Tour de France 2016: Winner, Prize Money, Final Standings After Stage 21 Results

Team Sky's Chris Froome became the first rider since Miguel Indurain to defend his Tour de France crown on Sunday, surviving Stage 21 to Paris to win the 2016 edition of the iconic race. Lotto-Soudal's Andre Greipel took the stage win, his first of this year's Tour. 

As usual, the final stage to Paris ended in a bunch sprint, while Froome and his Team Sky team-mates focused on smiling for the cameras and avoiding last-minute drama. It's the Kenyan's third Tour win in the last four years.

Indurain won five straight Tours between 1991 and 1995, and since then, no winner had managed to repeat the feat the following year until Froome―with the exception of Lance Armstrong, who had his wins revoked.

Here's a look at the results from the last stage, via the Inner Ring:

Here's the final general classification, complete with prize-money payouts:

Pos	Rider	Prize Money
1	Chris Froome, Team Sky	€500,000
2	Romain Bardet, AG2R	€200,000
3	Nairo Quintana, Movistar	€100,000
4	Adam Yates, Orica-BikeExchange	€70,000
5	Richie Porte, BMC	€50,000

For a full breakdown of the prize money, click here.

Recap

The final stage of the Tour de France never truly kicks off until the riders arrive in Paris, which gives the jersey winners the opportunity to pose for photos and drink champagne with their team-mates.

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Third-place finisher Nairo Quintana of Movistar took position at the front of the peloton to congratulate Froome and have a little chat with the yellow jersey. Tinkoff's Peter Sagan, who has now won the green jersey for five straight years, also spent some time with the Kenyan.

Tinkoff's Rafal Majka and Orica-BikeExchange's Adam Yates completed the list of jersey winners, with the former finishing in the polka-dot jersey and the latter winning the youngsters' qualification. Yates became the first Englishman to win the white jersey. AG2R's Romain Bardet was also spotted near the front offering his congratulations.

Team Sky swapped their standard blue-lined kits for yellow ones, as shared by team-rider Elia Viviani, and instead of champagne, the riders toted bottles of beer:

Froome thanked his team-mates for their hard work by delivering the beers himself, becoming a domestique for the final stage. Champagne followed, as Sky predictably had no interest in the stage win. ITV Cycling wondered what was next:

Greipel suffered a puncture before the pack reached Paris, but the pace of the peloton remained low, and he easily returned. The peloton allowed the retiring Joaquim "Purito" Rodriguez of Katusha to lead them onto the finishing circuit, before the stage truly started.

The Tour's official Twitter account shared footage of Purito passing the finish line on his own:

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1er passage sur la ligne d'arrivée ! / 1st lap on the Champs-Elysées Purito >> Peloton #TDF2016 https://t.co/y4ZUC9vP6k

— Le Tour de France (@LeTour) July 24, 2016"

Eight riders eventually formed a break, but the peloton kept their lead under half a minute, and that wasn't nearly enough to survive until the finish line. Etixx-Quick-Step's Marcel Kittel needed a bike change, which cost him valuable time, but all in all, the peloton survived comfortably.

Everyone was caught entering the final lap, and the sprint teams started their push early. A crash forced a split in the peloton and took Bryan Coquard of Direct Energie out of contention, while Lotto-Soudal took the lead for Greipel. The German just beat Sagan to the line, finally winning his first stage of this year's Tour.

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In the background, Froome and his Sky team-mates linked arms and crossed the finish line together.

Per Andrew Hood of Velonews, Froome said he will now turn his focus toward the upcoming Summer Olympics and might try his hand at the Vuelta as well:

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I am hoping to do the time trial at the Olympic Games. It’s a course that suits me well. With 1000m of climbing, and almost 60km, it’s suits me. I took bronze in London, and it would be incredible to medal again.

I’m looking for recover after this race. I think I’ll ride RideLondon next Sunday as a one-day race before we fly to Rio, and then we’ll be there for a week before [the road race], to look at the roads and start training again.

Right now, I might do the Vuelta this year. As it stands, with my focus on the Tour, it’s difficult to commit to the Giro. It’s difficult to back up two grand tours like that. I’ve given a lot of thought to do the Vuelta this year.

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Froome joins Greg LeMond, Louison Bobet and Philippe Thys on the list of riders who have won the Tour three times, and he's still two wins shy of a share of the record, which is held by cycling greats Eddy Merckx, Indurain, Bernard Hinault and Jacques Anquetil.

Catching those four will be tricky, but given Froome's dominant showing in 2016, there's every reason to believe he will be able to repeat next year.