How much did Van der Poel and Van Aert earn from their cross winter and who was the biggest earner?

Eli Iserbyt often mentioned it in recent weeks. That it was a long and tough cyclo-cross season for him. Iserbyt didn’t shy away from any effort, trotting almost everywhere, 37 times in total. And that paid off big time. With 125,320 euros, he ‘by far’ raked in the most prize money of all cyclo-cross riders. Numbers two and three, the Dutch Lars van der Haar and Joris Nieuwenhuis, park around 80,000 euros. Niels Vandeputte, with 39 competition days the most active of the entire field, ends up with a small 55,225 euros. All told… 25 euros more than world champion Mathieu van der Poel, who got the most out of his short campaign with 54,200 euros in just 14 races. Wout van Aert (20,150 euros, nine cross days) and Tom Pidcock (13,450 euros, eight cross days) occupy fourteenth and eighteenth place respectively in this ranking.

Iserbyt also reversed the trend of the past few years, where the best female crosser consistently ended up with a more solid bank account than the male variant. Still, Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado was good for 105,290 euros spread over 25 competition days – no less than twelve less than Iserbyt.

World champion Fem van Empel comes to a hefty 95,000 euros, Lucinda Brand is a nice third with 76,770 euros. Finally, a Belgian cyclo-cross rider also nestles in the top ten: Laura Verdonschot cashed in her regular season and nice apotheosis with 32,685 euros, which amounts to only a good 30% of Alvarado’s cumulative amount. Belgian champion Sanne Cant is seventeenth with 20,680 euros, Marion Norbert Riberolle nineteenth with 15,425 euros.