Editing Tour de France (section)

===Prizes===
[[File:Tdf prize money in 2013 euro.svg|thumb|Prize money in 2013 [[euro]]s in the Tour de France]]
Prize money has always been awarded. From 20,000 [[French franc|francs]] the first year,{{sfn|Woodland|2007|p=300–304}} prize money has increased each year, although from 1976 to 1987 the first prize was an apartment offered by a race sponsor. The first prize in 1988 was a car, a studio-apartment, a work of art, and 500,000 francs in cash. Prizes only in cash returned in 1990.{{sfn|Augendre|1996|p=69–83}}

Prizes and bonuses are awarded for daily placings and final placings at the end of the race. In 2009, the winner received €450,000, while each of the 21 stage winners won €8,000 (€10,000 for the team time-trial stage). The winners of the points classification and mountains classification each win €25,000, the young rider competition and the combativity prize €20,000 ; the winner of the [[Team classification in the Tour de France|team classification]] (calculated by adding the cumulative times of the best three riders in each team) receives €50 000 .<ref name="Letour Prix">{{cite web |url=http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/LIVE/us/reglements.html |title=Règlement de l'épreuve et Liste des prix |publisher=Letour.fr |access-date=18 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213041745/http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/LIVE/us/reglements.html |archive-date=13 February 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[Souvenir Henri Desgrange]], in memory of the founder of the Tour, is awarded to the first rider over the [[Col du Galibier]] where his monument stands,<ref name="Letour Prix"/> or to the first rider over the highest col in the Tour. A similar award, the [[Souvenir Jacques Goddet]], is made at the summit of the [[Col du Tourmalet]], at the memorial to [[Jacques Goddet]], Desgrange's successor.