A total of 21 teams were invited to participate in the 1994 Tour de France. Fifteen teams were announced in May, based on their UCI ranking: [1]
The Jolly-team of Zenon Jaskuła, who had finished in third place in the 1993 Tour de France, was not selected. [2] Each team sent a squad of nine riders, so the Tour began with a peloton of 189 cyclists. Out of the 189 riders that started this edition of the Tour de France, a total of 117 riders made it to the finish in Paris. [3]
Qualified teams
Invited teams
No. | Starting number worn by the rider during the Tour |
---|---|
Pos. | Position in the general classification |
Time | Deficit to the winner of the general classification |
Denotes the winner of the general classification | |
Denotes the winner of the points classification | |
Denotes the winner of the mountains classification | |
Denotes the winner of the team classification | |
Denotes the winner of the combativity award | |
DNF | Denotes a rider who did not finish |
NP | Denotes a rider who was a non-participant |
AB | Denotes a rider who abandoned |
EL | Denotes a rider who was eliminated |
HD | Denotes a rider who was outside the time limit (French: Hors Delai) |
Age correct as of 2 July 1994, the date on which the Tour began |
The 189 riders that competed in the 1994 Tour de France represented 25 different countries. Riders from ten countries won stages during the race; French and Italian riders won the largest number of stages.
Country | No. of riders | Finishers | Stage wins |
---|---|---|---|
Australia | 3 | 3 | |
Belgium | 21 | 10 | |
Brazil | 1 | 0 | |
Canada | 1 | 0 | |
Colombia | 7 | 6 | 1 (Nelson Rodríguez) |
Denmark | 5 | 4 | 3 (Bo Hamburger, Bjarne Riis, Rolf Sørensen) |
Estonia | 1 | 0 | |
France | 33 | 20 | 4 (Jacky Durand, Luc Leblanc, Richard Virenque, Eddy Seigneur) |
Germany | 9 | 8 | |
Italy | 45 | 25 | 4 (Nicola Minali, Gianluca Bortolami, Eros Poli, Roberto Conti) |
Latvia | 1 | 1 | 2 (Piotr Ugrumov ×2) |
Lithuania | 1 | 1 | |
Mexico | 2 | 2 | |
Netherlands | 15 | 6 | 1 (Jean-Paul van Poppel) |
New Zealand | 1 | 1 | |
Norway | 2 | 2 | |
Poland | 1 | 1 | |
Russia | 6 | 4 | |
Slovakia | 1 | 1 | 1 (Ján Svorada) |
Spain | 19 | 13 | 2 (Francisco Cabello, Miguel Induráin) |
Switzerland | 6 | 5 | |
Ukraine | 2 | 1 | |
Great Britain | 2 | 1 | 1 (Chris Boardman) |
United States | 3 | 1 | |
Uzbekistan | 1 | 1 | 2 (Djamolidine Abdoujaparov ×2) |
Total | 189 | 117 | 21 [nb 1] |
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