The 1986 Tour de France was the 73rd edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours . The Tour began in Boulogne-Billancourt on 4 July and finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 23 July. In June, 23 teams had requested to start in the 1986 Tour. [ 1 ] The Tour direction accepted 21 applications, so a total of 21 teams participated in the 1986 Tour de France. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The two teams whose application was denied were Skala-Skil and Miko. [ 1 ] Each team sent a squad of ten riders, which meant that the race would start with a peloton of 210 cyclists, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] a record setting total. [ 4 ] From the 210 riders that began this edition, 132 made it to the finish in Paris. [ 5 ] 7-Eleven became the Tour's first team from the United States, with a squad consisting of eight Americans, one Canadian and one Mexican. [ 6 ] [ 2 ] Jim Ochowicz , 7-Eleven 's founder and manager, met with the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) and persuaded them to invite his team. In the Spring, the team withdrew from competition in Europe (missing the opportunity to become the first American team in the history of the Vuelta a España ) due to the United States conflict with Libya , losing out on much needed competitive racing unavailable in the United States. [ 7 ] Carrera Jeans–Vagabond Panasonic–Merckx–Agu PDM–Ultima–Concorde Café de Colombia–Varta Kwantum–Decosol–Yoko Joker–Emerxil–Merckx Hitachi–Robland RMO–Cycles Méral–Mavic Postobón–Manzana–Ryalcao Malvor–Bottecchia–Sidi By starting number The 210 riders that competed in the 1986 Tour de France were represented by 20 different countries. ↑ The team time trial on stage 2, won by Système U , is not counted in this total. 1 2 Ceulen, Bennie (11 June 1986). "Levitan weigert ploeg Kuiper voor de Tour" . Limburgsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Koninklijke Bibliotheek. p. 27 . Retrieved 29 December 2013 . 1 2 3 "The starters" . The history of the Tour de France . Issy-les-Moulineaux, France: Amaury Sport Organisation . Archived from the original on 7 July 2012 . Retrieved 20 November 2013 . 1 2 "73ème Tour de France 1986" (in French). Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 28 August 2012 . Retrieved 20 November 2013 . ↑ Dauncey, Hugh; Hare, Geoff (2003). The Tour de France, 1903–2003: A Century of Sporting Structures, Meanings and Values . London: Frank Cass & Co . p. 214. ISBN 978-0-203-50241-9 .

↑ "Stage 23 Cosne > Paris" . The history of the Tour de France . Issy-les-Moulineaux, France: Amaury Sport Organisation . Archived from the original on 9 July 2012 . Retrieved 20 November 2013 . ↑ McGann, Bill; McGann, Carol (2008). The Story of the Tour de France: 1965–2007 . Vol. 2. Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing. p. 163. ISBN 978-1-59858-608-4 . ↑ "American invasion of the Tour de France" . Cyclingnews.com . 13 July 2008 . Retrieved 6 May 2015 . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 "73ème Tour de France 1986" . Memoire du cyclisme . Archived from the original on 28 May 2011. ↑ "The Tour, Year 1986, Stage 12 Bayonne > Pau" . Tour de France . Amaury Sport Organisation. Archived from the original on 2 September 2016 . Retrieved 18 July 2016 . ↑ "Clasificaciones Oficiales" [ Official Classifications ] . El mundo Deportivo (in Spanish) . Retrieved 18 July 2016 . ↑ "La Vie Claire 1986" . Cycling archives . Archived from the original on 8 November 2012 . Retrieved 18 July 2016 . ↑ "Kas 1986" . Cycling Archives . Archived from the original on 5 November 2012 . Retrieved 18 July 2016 . Teams and cyclists Prologue–Stage 11 1986 Tour de France Tour de France squads Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Use British English from November 2019 All Wikipedia articles written in British English Use dmy dates from November 2019 CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl) CS1 French-language sources (fr) CS1 Spanish-language sources (es)