Most grandtour starts by competitors
Number of starts in grand tours before the start of Paris - Camembert 1997.
| Pos. | Rider | Starts | Tour | Giro | Vuelta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GIANETTI Mauro | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| 2 | LINO Pascal | 8 | 6 | - | 2 |
| 3 | EKIMOV Viatcheslav | 8 | 7 | - | 1 |
| 4 | DURAND Jacky | 7 | 5 | 2 | - |
| 5 | MADOUAS Laurent | 7 | 4 | 3 | - |
| 6 | HERVÉ Pascal | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | SIMON François | 6 | 4 | 2 | - |
| 8 | GOUVENOU Thierry | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | PIERDOMENICO Germano | 4 | - | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | REBELLIN Davide | 4 | - | 3 | 1 |
| 11 | BOARDMAN Chris | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| 12 | FLEISCHER Thomas | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 13 | HVASTIJA Martin | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| 14 | MASDUPUY Jean-Luc | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 15 | BOUYER Franck | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 16 | HIETANEN Miika | 0 | - | - | - |
| 17 | HUBERT Emmanuel | 0 | - | - | - |
| 18 | IVANOV Sergei | 0 | - | - | - |
| 19 | JALABERT Nicolas | 0 | - | - | - |
| 20 | VERBRUGGHE Rik | 0 | - | - | - |
| 21 | HALGAND Patrice | 0 | - | - | - |
| 22 | SALMON Benoît | 0 | - | - | - |
| 23 | STREEL Marc | 0 | - | - | - |
| 24 | GUILBERT Charles | 0 | - | - | - |
| 25 | AUGER Ludovic | 0 | - | - | - |
| 26 | PEERS Chris | 0 | - | - | - |
| 27 | DE WAELE Fabien | 0 | - | - | - |
| 28 | LEFEVRE David | 0 | - | - | - |
| 29 | DE WOLF Steve | 0 | - | - | - |
| 30 | LAMOUR Claude | 0 | - | - | - |