2,285,950

The overall prize pot for the 2017 Tour de France is €2,285,950. That’s a slight decrease on last year, but that’s a reflection on the route, namely less prize-paying climbs . Each team splits the money it wins – not just between riders, but mechanics, soigneurs and sometimes even the bus driver, although each team will have its own formula.

Team Sky took home more than any other team in 2016 as Chris Froome won the yellow jersey for the second consecutive year. At the other end of the scale, Cannondale-Drapac won just €14,100 between them.

500

It’s not just the rider who takes home the yellow jersey who finishes quids in either, with €500 the prize for a day in the yellow jersey. Mark Cavendish (€500), Peter Sagan (€1,500), Greg van Avermaet (€1,500) and Chris Froome (€7,000) all wore the maillot jaune in 2016 .

The other three jerseys – the white jersey of best young rider, green jersey of points classification leader and polka dot jersey of King of the Mountains – are each worth €300 a day.

11,000

The top 20 riders on each stage win prize money, with €11,000 reserved for the winner each day, €5,500 for second place and €2,800 for third. The rider finishing 20th earns €300. There’s also €500 on offer for the best young rider (under 26) on every stage.

The 2017 edition of the Tour de France once again no team time trials, but the prize money for those is slightly different, with the winning team netting €10,000 in 2015. Again, quite generously, prize money was awarded down to 20th place.

800

There are prizes atop every climb in the race to the first three riders at the summit. Classified according to their difficulty, seven have been given the toughest HC stamp (hors categorie or beyond category) in 2017 with the first rider to the top of each claiming €800.

The 2017 Tour de France also features 11 category one climbs (€650 to the first to the top); five category two climbs (€500); 14 category three climbs (€300) and 16 rated category four (€200). One of the seven hors categorie climbs also carries a further bonification in 2017…

5,000

Also up for grabs is the Souvenir Henri Desgrange, named in memory of the Tour de France founder, whose memorial stands atop the Col du Galibier. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange is awarded to the first rider to the summit of the highest mountain in each year’s race, which this year happens to be the Galibier on stage 17.

With the Col du Tourmalet not featuring on this year’s route, the Souvenir Jacques Goddet will not be awarded.

1,500

It’s not just the climbs worth money but the intermediate sprints too, with the top three at each sprint not only rewarded with points towards the green jersey classification.

The winner at each sprint nets €1,500, second place gets €1,000 and third place bags €500.

2,000

Alongside the jersey wearers, the podium ceremony also features the rider voted most aggressive of the day (excluding the final stage and any time trial stages). Alongside red race numbers for the following day, the combativity prize also carries a €2,000 reward.

At the end of the race, the “Super Combatif” prize is also awarded to the rider deemed most aggressive in the whole race. Peter Sagan won the €20,000 prize.

2,800

Calculated by adding the times of a team’s three best riders on each stage, plus their fifth placed rider’s time in any team time trial, the team classification awards €2,800 to each day’s top team.

Usually distinguishable by their yellow helmets, the team leading the overall team classification at the end of the race net a further €50,000. The team classification has prize money down to fifth place, with €30,000 for the runners-up and €20,000 for third place. The fourth best team get €12,000 and fifth best claim €8,000. Movistar have scooped the €50,000 prize in the last two years.