[1] The competitions are the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España, contested annually in that order.
[2] No cyclist has won all three Grand Tours's points classifications in the same year; the only cyclists to win all three Grand Tours's points classifications in their career are Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Mark Cavendish, Laurent Jalabert, Eddy Merckx and Alessandro Petacchi.
The only other non-European country to win a points classification at a Grand Tour is Australia, who have won five between three riders.
Zabel held the record for the most points classifications at the Tour with six, until being surpassed by Peter Sagan in 2019.
Francesco Moser and Giuseppe Saronni share the record of four points classifications at the Giro.