The riders who feature in the prize money at Paris-Roubaix would not want to be surviving on their purse from the contest.
The total prize money awarded at Paris-Roubaix was a very modest €91,000; a sum that perhaps won't come as a shock to fans of the sport but would undoubtedly surprise those outside the hardcore fan based.
Mathew Hayman (Orica-GreenEdge) won the gruelling 257.5km event which featured 27 sections of cobbles, for a total of 52.8km on the very testing pavé.
The leading five arrived at the finish together after 5hrs 51 minutes in the saddle and between them received €77,700 for their efforts.
The top prize was €30,000, with €22,000 for 2nd place, €15,000 for 3rd, €7,500 for 4th and as low as €3,200 for 5th.
A total of 20 cash prizes are awarded to the first 20 across the finish line.
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And by the time you get to 11th place on the list – filled yesterday by world champion Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) - the money is as low as €1,000.
Those who placed from 16th to 20th each get €500.
To put it in perspective, the total prize fund of €91,000 at Paris-Roubaix compares to a $10 million prize fund at the US Masters Golf tournament.
It was in its final stages as the riders were washing the dirt off themselves in the velodrome in Roubaix yesterday evening.
The golfer who finished in 23rd place at the US Masters won $104,000, or roughly €91,000 - the same as the entire prize fund for Paris-Roubaix.
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Hayman's winning prize of €30,000 in Paris Roubaix was roughly equal - ever so slightly higher - than the $33,000 awarded to the player who finished 45th at the Masters.
And Etixx-QuickStep Boonen's €22,000 runner-up prize in the French bike race was almost exactly the same - within $120 - as 50th place in the US Masters, which carries prize money of $25,200.
We can't bring you any more like-for-like comparisons because in the list of prize money published for the US Masters - carried in full below - the organisers stop at $25,200 for 50th.
There are money prizes for those who finish lower than 50th, of course.
But the organisers didn't state it - those prizes are too small to fix in golf it seems.
Instead, anyone finishing below 50th is awarded prize money based on their scores. So now you know!
Paris-Roubaix 2016 Prize Money
1st €30,000 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 05:51:53
2nd €22,000 Tom Boonen (Bel) Etixx - Quick-Step
3rd €15,000 Ian Stannard (GBr) Team Sky
4th €7,500 Sep Vanmarcke (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
5th €3,200 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data 00:00:03
6th €1,700 Heinrich Haussler (Aus) IAM Cycling 00:01:00
7th €1,500 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Soudal
8th €1,300 Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat) IAM Cycling
9th €1,200 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Movistar Team 00:01:07
10th €1,100 Adrien Petit (Fra) Direct Energie 00:02:20
11th €1,000 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff Team
12th €900 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Team LottoNl-Jumbo
13th €800 Oliver Naesen (Bel) IAM Cycling
14th €700 Luke Rowe (GBr) Team Sky
15th €600 Ramon Sinkeldam (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin
16th €500 Dylan Van Baarle (Ned) Cannondale Pro Cycling
17th €500 Bert De Backer (Bel) Team Giant-Alpecin
18th €500 Luke Durbridge (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge 00:04:40
19th €500 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) BMC Racing Team 00:05:48
20th €500 Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 00:06:18
US Maters - Golf tournament
Winner: $1.8 million
Runner-up: $1.08 million
3rd: $680,000
4th: $480,000
5th: $400,000
6th: $360,000
7th: $335,000
8th: $310,000
9th: $290,000
10th: $270,000
11th: $250,000
12th: $230,000
13th: $210,000
14th: $190,000
15th: $180,000
16th: $170,000
17th: $160,000
18th: $150,000
19th: $140,000
20th: $130,000
21st: $120,000
22nd: $112,000
23rd: $104,000
24th: $96,000
25th: $88,000
26th: $80,000
27th: $77,000
28th: $74,000
29th: $71,000
30th: $68,000
31st: $65,000
32nd: $62,000
33rd: $59,000
34th: $56,500
35th: $54,000
36th: $51,500
37th: $49,000
38th: $47,000
39th: $45,000
40th: $43,000
41st: $41,000
42nd: $39,000
43rd: $37,000
44th: $35,000
45th: $33,000
46th: $31,000
47th: $29,000
48th: $27,400
49th: $26,000
50th: $25,200
"The rest of the professionals will receive cash prizes ranging downward from $24,600 depending on the scores," according to the US Masters.
Source for golf information, Augusta.com.
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