{"id":16912,"date":"2017-11-14T13:34:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/uncategorized\/challengefamily-provided-professional-athletes-with-e140-000-end-of-season-bonus\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T15:46:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T15:46:58","slug":"challengefamily-provided-professional-athletes-with-e140-000-end-of-season-bonus","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/news\/challengefamily-provided-professional-athletes-with-e140-000-end-of-season-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"CHALLENGE FAMILY provided professional athletes with \u20ac140.000 end-of-season bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ten athletes got to share the lucrative prize pot and have given a thumbs up to the bonus system.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the end of our European <strong>CHALLENGE<\/strong>FAMILY season and with that comes the sharing of the pro athlete bonus of \u20ac140.000 in total. The best five male and best five female pro athletes received \u20ac25k (winner), \u20ac17k (second), \u20ac13k (third), \u20ac10k (fourth) and \u20ac5k (fifth).<\/p>\n<p>These pro athlete bonuses are above and beyond the regular prize money athletes can win at the Challenge Family races. The European Bonus System provides extra motivation for pro athletes to race more Challenge Events and earn crucial points throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p>The end of the season delivered us two male winners. Both Joe Skipper (GBR) and Lukas Kr\u00e4mer (GER) ended up with 1040 points. They were both rewarded with \u20ac21k (25 + 17 and then shared in two).\u00a0 Pieter Heemeryck (BEL) finished in third with 985 points and \u20ac13k, Thomas Steger (AUT) finished in fourth with 900 points and \u20ac10k while German Jan Raphael ended up fifth with 800 points and \u20ac5k\u00a0 prize money.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Joe Skipper had nothing but great things to say about the European Bonus System.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Challenge series is a great season long competition with great contenders throughout and a decent prize pot. The events are fantastic in themselves and for pro&#8217;s looking to make a living from the sport I really recommend giving the events a go.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Also Lukas Kr\u00e4mer does like the European Bonus System very much: &#8220;The Bonus System is a great reward for athletes that perform on a good level throughout a whole season. As it&#8217;s a series, you can compensate a bad race with some good performances and still have a chance of finishing on top of the ranking. Also it is great fun to meet the same athletes multiple times in a season, compare results and try to calculate the following ranking based on different positions and scenarios. I think it&#8217;s a great incentive to race these events and a great oppurtunity to have a shot at a bonus on top of regular prize purses.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The women\u2019s competition was an incredibly close affair and wasn\u2019t decided until the final race in Sardinia.. At the end Yvonne van Vlerken (NED) was the strongest and most consistent over the season finishing up with a total of 1350 points. Van Vlerken raced a total of seven Challenge Events throughout the season including Challenge Rimini, Challenge Roth, Challenge Prague, Challenge Turku, Challenge Almere-Amsterdam, Challenge Paguera and Challenge Sardinia and was rewarded with \u20ac25k.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis system with points and where ten athletes are being rewarded with bonuses, is really great. I see a lot of new, talented athletes at the starting lines of Challenge-races because they all want to share in the prize money. So that means more and better participants in each race. That&#8217;s amazing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Behind Van Vlerken, Laura Siddall (GBR) finished second with 1340 points and \u20ac17k while Sofie Goos (BEL) finished in third with 1150 points and \u20ac13k. Canadian Heather Wurtele was fourth with 1125 points and \u20ac10k prize money and Lucy Charles (GBR) was fifth with 1075 points and the remaining \u20ac5k.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information on the European End-of-Season Bonus-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHALLENGEFAMILY introduced a professional athlete bonus scheme to it\u2019s European races. The initiative provides professional athletes with the opportunity to race for a share of a \u20ac140,000 end-of-season bonus.<\/p>\n<p>The \u20ac140k bonus pays five deep across both men and women with the top ranked pro taking home \u20ac25k, second will earn \u20ac17k. third will earn \u20ac13k, fourth \u20ac10k and fifth \u20ac5k. Ranking is decided through a points system based on placings earned at Challenge Events in Europe throughout the season. Athletes are only able to count their best six CHALLENGEFAMILY races during the season, of which no more than two can be full distance races<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten athletes got to share the lucrative prize pot and have given a thumbs up to the bonus system. &nbsp; It&#8217;s the end of our European CHALLENGEFAMILY season and with that comes the sharing of the pro athlete bonus of \u20ac140.000 in total. 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