of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tour races. It is won by the rider that crosses a particular point in the race, mostly the summits of the highest and iconic climbs in the Alps and Pyrenees. [1]
The Tour's total prize money has risen substantially from the time it was just under $400 million in 2021. While the threat of more players defecting to LIV certainly played a factor, that money ...