Most grandtour starts by competitors
Number of starts in grand tours before the start of Steiermark-Rundfahrt 1998.
| Pos. | Rider | Starts | Tour | Giro | Vuelta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ZANETTE Denis | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 2 | RADAELLI Mauro | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | DJAVANIAN Viatcheslav | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | SIVAKOV Alexei | 3 | 1 | 2 | - |
| 5 | TRUMHELLER Heinrich | 2 | - | 2 | - |
| 6 | FOIS Valentino | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| 7 | ZANOTTI Marco | 2 | - | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | REGEC Josef | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| 9 | OZOLS Dainis | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| 10 | ZEMKE Jens | 0 | - | - | - |
| 11 | WEISSMANN Mike | 0 | - | - | - |
| 12 | WOJCIECHOWSKI Dariusz | 0 | - | - | - |
| 13 | KASPRET Arno | 0 | - | - | - |
| 14 | KASTENHUBER Alexander | 0 | - | - | - |
| 15 | RAVALEU Stéphane | 0 | - | - | - |
| 16 | JEURISSEN Cees | 0 | - | - | - |
| 17 | KERN Albin | 0 | - | - | - |
| 18 | FILIP Branko | 0 | - | - | - |
| 19 | KRANJEC Igor | 0 | - | - | - |
| 20 | GUGGANIG Bernhard | 0 | - | - | - |
| 21 | LOCHOWSKI Roberto | 0 | - | - | - |
| 22 | BABAITSEV Artur | 0 | - | - | - |
| 23 | OBWALLER Hans-Peter | 0 | - | - | - |
| 24 | NIERMANN Grischa | 0 | - | - | - |
| 25 | LIESE Thomas | 0 | - | - | - |
| 26 | KOTNIK Matjia | 0 | - | - | - |
| 27 | MIHOLJEVIĆ Vladimir | 0 | - | - | - |
| 28 | TRKAL František | 0 | - | - | - |