1994 Tour de France

The 1994 Tour de France was the 81st edition, opening on 2 July with a 7.2 km prologue in Lille and ending 21 days of racing later on the Champs-Élysées. Twenty-one teams started and Miguel Induráin won, becoming the third rider to win four consecutive Tours; the Latvian Piotr Ugrumov was second and Marco Pantani third. Chris Boardman took the first yellow jersey by winning the prologue, lost it to Johan Museeuw when Museeuw's team won the stage 3 team time trial, and Flavio Vanzella then led as the race crossed to Great Britain, followed for a day by Sean Yates and again by Museeuw. Induráin took the lead in the stage 9 time trial and defended it through the Alps and Pyrenees to Paris. Djamolidine Abdoujaparov won the points classification.