Most grandtour starts by competitors
Number of starts in grand tours before the start of Tour de France 2002.
| Pos. | Rider | Starts | Tour | Giro | Vuelta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LELLI Massimiliano | 20 | 9 | 7 | 4 |
| 2 | JALABERT Laurent | 20 | 10 | 2 | 8 |
| 3 | SVORADA Ján | 19 | 7 | 8 | 4 |
| 4 | BALDATO Fabio | 17 | 5 | 9 | 3 |
| 5 | CABELLO Francisco | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 |
| 6 | BOLTS Udo | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 |
| 7 | BELLI Wladimir | 16 | 4 | 9 | 3 |
| 8 | DUFAUX Laurent | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 |
| 9 | OLANO Abraham | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 |
| 10 | EKIMOV Viatcheslav | 16 | 11 | 1 | 4 |
| 11 | GOTTI Ivan | 15 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| 12 | ROBIN Jean-Cyril | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 |
| 13 | VIDAL José Angel | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 |
| 14 | BORTOLAMI Gianluca | 14 | 5 | 8 | 1 |
| 15 | GUERINI Giuseppe | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 |
| 16 | VIRENQUE Richard | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 |
| 17 | TAFI Andrea | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| 18 | DURAND Jacky | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 |
| 19 | BROCHARD Laurent | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 |
| 20 | SIMON François | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 |