How much prize money did Simon Yates get for winning the Giro d'Italia?

The 2025 Giro d'Italia is over, and just like us, you might find yourselves wondering just how much the riders got for winning stages, donning a distinctive jersey or simply winning a bonus sprint.

Wonder no longer, then, because here's Cycling Weekly's guide to where all that prize money - €1,636,460 in total - goes at the end of the race.

One crucial thing to note, however, is that in cycling the prize money does not normally solely go to the person who has won the thing. Instead, it is custom that the prize money is split between the team that helped the winner get to the podium.

Therefore, while the 2025 Giro winner, Simon Yates (Visma-Lease a Bike) might attract all the headlines, his rewards will be split among his teammates like Wout van Aert and Steven Kruijswijk.

So here is how the €1,636,460 is split up

General classification prizes

The most money goes to the man who pulls on the maglia rosa at the end of the 21 days, as is natural. As well as the Trofeo Senza Fine - the endless trophy - and the pink jersey, the winner in Rome will get €115,668.

Finishing second on the podium will get you €58,412 with the third placed rider overall netting €28,801.

The rider who comes fourth takes home €14,516, fifth €11,654, sixth and seventh €8,558 and eight and ninth €5,725. All riders between tenth and twentieth get €2,863, so perhaps it is not the money that will inspire you to get higher in the top 20.

There is also a 'Special Prize' fund, according to Giro organisers RCS. This would mean €150,000 for the winner, €75,000 for second and €40,000 to third, with €7,000 for fourth, €6,500 for fifth and €5,000 for riders sixth to tenth.

So for winning the Giro the champion will get €265,668, excluding other potential prizes.

Stage by stage prizes

Each individual stage winner got €11,010, with €5,508 for second place and €2,753 for third, so it is always worth keeping riding for the podium on the day.

Money was given out all the way down to 20th position on each day, with riders in 10th to 20th getting €276 each.

Furthermore, the holder of the pink jersey each day got €2,000, so if you are a rider who is controlling the top of the general classification for long, it can get very lucrative. Yates only got this on the penultimate day.

Other classification prizes

Of course, the race is not just about the pink jersey and stage winners. There's the mountains jersey, the young rider competition, and the points jersey too.

For points, with the leader of the competition in ciclamino - purple to the lay man - €750 was given each day to the wearer, with €700 given to the rider who is leading the daily classification. €400 and €200 were handed out for second and third on a single day.

Overall, €10,000 was given to the man who wins the points classification, with €8,000 for second, €6,000 for third, €4,000 for fourth, and €3,000 for fifth. Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) had a lucrative Giro in this regard.

The blue mountains jersey works in a similar fashion, exactly the same with regards to the daily prizes, actually. However, the overall winner got a bit less, with €5,000 for the points champion, down to €1,000 for the fifth placed rider. Lorenzo Fortunato (XDS Astana) benefited from this.

For the white jersey competition, the classification for the best young rider, the best each day got €750, with the top five at the end receiving prizes from €10,000 down to €2,000. Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) might have missed out on the overall win, but he did secure the white jersey at the end.

Meanwhile, the best team - determined by the cumulative time of the three best placed riders on each squad, each day - were given daily prizes of €500, €300 and €100. At the end of the race, €5,000 through €1,000 was given to the top five fastest teams. UAE Team Emirates-XRG won the teams prize.

Other prizes

There were other, smaller prizes on offer too, which are worth glancing your eye over, and remembering if you are wondering why a team is doing something which looks a bit odd.

Riders who are first over the intermediate sprints for points - this is different to the Red Bull KM - get €500, down to €100 for fifth. This works into an overall competition, which meant €8,000 for the rider with the most points in this, followed by €6,000, €4,000, €2,000 and €1,000 for the next four.

The Giro's version of the Tour de France's combativity award, the Fighting Spirit prize, saw €1,000 given to the most combative rider each day, and €5,000 to the overall winner - which is the rider selected the most times - with €4,000 and €3,000 on offer for the others on the combative podium.

The rider who spent the longest in a breakaway each day gets €200, with the person who tots up the most kilometres in an escape gets €5,000. The rules for this are that the group must be less than 11 riders, and that the move must be away for at least 5km.

The final "other" prize for riders was to do with the new introduction, the Red Bull KM. This is a rebadged bonus seconds sprint, in effect, but there are also separate prizes on offer. Understood? No, me neither.

Each winner of a Red Bull KM sprint got €2,500, as well as six bonus seconds, second gets €1,500 and four seconds, and third gets €1,000 and two. At the end of the Giro, there was a separate competition for most Red Bull KM placings, with the winner of that getting €15,000, second €10,000, and third €5,000. So there was a time advantage to winning a bonus sprint, but also a financial incentive. Simple.