1994 UCI Road World Cup

The 1994 UCI Road World Cup was the sixth edition of the UCI Road World Cup. It was won surprisingly by Italian classics specialist Gianluca Bortolami of the Mapei–CLAS team, after a summer exploit ahed of Johan Museeuw and Andrei Tchmil, who lost a big lead built after the spring races.^[1]

1994 UCI Road World Cup

Sixth edition of the UCI Road World Cup
Details
Dates	28 March – 21 October
Location	Europe
Races	10
Champions
Individual champion	Gianluca Bortolami (ITA) (Mapei–CLAS)
Teams' champion	Mapei–CLAS
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Races

Date	Race	Country	Winner	Team	World Cup Leader	Leader's Team	Report
19 March	Milan–San Remo	Italy	Giorgio Furlan (ITA)	Gewiss–Ballan	Giorgio Furlan (ITA)	Gewiss–Ballan	Report
3 April	Tour of Flanders	Belgium	Gianni Bugno (ITA)	Team Polti–Vaporetto	Gianni Bugno (ITA)	Team Polti–Vaporetto	Report
10 April	Paris–Roubaix	France	Andrei Tchmil (MDA)	Lotto	Andrei Tchmil (MDA)	Lotto	Report
17 April	Liège–Bastogne–Liège	Belgium	Evgeni Berzin (RUS)	Gewiss–Ballan	Andrei Tchmil (MDA)	Lotto	Report
23 April	Amstel Gold Race	Netherlands	Johan Museeuw (BEL)	GB–MG Maglificio	Andrei Tchmil (MDA)	Lotto	Report
6 August	Clásica de San Sebastián	Spain	Armand de Las Cuevas (FRA)	Castorama	Andrei Tchmil (MDA)	Lotto	Report
14 August	Leeds International Classic	Great Britain	Gianluca Bortolami (ITA)	Mapei–CLAS	Andrei Tchmil (MDA)	Lotto	Report
21 August	Züri-Metzgete	Switzerland	Gianluca Bortolami (ITA)	Mapei–CLAS	Johan Museeuw (BEL)	GB–MG Maglificio	Report
2 October	Paris–Tours	France	Erik Zabel (GER)	Team Telekom	Gianluca Bortolami (ITA)	Mapei–CLAS	Report
8 October	Giro di Lombardia	Italy	Vladislav Bobrik (RUS)	Gewiss–Ballan	Gianluca Bortolami (ITA)	Mapei–CLAS	Report

Single races details

Denotes the Classification Leader

In the race results the leader jersey identify the rider who wore the jersey in the race (the leader at the start of the race).

In the general classification table the jersey identify the leader after the race.

19 March 1994 — Milan–San Remo 294 km (182.7 mi)[2] Rider Team Time 1  Giorgio Furlan (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan 7h 05' 20" 2  Mario Cipollini (ITA) Mercatone Uno–Medeghini + 20" 3  Adriano Baffi (ITA) Mercatone Uno–Medeghini s.t. 4  Stefano Zanini (ITA) Navigare–Blue Storm s.t. 5  Kai Hundertmarck (GER) Motorola s.t. 6  Fabio Baldato (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio s.t. 7  Ángel Edo (ESP) Kelme–Avianca–Gios s.t. 8  Fabiano Fontanelli (ITA) ZG Mobili s.t. 9  Andrei Tchmil (MDA) Lotto s.t. 10  Laurent Jalabert (FRA) ONCE s.t.

General classification after Milan–San Remo[3] Rider Team Points 1  Giorgio Furlan (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan 50 2  Mario Cipollini (ITA) Mercatone Uno–Medeghini 35 3  Adriano Baffi (ITA) Mercatone Uno–Medeghini 25 4  Stefano Zanini (ITA) Navigare–Blue Storm 20 5  Kai Hundertmarck (GER) Motorola 18 6  Fabio Baldato (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio 16 7  Ángel Edo (ESP) Kelme–Avianca–Gios 14 8  Fabiano Fontanelli (ITA) ZG Mobili 12 9  Andrei Tchmil (MDA) Lotto 10 10  Laurent Jalabert (FRA) ONCE 8

3 April 1994 — Tour of Flanders 268 km (166.5 mi) Rider Team Time 1  Gianni Bugno (ITA) Team Polti–Vaporetto 6h 45' 20" 2  Johan Museeuw (BEL) GB–MG Maglificio s.t. 3  Andrei Tchmil (MDA) Lotto s.t. 4  Franco Ballerini (ITA) Mapei–CLAS s.t. 5  Johan Capiot (BEL) TVM–Bison Kit + 1' 11" 6  Fabio Baldato (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio + 1' 54" 7  Guido Bontempi (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan s.t. 8  Marc Sergeant (BEL) Novemail–Histor–Laser Computer s.t. 9  Edwig Van Hooydonck (BEL) WordPerfect–Colnago–Decca s.t. 10  Frank Corvers (BEL) Collstrop–Willy Naessens s.t.

General classification after Tour of Flanders Rider Team Points 1  Gianni Bugno (ITA) Team Polti–Vaporetto 50 2  Giorgio Furlan (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan 50 3  Johan Museeuw (BEL) GB–MG Maglificio 40 4  Mario Cipollini (ITA) Mercatone Uno–Medeghini 35 5  Andrei Tchmil (MDA) Lotto 35 6  Fabio Baldato (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio 32 7  Adriano Baffi (ITA) Mercatone Uno–Medeghini 25 8  Franco Ballerini (ITA) Mapei–CLAS 20 8  Stefano Zanini (ITA) Navigare–Blue Storm 20 10  Johan Capiot (BEL) TVM–Bison Kit 18 10  Kai Hundertmarck (GER) Motorola 18

10 April 1994 — Paris–Roubaix 270 km (167.8 mi) Rider Team Time 1  Andrei Tchmil (MDA) Lotto 7h 28' 02" 2  Fabio Baldato (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio + 1' 13" 3  Franco Ballerini (ITA) Mapei–CLAS s.t. 4  Olaf Ludwig (GER) Team Telekom + 1' 26" 5  Sean Yates (GBR) Motorola s.t. 6  Johan Capiot (BEL) TVM–Bison Kit s.t. 7  Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (FRA) GAN s.t. 8  Ludwig Willems (BEL) GB–MG Maglificio + 1' 31" 9  Frankie Andreu (USA) Motorola + 4' 14" 10  Nico Verhoeven (NED) Novemail–Histor–Laser Computer s.t.

General classification after Paris–Roubaix Rider Team Points 1  Andrei Tchmil (MDA) Lotto 85 2  Fabio Baldato (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio 67 3  Gianni Bugno (ITA) Team Polti–Vaporetto 50 4  Giorgio Furlan (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan 50 5  Franco Ballerini (ITA) Mapei–CLAS 45 6  Johan Museeuw (BEL) GB–MG Maglificio 40 7  Mario Cipollini (ITA) Mercatone Uno–Medeghini 35 8  Johan Capiot (BEL) TVM–Bison Kit 34 9  Adriano Baffi (ITA) Mercatone Uno–Medeghini 25 10  Olaf Ludwig (GER) Team Telekom 20 10  Stefano Zanini (ITA) Navigare–Blue Storm 20

17 April 1994 — Liège–Bastogne–Liège 268.5 km (166.8 mi) Rider Team Time 1  Evgeni Berzin (RUS) Gewiss–Ballan 7h 16' 30" 2  Lance Armstrong (USA) Motorola + 1' 37" 3  Giorgio Furlan (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan s.t. 4  Claudio Chiappucci (ITA) Carrera Jeans–Tassoni s.t. 5  Stefano Della Santa (ITA) Mapei–CLAS s.t. 6  Tony Rominger (SUI) Mapei–CLAS + 2' 03" 7  Max Sciandri (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio + 5' 38" 8  Marco Saligari (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio + 5' 42" 9  Bruno Cenghialta (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan + 5' 52" 10  Alberto Elli (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio + 5' 58"

General classification after Liège–Bastogne–Liège Rider Team Points 1  Andrei Tchmil (MDA) Lotto 91 2  Giorgio Furlan (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan 75 3  Fabio Baldato (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio 67 4  Evgeni Berzin (RUS) Gewiss–Ballan 50 5  Gianni Bugno (ITA) Team Polti–Vaporetto 50 6  Franco Ballerini (ITA) Mapei–CLAS 50 7  Johan Museeuw (BEL) GB–MG Maglificio 40 8  Lance Armstrong (USA) Motorola 35 9  Mario Cipollini (ITA) Mercatone Uno–Medeghini 35 10  Johan Capiot (BEL) TVM–Bison Kit 34

23 April 1994 — Amstel Gold Race 250 km (155.3 mi) Rider Team Time 1  Johan Museeuw (BEL) GB–MG Maglificio 6h 42' 34" 2  Bruno Cenghialta (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan s.t. 3  Marco Saligari (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio + 7" 4  Alberto Volpi (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan s.t. 5  Davide Rebellin (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio s.t. 6  Steven Rooks (NED) TVM–Bison Kit s.t. 7  Claudio Chiappucci (ITA) Carrera Jeans–Tassoni s.t. 8  Gérard Rué (FRA) Banesto s.t. 9  Richard Virenque (FRA) Festina–Lotus s.t. 10  Didier Rous (FRA) GAN s.t.

General classification after Amstel Gold Race Rider Team Points 1  Andrei Tchmil (MDA) Lotto 97 2  Johan Museeuw (BEL) GB–MG Maglificio 90 3  Giorgio Furlan (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan 75 4  Fabio Baldato (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio 67 5  Evgeni Berzin (RUS) Gewiss–Ballan 50 6  Gianni Bugno (ITA) Team Polti–Vaporetto 50 7  Franco Ballerini (ITA) Mapei–CLAS 50 8  Bruno Cenghialta (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan 45 9  Marco Saligari (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio 37 10  Mario Cipollini (ITA) Mercatone Uno–Medeghini 35

6 August 1994 — Clásica de San Sebastián 238 km (147.9 mi)[4] Rider Team Time 1  Armand de Las Cuevas (FRA) Castorama 5h 24' 44" 2  Lance Armstrong (USA) Motorola + 1' 56" 3  Stefano Della Santa (ITA) Mapei–CLAS + 1' 57" 4  Vladimir Poulnikov (UKR) Carrera Jeans–Tassoni + 2' 03" 5  Andrei Tchmil (MDA) Lotto + 2' 09" 6  Gianluca Bortolami (ITA) Mapei–CLAS + 2' 09" 7  Pello Ruiz Cabestany (ESP) Euskadi–Petronor + 2' 09" 8  José Ramón Uriarte (ESP) Banesto + 2' 09" 9  Ángel Edo (ESP) Kelme–Avianca–Gios + 2' 09" 10  Gianni Bugno (ITA) Team Polti–Vaporetto + 2' 09"

General classification after Clásica de San Sebastián[5] Rider Team Points 1  Andrei Tchmil (MDA) Lotto 115 2  Johan Museeuw (BEL) GB–MG Maglificio 90 3  Giorgio Furlan (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan 75 4  Lance Armstrong (USA) Motorola 70 5  Fabio Baldato (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio 67 6  Gianni Bugno (ITA) Team Polti–Vaporetto 58 7  Armand de Las Cuevas (FRA) Castorama 50 8  Evgeni Berzin (RUS) Gewiss–Ballan 50 9  Franco Ballerini (ITA) Mapei–CLAS 50 10  Bruno Cenghialta (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan 45

14 August 1994 — Leeds International Classic 231 km (143.5 mi)[6] Rider Team Time 1  Gianluca Bortolami (ITA) Mapei–CLAS 6h 03' 29" 2  Viatcheslav Ekimov (RUS) WordPerfect–Colnago–Decca s.t. 3  Bo Hamburger (DEN) TVM–Bison Kit + 11" 4  Frankie Andreu (USA) Motorola s.t. 5  Laurent Dufaux (SUI) ONCE s.t. 6  Massimo Ghirotto (ITA) ZG Mobili s.t. 7  Max Sciandri (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio s.t. 8  Gianni Faresin (ITA) Lampre–Panaria s.t. 9  Stephen Swart (NZL) Motorola s.t. 10  Flavio Vanzella (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio +15"

General classification after Leeds International Classic Rider Team Points 1  Andrei Tchmil (MDA) Lotto 115 2  Johan Museeuw (BEL) GB–MG Maglificio 90 3  Giorgio Furlan (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan 75 4  Lance Armstrong (USA) Motorola 70 5  Fabio Baldato (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio 67 6  Gianluca Bortolami (ITA) Mapei–CLAS 66 7  Gianni Bugno (ITA) Team Polti–Vaporetto 58 8  Armand de Las Cuevas (FRA) Castorama 50 9  Evgeni Berzin (RUS) Gewiss–Ballan 50 10  Franco Ballerini (ITA) Mapei–CLAS 50

20 August 1994 — Züri-Metzgete 243.6 km (151.4 mi) Rider Team Time 1  Gianluca Bortolami (ITA) Mapei–CLAS 6h 14' 11" 2  Johan Museeuw (BEL) GB–MG Maglificio s.t. 3  Maurizio Fondriest (ITA) Lampre–Panaria s.t. 4  Claudio Chiappucci (ITA) Carrera Jeans–Tassoni s.t. 5  Bjarne Riis (DEN) Gewiss–Ballan s.t. 6  Felice Puttini (SUI) Brescialat–Ceramiche Refin s.t. 7  Pascal Richard (SUI) GB–MG Maglificio s.t. 8  Giorgio Furlan (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan s.t. 9  Lance Armstrong (USA) Motorola s.t. 10  Francesco Casagrande (ITA) Mercatone Uno–Medeghini s.t.

General classification after Züri-Metzgete[7] Rider Team Points 1  Johan Museeuw (BEL) GB–MG Maglificio 125 2  Gianluca Bortolami (ITA) Mapei–CLAS 116 3  Andrei Tchmil (MDA) Lotto 115 4  Giorgio Furlan (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan 87 5  Lance Armstrong (USA) Motorola 80 6 7 8 9 10 The first five riders rode at least the minimum races to be classified. No sourced information for other positions.

2 October 1994 — Paris–Tours 250 km (155.3 mi) Rider Team Time 1  Erik Zabel (GER) Team Telekom 6h 15' 37" 2  Gianluca Bortolami (ITA) Mapei–CLAS s.t. 3  Zbigniew Spruch (POL) Lampre–Panaria s.t. 4  Mario Cipollini (ITA) Mercatone Uno–Medeghini s.t. 5  Adri van der Poel (NED) Collstrop–Willy Naessens s.t. 6  Steve Bauer (CAN) Motorola s.t. 7  Giovanni Fidanza (ITA) Team Polti–Vaporetto s.t. 8  Laurent Jalabert (FRA) ONCE s.t. 9  Wilfried Nelissen (BEL) Novemail–Histor–Laser Computer s.t. 10  Martin van Steen (NED) TVM–Bison Kit s.t.

General classification after Paris–Tours[8] Rider Team Points 1  Gianluca Bortolami (ITA) Mapei–CLAS 151 2  Johan Museeuw (BEL) GB–MG Maglificio 125 3  Andrei Tchmil (MDA) Lotto 115 4  Giorgio Furlan (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan 87 5  Lance Armstrong (USA) Motorola 80 6 7 8 9 10 The first five riders rode at least the minimum races to be classified. No sourced information for other positions.

8 October 1994 — Giro di Lombardia 244 km (151.6 mi) Rider Team Time 1  Vladislav Bobrik (RUS) Gewiss–Ballan 6h 03' 21" 2  Claudio Chiappucci (ITA) Carrera Jeans–Tassoni + 2" 3  Pascal Richard (SUI) GB–MG Maglificio + 3" 4  Dimitri Konyshev (RUS) Jolly Componibili–Cage + 25" 5  Maurizio Fondriest (ITA) Lampre–Panaria s.t. 6  Davide Cassani (ITA) GB–MG Maglificio s.t. 7  Bjarne Riis (DEN) Gewiss–Ballan + 30" 8  Udo Bölts (GER) Team Telekom s.t. 9  Mauro Gianetti (SUI) Mapei–CLAS s.t. 10  Maarten den Bakker (NED) TVM–Bison Kit + 36"

General classification after Giro di Lombardia[9] Rider Team Points 1  Gianluca Bortolami (ITA) Mapei–CLAS 151 2  Johan Museeuw (BEL) GB–MG Maglificio 125 3  Andrei Tchmil (MDA) Lotto 115 4  Claudio Chiappucci (ITA) Carrera Jeans–Tassoni 89 5  Giorgio Furlan (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan 87 6  Lance Armstrong (USA) Motorola 80 7 8 9 10 The first six riders rode at least the minimum races to be classified. No sourced information for other positions.

Final standings

Individual

Source:^[9]

Points are awarded to the top 12 classified riders. Riders must start at least 6 races to be classified.^[10]

The points are awarded for every race using the following system:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th
Points	50	35	25	20	18	16	14	12	10	8	6	5

Pos. Rider Team MSR ToF ROU LBL AGR CSS LEE SUI TOU LOM Pts. 1  Gianluca Bortolami (ITA) Mapei–CLAS 0 ? ? ? ? 16 50 50 35 0 151 2  Johan Museeuw (BEL) GB–MG Maglificio 5 35 0 0 50 0 0 35 0 ? 125 3  Andrei Tchmil (MDA) Lotto 10 25 50 6 6 18 0 0 0 0 115 4  Claudio Chiappucci (ITA) Carrera Jeans–Tassoni 0 ? ? 20 14 0 DNS 20 ? 35 89 5  Giorgio Furlan (ITA) Gewiss–Ballan 50 ? ? 25 0 0 DNS 12 0 0 87 6  Lance Armstrong (USA) Motorola 0 ? ? 35 0 35 0 10 0 ? 80 Race winners not eligible for general classification or out of top 6 Pos. Rider Team MSR ToF ROU LBL AGR CSS LEE SUI TOU LOM Pts. ?  Gianni Bugno (ITA) Team Polti–Vaporetto 0 50 ? 0 0 8 0 5 ? ? 63 ?  Vladislav Bobrik (RUS) Gewiss–Ballan ? ? ? ? ? 0 ? 0 0 50 50 ?  Erik Zabel (GER) Team Telekom 0 0 ? ? ? ? ? ? 50 ? 50 ?  Armand de Las Cuevas (FRA) Castorama 0 ? ? 0 ? 50 DNS ? ? ? 50 ?  Evgeni Berzin (RUS) Gewiss–Ballan 0 ? ? 50 ? 0 ? ? ? ? 50

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Top ten position Blue Other points position Purple Out of points, retired Red Did not start (DNS) White unclear if retired or DNS

Teams

Place	Team	Points
1	GB–MG Maglificio	89
2	Motorola	53
3	Gewiss–Ballan	51
4	Mapei–CLAS	45
5	TVM–Bison Kit	41