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Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Demi Vollering, and their rival teams gobbled almost half the total prize money available at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.
“PFP” and Visma-Lease a Bike took home most from the fourth edition of the Femmes on Sunday night.
With a yellow jersey, three stage wins (two from Ferrand-Prévot, one from Marianne Vos), and miscellaneous other prizes, the Killer Bees won a total of €76,190 ($88,000 USD).
FDJ Suez – the new super team of the Women’s WorldTour – was next best at €53,180.
It will come as no surprise that the new “Queen of France” was the highest individual earner from the nine-day tour.
Ferrand-Prévot won €50,000 for her overall victory and a further €8,000 for her back-to-back stage-winning assault on the Alps. Throw in some miscellaneous primes, and the 33-year-old superstar will pocket a check of around €60,000 ($69,000 USD) from race organizer ASO.
Vollering was next in the individual earnings. She won more than €30,000 for her second-place finish and seven daily top-10s.
A full breakdown can be seen below – ed.
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Ferrand Prévot won 10 percent of what Pogačar got
The Tour de France Femmes and the recently revamped Giro d’Italia offer the largest prize purses in women’s cycling.
ASO paid out a total of €259,430 ($300,000 USD) after PFP sprayed the champagne all over Châtel.
But that’s just a fraction of what’s up for grabs at the men’s Tour de France.
Tadej Pogačar put around €600,000 in the pocket of his fourth yellow jersey and other prize money last month.
His UAE Emirates-XRG team took the lion’s share of a prize purse that totaled €2,578,000 ($2,980,000 USD).
The tenfold difference in total prize purse is wildly disproportionate to the fact that the men race across 21 stages, while the women race across nine.
It’s a disparity that echoes through the two sides of the sport.
Team budgets and rider salaries in the men’s WorldTour are multiple times larger than those at the top end of the women’s peloton.
Tour de France Femmes vs. Tour de France
Tour de France Femmes (€)
Tour de France (€)
Overall GC victory
50,000
500,000
Points classification winner (green jersey)
3,000
25,000
KOM winner (polka dot jersey)
3,000
25,000
Youth classification winner (white jersey)
3,000
20,000
Stage win
4,000
11,000
Total prize purse
264,000
2,578,000
How prizes are paid
Ferrand-Prévot added another line to her huge multi-discipline palmares at the 2025 Femmes. (Photo: Gruber Images / Velo)
ASO awards prize monies for classifications and stage placings. Further primes are available for miscellaneous achievements like “most aggressive” of the day and first riders to crest categorized summits.
The prize structure of the Tour de France Femmes reveals how pro cycling is not the sport for a budding athlete who’s looking to get rich quick.
The yellow jersey of the Femmes offers the biggest prize at €50,000, which is probably the equivalent of a half-hour warm-up for a tennis player.
Stage-winners are awarded €4,000.
Monies are available to the top-20 finishers on both daily stages and the final overall classification.
Winners of the green, white, and polka dot sub-categories win €3,000.
And while PFP won big Sunday, she’s not likely to cash all of the €60,000 into her own bank account.
Tour de France winners typically share a portion of their winnings among teammates.
Furthermore, Visma-Lease a Bike will slice a portion off for the dozens of team managers, soigneurs, mechanics, and auxiliary staffers who worked on the race.
Lowest-earning team can barely can pay for its pizzas
French wildcard team Winspace Orange Seal will leave the Tour out of pocket. (Photo: Tim De Waele / Getty Images)
Spare a thought for the low earners of the Femmes.
Four teams won less than €500 each.
French wildcard team Winspace Orange Seal was bottom of the rankings with a lowly €290. That’s just $340.
They’ll only have loose change after they paid for a round of pizzas and some champagne after Sunday’s final stage.
At another level, SD Worx-Protime might have been wishing for a lot more, too.
The original supersquad of the women’s peloton will be disappointed at winning fifth-most with €20,130.
Double stage-winner and green jersey owner Lorena Wiebes saved the team’s blushes after Lotte Kopecky and Anna van der Breggen’s GC hopes unraveled.
The Dutch speedster was one of the biggest earners of the race with a haul of around €12,000.
Big prizes in cycling, small prizes in sport
The Tour de France Femmes is the highlight of the women’s calendar, but the payout remains relatively small. (Photo: Gruber Images / Velo)
The big takeaway here?
The Tour de France Femmes is the biggest race in women’s road racing, but in a wider sporting context, it sure doesn’t pay big.
There’s a huge gap in earnings to both the men’s peloton and other women’s sports.
How soon will that change, if ever?
ASO and its partners will likely deem this year’s Tour de France Femmes a huge success. The race saw its first home winner, Frenchwomen won four stages, and the roadside support was huge.
How that will impact prize payments and the ongoing support from title partner Zwift remains to be seen.
Zwift is contracted as title partner through 2026.
Total Tour de France Femmes prize distributions (€):
Team Visma-Lease a Bike: 76,190
FDJ-Suez: 53,810
UAE Team ADQ: 25,630
AG Insurance-Soudal Team: 22,450
Team SD Worx-Protime: 20,130
Canyon//Sram Zondacrypto: 15,320
Lidl – Trek: 7,980
Team Picnic PostNL: 7,080
EF Education-Oatly: 6,430
Liv-Alula-Jayco: 6,390
Fenix-Deceuninck: 4,880
Human Powered Health: 2,640
Arkea-B&B Hotels Woman: 2,630
Cofidis Women Team: 2,200
Volkerwessels Cycling Team: 1,640
Movistar Team: 1,460
Ceratizit Pro Cycling Team: 700
Uno-X Mobility: 490
St Michel-Preference Home-Auber93: 460
Roland Le Devoluy: 320
Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi: 310
Winspace Orange Seal: 290
Union taxes: 4,772
TOTAL: 264,152