Grand Tours are big business – not least in terms of the prize money they offer to successful teams and riders. The total prize fund for the Giro d’Italia this year is €1,636,460 – a rather random amount of cash, let's be honest – but some teams and individuals stand to take home a sizeable chunk of that pot and top up their annual earnings. Others, not so much...
The complexities of how the money is divided up are tricky to grasp, and we don’t envy the organisers the task of figuring out the daily totals – it’s fair to say a few calculators will be required. Let’s take a look at how the money is distributed.
