The 1991 Tour de France started with 198 cyclists, divided into 22 teams of 9 cyclists. [1] Sixteen teams qualified by being ranked in the top 16 of the FICP ranking for teams in May 1991: [2]
Qualified teams
Invited teams
| No. | Starting number worn by the rider during the Tour |
| Pos. | Position in the general classification |
| DNF | Denotes a rider who did not finish |
| Country | No. of riders | Finishers | Stage wins |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | 1 (Phil Anderson) | |
| 1 | 1 | 1 (Mauro Ribeiro) | |
| 27 | 18 | 1 (Etienne De Wilde) | |
| 1 | 1 | ||
| 11 | 10 | ||
| 8 | 4 | ||
| 41 | 39 | 5 (Thierry Marie ×2, Charly Mottet ×2, Thierry Claveyrolat) | |
| 10 | 7 | ||
| 2 | 1 | ||
| 4 | 1 | ||
| 21 | 18 | 5 (Claudio Chiappucci, Bruno Cenghialta, Moreno Argentin, Marco Lietti, Gianni Bugno) | |
| 1 | 0 | ||
| 18 | 13 | 2 (Jelle Nijdam, Jean-Paul van Poppel) | |
| 4 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 1 | ||
| 7 | 7 | 5 (Djamolidine Abdoujaparov ×2, Dimitri Konyshev ×2, Viatcheslav Ekimov) | |
| 24 | 21 | 2 (Miguel Indurain ×2) | |
| 10 | 9 | ||
| 5 | 4 | ||
| Total | 198 | 158 | 22 [nb 1] |