foto: Cor VosWho’ll succeed Richard Carapaz as the winner of the mountains classification of the Tour de France? Last year, the Ecuadorian won the polka dot jersey ahead of Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard.
You can follow the fight for the polka dot jersey from Saturday, 5 July, when the first KOM points are awarded in the Lille stage.
The distribution of points in the Tour is as follows:
HC-category: 20 – 15 – 12 – 10 – 8 – 6 – 4 – 2
1st-category: 10 – 8 – 6 – 4 – 2 – 1
2nd-category: 5 – 3 – 2 – 1
3rd-category: 2 – 1
4th-category: 1
Another interesting read: winners KOM classification at the Tour de France from 2000 onward.