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 |
---|---|---|---|
Australia | 2 | 2 | 1 (Phil Anderson) |
Brazil | 1 | 1 | 1 (Mauro Ribeiro) |
Belgium | 27 | 18 | 1 (Etienne De Wilde) |
Canada | 1 | 1 | |
Colombia | 11 | 10 | |
Denmark | 8 | 4 | |
France | 41 | 39 | 5 (Thierry Marie ×2, Charly Mottet ×2, Thierry Claveyrolat) |
Germany | 10 | 7 | |
Great Britain | 2 | 1 | |
Ireland | 4 | 1 | |
Italy | 21 | 18 | 5 (Claudio Chiappucci, Bruno Cenghialta, Moreno Argentin, Marco Lietti, Gianni Bugno) |
Mexico | 1 | 0 | |
Netherlands | 18 | 13 | 2 (Jelle Nijdam, Jean-Paul van Poppel) |
Norway | 4 | 1 | |
Slovenia | 1 | 1 | |
Soviet Union | 7 | 7 | 5 (Djamolidine Abdoujaparov ×2, Dimitri Konyshev ×2, Viatcheslav Ekimov) |
Spain | 24 | 21 | 2 (Miguel Indurain ×2) |
Switzerland | 10 | 9 | |
United States | 5 | 4 | |
Total | 198 | 158 | 22 [nb 1] |
The 1991 Tour de France was the 78th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 6 to 28 July. The total race distance was 22 stages over 3,914 km (2,432 mi). The race was won by Miguel Induráin, whose Banesto team also won the team classification. The points classification was won by Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, although he almost crashed out in the final stage. The mountains classification was won by Claudio Chiappucci, and the young rider classification by Álvaro Mejía.
The 1991 Tour de France was the 78th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Lyon with a prologue individual time trial on 6 July and Stage 11 occurred on 16 July with a flat stage to Saint-Herblain. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 28 July.
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