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Who won the most prize money at the Tour de France Femmes 2024?
The 2024 Tour de France Femmes concluded atop the Alpe d’Huez on Sunday. After a close battle, Kasia Niewiadoma of Canyon-SRAM took the overall victory after finishing the 2022 and 2023 races in third place. The Polish rider beat Demi Vollering of SD Worx-Protime and Fenix-Deceuninck’s Pauliene Rooijakkers to the top spot.
The Tour de France Femmes has a total prize money pot of €250,000. This includes the €50,000 on offer for the general classification winner and €4,000 for a stage victory.
Kasia Niewiadoma finished the race as the rider with the most prize money. She accrued around €56,000. Canyon-SRAM, Niewiadoma’s team, hauled a total of €58,980, becoming the top team at the 2024 Tour de France Femmes in terms of prize money.
Unequal prize pools
First of all, it’s important to highlight the financial discrepancies between the Tour de France Femmes and the men’s Tour de France.
The Tour de France Femmes’ prize pool currently sits at €250,000. This number is set to slightly increase in 2025 as the race grows in length. However, the current amount is approximately 10% of the total prize money available at the men’s Tour de France, which has a total prize pool of €2.4million.
The cheques for winning the Tour also reflect a similar disparity. The winner of the Tour de France Femmes receives €50,000 while the Tour de France champion enjoys a ten-fold increase of €500,000. This inflation increases down the overall standings and with stage victories, which warrant €4,000 instead of the men’s €11,000 for a stage victory.
Kasia Niewiadoma, the highest earner
In a nailbiting finish at the Alpe d’Huez, Kasia Niewiadoma claimed her first Grand Tour victory after fighting resiliently for the yellow jersey.
By winning the maillot jaune, Niewiadoma pocketed €50,000. For each day she wore the jersey, she earned an extra €100. With this, we estimate that the Canyon-SRAM leader received a total prize money cheque of €56,700. This sum factors in her time in the yellow jersey (€300), stage results (€4,300) and her top five finishes in the points and QOM classifications (€1000 and €800).
This €56,700 allocation means that Niewiadoma is the rider with the most amount of prize money at the 2024 race. This total equates to roughly £48,000 or $62,000.
Demi Vollering and Pauliena Rooijakkers follow suit
SD Worx-Protime’s leader Demi Vollering had a turbulent Tour. She won two stages, wore the yellow jersey and finished in second place overall, but a crash on Stage 5 left us wondering what could have been for the 2023 champion.
After a week of highs and lows, Vollering leaves the Tour de France Femmes with the second-highest pay cheque of €41,110 (excluding QOM or intermediate sprints). As part of this figure, Vollering received €11,110 from her stage finishes. This makes her the top prize money winner from stage finishes alone. She also received €2,000 courtesy of the super-combatif prize.
With a courageous move on the final stage, Pauliena Rooijakkers secured her place on the final podium in third place. With this GC performance and a podium on Stage 8, Rooijakkers took home a sum of €12,980 in prize money.
Fourth place in GC and a perennial figure in top 10, France’s Évita Muzic is the fourth highest earner from the Tour with a prize money cheque of €9,970.
Other big earners
On her Grand Tour debut, cycling phenomenon Puck Pieterse won the white jersey, took victory on Stage 4 and finished in 11th place overall. The Dutchwomen comes in as the fifth highest earner from the Tour with €9,380 in prize money. This includes the €3,000 from her white jersey win.
In becoming the first French stage winner in the history of the Tour de France Femmes, Cédrine Kerbaol rode a phenomenal Grand Tour. The stage win, daily combative prize and GC top ten bring her total prize money haul to €8,540.
Another stage winner, Justine Ghekiere, slots into the top ten earners from the Tour courtesy of her Stage 7 victory and polka-dot jersey win. In total, the AG Insurance-Soudal rider pooled €7,500 (excluding intermediate QoM prizes).
The sprinters and stage hunters
The green jersey warrants a €3,000 cheque for the winner, with €100 given for each day spent in green. €120 is awarded to the rider who passes the intermediate sprint in first place.
The winner of the maillot vert Marianne Vos gathered a prize pool of around €6,900. This comes from the €3,000 for winning the points classification as well as her high-stage placements throughout the race.
The highest earner from the sprints, however, is not Vos. This is the early-race star Charlotte Kool of DSM-Firmenich-PostNL. Despite not finishing the race, Kool earned €8,750 from her two stage wins, five days spent in the green jersey and two stages in yellow. If Kool had finished the race, she would have received an extra €1,500 bonus for finishing in second place in the points classification.
Canyon-SRAM lead the teams ahead of SD Worx
With the overall victory, Niewiadoma’s Canyon-SRAM squad lead the prize money rankings for teams. The team earned €58,980, most of which came from Niewiadoma’s yellow jersey win and stage rankings. In comparison, UAE Team Emirates, the winning team of the Tour de France, netted over €800,000. Canyon-SRAM, therefore, won 8% of what Pogačar’s team were awarded at the Tour.
Like in the GC, SD Worx are close behind. The Dutch superteam finished the Tour de France with €52,600 in prize money. Together, SD Worx and Canyon-SRAM took around half of the total prize money.
Fenix-Deceuninck follow the two leaders with €24,670. The squad were propped up by the successes of Rooijakkers in GC and Pieterse’s white jersey and stage win. Lidl-Trek won the team classification and finish with the fourth biggest prize money haul of €19,750.
On the other end of the spectrum, five teams finished the Tour with less than €1,000 in prize money. These teams were Liv-AlUla-Jayco, Human Powered Health, Roland, Cofidis and Tashkent City. The latter received no prize money at all.
Full Tour de France 2024 prize money team standings
- Canyon-SRAM (€58,980)
- Team SD Worx-ProTime (€52,600)
- Fenix-Deceuninck (€24,670)
- Lidl-Trek (€19,750)
- FDJ-Suez (€16,730)
- AG Insurance-Soudal (€13,720)
- Team DSM-Firmenich-PostNL (€11,390)
- Ceratizit-WNT (€11,160)
- Movistar Team (€8,060)
- Team Visma-Lease a Bike (€8,000)
- Arkéa-B&B Hotels (€4,940)
- Lotto-dstny (€3,190)
- UnoX Mobility (€2,990)
- EF-Oatly-Cannondale (€2,820)
- UAE Team ADQ (€2,690)
- St Michel-Mavic-Auber93 (€2,210)
- Laboral Kutxa Fundación Eusakdi (€1,140)
- Liv-AlUla-Jayco (€810)
- Human Powered Health (€440)
- Roland (€330)
- Cofidis Team (€280)
- Tashkent City (€0)
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