The Olympic champion shares a position and salary with the Spanish Alejandro Valverde and the Belgian Wout van Aert, according to a salary ranking on the Brújula Bike website.
In the final stretch of the 2021 cycling season on the World Tour, much will be said about the salaries of athletes who are earning more and more in a sport that already has within it the Asian and European powers of the economy with powerful teams and large payments to the figures. Inevitably the highest paid is the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar after its millionaire renewal with UAE Team Emirates until 2027, but there are several surprises in the data collected a few days ago by Compass Bike, website dedicated to cycling.
According Compass Bike, in data that were published on November 8, the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz in 2022 he will have the fourth best payment within Team Ineos, receiving 2.2 million euros (2’478,044 dollars). And, in turn, he will be the second highest paid in Latin America behind the Colombian Egan Bernal, his partner in the British squad, and the eighth best in the world, sharing position and salary with the Spanish Alejandro Valverde (Movistar Team) and the Belgian Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma).
Slovenian Primoz Roglic He’s not even in the top ten, he’s still paid on his old contract, and several runners on the list and on his team have recently signed deals. The British Chris Froome he is still one of the highest paid despite his poor fitness and Slovak Peter Sagan is on the podium after signing with Total Energies for 2022.
The best payment in Latin America is Bernal in Ineos when he received 2.8 million euros, 600,000 more than Carapaz, who last July was consecrated with the gold medal of the route test of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. However, the Colombian who in 2019 conquered the Tour de France appears as the leader of the team, placing himself in the top 5 of ranking wage.
For its part, Nairo quintana (Arkea), also from Colombia and Carapaz’s former teammate on the Movistar Team, is in 19th place.
This is the list of the top 20 posted by Compass Bike last November 8:
- Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) 6 million euros
- Chris Froome (Israel Start-Up Nation) 5,5 millones de euros
- Peter Sagan (Total Energies) 5.5 million euros
- Geraint Thomas (Team Ineos) 3.5 million euros
- Egan Bernal (Team Ineos) € 2.8 million
- Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Ineos) 2.5 million euros
- Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep) € 2.3 million
- Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) € 2.2 million
- Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) 2.2 million euros
- Richard Carapaz (Team Ineos) 2.2 million euros
- Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) 2.1 million euros
- Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) 2 million euros
- Adam Yates (Team Ineos) 2 million euros
- Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) 2 million euros
- Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) 2 million euros
- Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) 2 million euros
- Romain Bardet (DSM) 2 million euros
- Elia Viviani (Cofidis) 1.9 million euros
- Nairo Quintana (Arkea) 1.9 million euros
- Fernando Gaviria (UAE) 1.8 million euros
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