The 2024 Tour de France has come to a close and the final tally of prize money won by the 22 teams has been released. UAE Team Emirates, led by Tadey Pogachar, dominated the three-week race and, of course, came out on top again.
Race winner Pogachar and his UAE support team earned €500,000 for the overall victory in the Slovenian yellow jersey, €66,000 for the six stage wins, and almost a third of the €2,282,200 total, or €806,810, for their dominant performance. Euros, almost one-third of the total of €2,282,200.
Pogachar's teammates and climbing domestiques João Almeida and Adam Yates, who finished fourth and sixth overall behind the leader, earned an additional €93,000.
The UAE's prize money total was nearly 150,000 euros more than the overall prize money won by Visma Lease-a-Bike with Jonas Vingegaard in 2023. Along with Matteo Jorgenson's eighth place overall, the Dutch team took the second highest prize money of the 2024 race, totaling €356,220, thanks to the Dane's second place, a stage win, and four stage runner-up finishes.
The GC podium continues to be linked to the prize money ranking, with Soudal-Quick Step, with Lemko Evenepoel, earning €248,860 for winning the white jersey, the overall podium, and a stage win in the time trial to Jevre-Chambertin.
Behind the big names who fought for the overall win in fourth place, Intermarque Wanty, one of the lowest-budget teams in the World Tour, took home €111,760. Not only did they take their first stage win at the Tour de France, but they also became the first ever black African-Americans to win a Tour stage and the green points jersey by Binian Gilmey, earning them the Leaders' Classification.
Also, the two wild card teams to the 2024 edition, Uno-X Mobility and Total Energies, lived up to their name. Despite missing out on their first Tour stage win, the Norwegian team's relentless efforts in the breakaway group produced a series of intermediate sprints, KOM points, and strong stage finishes, earning them €60,170 throughout the three weeks.
Total Energy, after a less action-packed and criticized first week, earned €50,300, the 10th most of all teams. This was mainly thanks to Anthony Turgis' stunning victory on stage 9 of the Gravel Day to Troyes.
It also won the most victories of any French team, despite being a professional team in the second division, and more than €15,000 more than other teams from France such as Arcare-B&B Hotels, Cofidis, Groupama-FDJ and Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale wins.
Red Bull-Bohra-Hansgrohe was late to the party in its quest to become cycling's “super team. The team's GC leader Primoš Roglic crashed before stage 13 and had to abandon the race.
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