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2002 Paris–Nice

cycling race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ3365142 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2002 Paris–Nice was the 60th edition of the Paris–Nice cycle race and was held from 10 March to 17 March 2002. The race started in Issy-les-Moulineaux and finished in Nice. The race was won by Alexander Vinokourov of the Telekom team.

Teams

Twenty-one teams, containing a total of 167 riders, participated in the race:

Route

General classification

References

Further reading

"Guide Historique 2014" [Historic Guide 2014] (PDF). L'Equipe (in French). p. 65. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2014.

"Prologue - March 10: Issy-les-Moulineaux ITT, 5.2 km". Cycling News.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2002 Paris–Nice” as cycling race. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Paris, Nice and cycling can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as cycling race. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “2002 Paris–Nice” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.