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2010 Tour de France

How many runners win the Tour de France? Are the rewards worth the effort for granted?

Here are the numbers of 2010 (source: Wikipedia ).

Gains won by the first overall are much larger than the gains of the rankings for points or for climbers. We can also see that the first generation of the ranking wins nine times the price of the 5th! So this year, 5 minutes 27 ahead of Contador in his Van Den Broeck reported € 400 000. not bad!

Even better: its 8 seconds ahead of him relate Shleck € 250 000, € 31 250 or the second ... We understand why they snapped up the sprints!

Here are the numbers:

General Classification

1. € 450 000
2. € 200 000
3. € 100 000
4. € 70 000
5. € 50 000
6. € 23 000
7. € 11 500
8. € 7600

Ranking Points

1. € 25 000
2. € 15 000
3. € 10 000
4. € 4000
5. € 3500
6. € 3000
7. € 2 500
8. € 2 000

Ranking Climbers

Same as points

Ranking Young

1. € 20 000
2. € 15 000
3. € 10 000
4. € 5 000

Team standings

1. € 50 000
2. € 30 000
3. € 20 000
4. € 12 000
5. € 8000

Special price of most aggressive rider: € 20 000