All top athletes leave with a nice bonus after a victory in their sports! As at the Tour de France or Roland Garros, the best runners of the Paris Marathon will leave with some money in their pocket, after their arrival on the Avenue Foch. Depending on their ranking, the professional athletes will be rewarded according to their performance, always very impressive. They are few in number, considering the number of brave runners who attempt the event, but fifteen of them are entitled to a prize.
The Paris Marathon, which takes place this Sunday, April 2, 2023, has a total prize fund of 500,000 euros. The winner gets 50,000 euros, and the 15th place runner gets 500 euros. The rest of the money is divided among the runners, according to their ranking. If the maximum sum seems large, it is normal, because the winners are generally high level athletes, whose job it is. The prize money from the races allows them to live off their sport all year round. Concerning women, only 10 of them are rewarded.
It is therefore necessary to think of accelerating to achieve the feat of finishing in the first fifteen! Moreover, it is very rare that a runner wins more than twice the race in his career, considering its difficulty, the best prize almost never goes to the same person several times.
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