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That sum is very little (equivalent to 10,100 million pesos), if one takes into account that it must be distributed among the 22 participating teams, with half a million euros for the winner, who in turn distributes them with his team.
The amounts provided by the Tour de France are much lower than those of other sports, such as the Wimbledon ‘grand slam’ tennis tournament, which in 2019 gave players the equivalent of almost 182.7 billion pesos, an increase of 7, 6% from the previous year, and that has doubled since 2012, reports Sporting News.
In 2019, the singles champions of the British tennis tournament (Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep) each pocketed 2.9 million dollars, equivalent to 11,126,000 million pesos.
The Tour de France does not deliver so much prize money
Former cyclist and now Caracol News commentator Santiago Botero says that the money distributed by the Tour “is very little”, while his transmission partner, Georgina Ruíz Sandoval ‘Goga’, points out that it is the same that he has been paying for 20 years.
This means that the Tour de France pays about 18 times less than what Wimbledon pays its athletes, and 21 times less to the winner of the competition.
The specialized cycling portal Velonews publishes the list of what each team received which, as Santiago Botero also explained during the transmission of the last stage of the test, is distributed among cyclists, mechanics, masseurs and chefs and, on some occasions, among cyclists who did not complete the route due to justifiable causes, such as falls or illness.
In the case of Nairo Quintana’s team, who finished the Tour in very poor physical condition due to his falls, his effort was not rewarded, as it was the team that won the fewest awards.
The following figures are expressed in approximate amounts, in Colombian pesos:
- UAE-Team Emirates (to which the champion Tadej Pogacar belongs): 2,742 million pesos
- Team Jumbo Visma: (from Primoz Roglic, second overall): 1,580 million pesos.
- Trek-Segafredo: 726 million pesos.
- Movistar: 611 million pesos.
- Team Sunweb: 526.5 million pesos.
- Bahrain-McLaren: 510.5 million pesos.
- Deceuninck-Quick-Step: 488 million pesos.
- Astana (by Miguel Ángel López and Harold Tejada): 333 million pesos.
- Ineos Grenadiers (by Egan Bernal): 329.6 million pesos.
- Bora-Hansgrohe: 317 million pesos.
- EF Pro Cycling (by Rigoberto Urán, Daniel F. Martínez and Sergio Higuita): 268 million pesos.
- CCC Team: 214.7 million pesos.
- AG2R-La Mondiale: 203.3 million pesos.
- Mitchelton-Scott (by Esteban Chaves): 183.8 million pesos.
- B&B Hotels-Vital Concept: 173 million pesos.
- Lotto-Soudal: 170.1 million pesos.
- Cofidis: 153.3 million pesos.
- Groupama-FDJ: 147.4 million pesos.
- Israel Start-up Nation: 97.3 million pesos.
- NTT Pro Cycling Team: 91.4 million pesos.
- Total Direct Energie: 82.8 million pesos.
- Arkéa-Samsic (from Nairo Quintana, Dáyer Quintana and Winner Anacona): 69.5 million pesos.
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