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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | ||
| 21 | 10 | ||
| 1 | 0 | ||
| 1 | 0 | ||
| 7 | 6 | 1 (Nelson Rodríguez) | |
| 5 | 4 | 3 (Bo Hamburger, Bjarne Riis, Rolf Sørensen) | |
| 1 | 0 | ||
| 33 | 20 | 4 (Jacky Durand, Luc Leblanc, Richard Virenque, Eddy Seigneur) | |
| 9 | 8 | ||
| 45 | 25 | 4 (Nicola Minali, Gianluca Bortolami, Eros Poli, Roberto Conti) | |
| 1 | 1 | 2 (Piotr Ugrumov ×2) | |
| 1 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 15 | 6 | 1 (Jean-Paul van Poppel) | |
| 1 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | ||
| 6 | 4 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 1 (Ján Svorada) | |
| 19 | 13 | 2 (Francisco Cabello, Miguel Induráin) | |
| 6 | 5 | ||
| 2 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 1 | 1 (Chris Boardman) | |
| 3 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 2 (Djamolidine Abdoujaparov ×2) | |
| Total | 189 | 117 | 21 [nb 1] |