Sport Geoghegan Hart, Ineos top prize winners in Giro d'Italia

When Tao Geoghegan Hart overtook Jai Hindley on a spectacular closing time trial in the 2020 Giro d'Italia, he not only claimed the maglia rosa, but that single rung up the GC ladder netted the Ineos Grenadiers an extra €155,006 - the difference in prize money between first and second place in the individual standings - plus €20,000 in the young riders classification, €2,000 for the maglia rosa and €750 for the maglia bianca.

© Provided by Cycling News MILANO ITALY OCTOBER 25 Podium Tao Geoghegan Hart of The United Kingdom Jonathan Castroviejo of Spain Rohan Dennis of Australia Filippo Ganna of Italy Jhonnatan Prado Narvaez of Ecuador Salvatore Puccio of Italy Ben Swift of The United Kingdom Team INEOS Grenadiers Trofeo Senza Fine Trophy Celebration Champagne during the 103rd Giro dItalia 2020 Stage 21 a 157km Individual time trial from Cernusco sul Naviglio to Milano ITT girodiitalia Giro on October 25 2020 in Milano Italy Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images

Ineos Grenadiers took home roughly €430,693 - excluding the daily Intergiro sprints and combativity bonuses. In comparison, the top team in the Tour de France, UAE Team Emirates, won almost €200,000 more.

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Britain’s Tao Geoghegan Hart won the Giro d ’ Italia on Sunday, lifting his first Grand Tour trophy in front of Milan’s Duomo Cathedral after finishing just 39 seconds Geoghegan Hart ’s Italian teammate Filippo Ganna was first in the race against the clock, a seventh stage win for Ineos , who lost team

The Team Ineos rider, elevated by Geraint Thomas’s crash, is as surprised as anyone to end a gruelling Grand Tour on top .

Ineos' haul also included €5,000 for winning the teams classification as well as five daily prizes as top team of the stage at €500 each.

Team Sunweb, taking second and third overall with Jai Hindley and Wilco Kelderman, respectively, were the next highest paid for the race, earning roughly €278,093. Their top earnings came from the €133,412 for second and €68,801 for third in the general classification, Hindley's stage win - worth €11,000 - and the young rider's classification and third place in the teams classification, among other results.

*Prize lists are estimates based upon the rule book and published race results - no full results were available for the second intermediate sprints used to calculate the sprint ranking and the daily combativity prizes.

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Watch Ben O'Connor win atop Madonna di CampiglioThe Australian soloed to the victory after attacking the day's breakaway on the final climb. He finished 31 seconds ahead of chasers Hermann Pernsteiner (Bahrain McLaren) in second and 1:10 ahead of Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal) in third.

GENERAL CLASSIFICATION 1 – Tao Geoghegan Hart (Team Ineos Grenadiers) 2 – Jai Hindley (Team Sunweb) at 39″ 3 – Wilco Kelderman It was impossible for me to even think about winning the Giro when we started in Sicily. All of my career I have dreamt of being top 10 or top 5 in a race like this.

Tao Geoghegan Hart has become the fifth Briton to win a Grand Tour with victory in the Giro d ' Italia . The 25-year-old Londoner beat Australian Jai Hindley Geoghegan Hart pulled on the pink jersey for the first time on the final podium after the race came down to two riders who began the opening stage

Deceuninck-Quickstep, having João Almeida in the maglia rosa for 15 days at €2,000 a pop, took home about €145,507 in total. Almeida won €21,516 for fourth place overall and €6,000 for third best young rider. In all, the young Portuguese was responsible for two-thirds of his team's prize haul.

The next most valuable competition was the points classification, where every day in the maglia ciclamino earns a rider €750, and €10,000 to the overall winner. Thanks to this and the cash on the line for stage wins (€11,000 each), Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ) earned €66,040 for his three weeks of racing.

Démare's team - by virtue of making it through the race without a single penalty or warning - won the Fair Play competition, netting them €5,000, with Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec and Team Sunweb rounding out the top three.

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'We can almost smell Milan now. We'll stay focused and see what happens,' says British riderGeoghegan Hart was beaten by Jai Hindley (Team Sunweb) in the two-rider sprint near the Laghi di Cancano above Bormio and across from the summit of the mighty snow-covered Stelvio.

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Tao Geoghegan Hart of INEOS Grenadiers enjoys podium celebration as stage winner (Image credit: Getty For the first time in history, the top two riders will start the final stage of a Grand Tour tied on time Geoghegan Hart claimed the stage win at Sestriere – his second and Ineos ' sixth of the Giro

Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe), with one stage win, four second places and a day in the mountains classification, earned a respectable €45,243.

The Giro d'Italia gives extra incentives to riders to fight for the daily prizes, awarding five places for the most intermediate sprint points, three places for the most mountain points and three places for the most total points on the stage in addition to the 'fighting spirit' prize that is a combination of both sprint and mountain points - €300 per day. Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal) took home the overall combativity prize of €4,000.

There is also a breakaway prize for most kilometres off the front - €100 per day - and at the end, Mattia Bais (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) won €4,800 for most time in the breakaway.

Gianni Savio certainly knows how to maximize profits, and along with Bais' prize, Simon Pellaud earned the intermediate sprint classification win - worth €8,000 - with Jhonathan Restrepo taking €1,000 for fifth place in the same rankings. The Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec team was best of the wildcards in 12th in the prize money earnings, with €24,607.

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Ineos and Italian wild card teams wanted to raceIt created a rare moment of unity amongst teams but also sparked one of the biggest polemica of the Corsa Rosa, with the race director Mauro Vegni, a string of team manager and directeur sportif all criticising the riders.

Today was just another Sunday, Tao Geoghegan Hart ( Ineos Grenadiers ) had suggested ahead of the final stage of the Giro d ’ Italia , but he knew that wasn’t true. The exercise, a 10-mile time trial, was familiar from his youth, but the stakes had never been this high.

Visit the official website of Giro d ' Italia 2020 and discover all the latest updates and info on the route, stages Sagan, Almeida, Team Ineos Grenadiers and Sunweb among the principal protagonists in the Giro ’s second week. Geoghegan Hart wins stage 15, Almeida retains the Maglia Rosa.