But this is a sport with large economic differences and the salary of most professional mountain bikers is far from those numbers.Ībysmal economic differences between MTB and road cycling To complete the figures, rumors place between 100,000 and 200,000 the salaries of the best World Cup riders or winners of titles such as the European or World Championships. Kate Courtney confirmed what many of us suspected: winning a World Championship increases your salary. The separation between Aaron Gwin and Specialized was one of the most talked-about breakups in MTB due to financial differences.Īs we say, there are few data confirmed by the protagonists themselves, but the media was able to extract some words on the subject from Thomas Frischknecht, manager of the SCOTT SRAM team, and he confirmed that: " the best earn more than 500,000, including personal sponsorship". No comment was made on what Nino Schurter earns. We'd bet that there would be more than enough fingers on one hand to count the riders in that group. But that could be the figure around which the salaries of the most elite mountain bikers move, between half a million and a million euros, both in DH and XCO. It doesn't look like Gwin is getting paid that amount now, years after his best DH World Cup results. In a video released by RedBull in 2020, downhill legend Aaron Gwin claimed that in a good year, he could be collecting around $1 million, taking into account all the prize money for winning races and personal sponsorships, on top of his primary contract with the team. How much do the highest paid mountain bikers earn? But in MTB these data are harder to come by as the protagonists rarely talk about it, and even less often do they give concrete figures. The salaries of the highest paid road cyclists is a recurring topic every season and the information about it is quite accurate.
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