2002 Summary of Results

These tables include results submitted and fully processed through 2026/01/03.

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USA 2002 Finishers by Region
ACP Points
Domestic Points
USA Historical Trend
World Rankings -- Nations

USA 2002 Finishers by Region

Region	# of finishers
	ACP events						RM events	RUSA events
	200	300	400	600	1000	flèches		<200	200	300	400	600	1000	darts	arrows
AZ: Desert Camp	17
CA: Davis	188	103	68	46	13	17
CA: San Luis Obispo	45	14	13	4
CA: Southern	33	19	7	4
CO: Boulder	49	28	14	10	5	5	8
DC: Washington	77	35	17	14		22
FL: Southern	100	60	45	27	12	8
GA: Atlanta	22	26	17	12
IA: Cedar Valley	25
IA: Eastern	25	17	13	8	6
IL: Chicago	35	4	16	9
KY: Lexington	18	14	5	6
MA: Boston	115	25	52	50
MA: Boston-Montreal-Boston	2				2		85
MA: Westfield	31	38	19					6
MN: Twin Cities / Rochester	11	8	8	3
MO: Kansas City	29	15	12	7
MO: St. Louis	11	3	3	1
NC: High Point	18					11
NC: Raleigh	26	18	11	13
NJ: NYC and Princeton	50	35						11
NY: Central/Western	46	10	9
NY: Quadzilla				18
OH: Columbus	42	14	11	6
OK: Tahlequah/Eastern	10	12	8	4
OR: Portland	30	12	8	7
SC: Spartanburg	21	19	24	7
TX: Austin	17	16	6	10
TX: Dallas	110	38	10	8
WA: Seattle	93	65	50	29	9	8		10
TOTALS	1296	648	446	303	47	71	93	27

ACP Points

The ACP assigns "points" for each rider that completes an ACP-sanctioned event. The number of points assigned depends on the brevet distance as indicated by the table below. Nations and organizing clubs are ranked by the number of points accumulated during the year and the results are listed in the annual ACP plaquette (magazine). PBP completions accumulate ACP points; however, other 1200km+ events such as BMB do not. There are no ACP points for fleches nor are there any for domestically-sanctioned events such as populaires, arrows, and domestic brevets.

Distance	ACP Points (per finisher)
200km	2
300km	3
400km	4
600km	6
1000km	10
1200km (PBP only)	12 (male finisher) 18 (female finisher)

USA 2002 ACP Points by Organizing Club

Club	Finishers					ACP Points
	200	300	400	600	1000
Davis Bike Club/905014	188	103	68	46	13	1363
Seattle International Randonneurs/947018	93	65	50	29	9	845
West Palm Beach Bicycle Club/909019	100	60	45	27	12	842
Boston Brevet Series/921030	115	25	52	50		813
Lone Star Randonneurs/943026	110	38	10	8		422
Potomac Pedalers Touring Club/920010	77	35	17	14		411
Rocky Mountain Cycling Club/906002	49	28	14	10	5	348
North Carolina Bicycle Club/933045	44	18	11	13		264
Audax Atlanta/910004	22	26	17	12		262
Iowa Ultra Events/915011	25	17	13	8	6	261
Northeast Sport Cyclists/921033	31	38	19			252
Freewheelers of Spartanburg/940046	21	19	24	7		237
San Luis Obispo Bicycle Club/905035	45	14	13	4		208
Ohio Randonneurs/935012	42	14	11	6		206
Five Borough Bicycle Club/932018	50	35				205
Great Lakes Randonneurs/913005	35	4	16	9		200
Kansas City Ultra Cycling/925001	29	15	12	7		193
AdventureCORPS/905004	33	19	7	4		175
Portland Wheelmen Touring Club/937015	30	12	8	7		170
Hill Country Randonneurs/943025	17	16	6	10		166
Onondaga Cycling Club/932027	46	10	9			158
Bluegrass Cycling Club/917001	18	14	5	6		134
Eastern Oklahoma/936004	10	12	8	4		112
/932030				18		108
Rochester Active Sports Club/923039	11	8	8	3		96
Cedar Valley Cyclists/915015	25					50
St Louis Cycling Club/925034	11	3	3	1		49
PAC Tour/949005	17					34
Boston Montreal Boston/921003	2				2	24
New Jersey Randonneurs/930029						0
TOTALS	1296	648	446	303	47	8608

Domestic Points

RUSA also has developed a system of points that includes all events on its calendar, some of which are not counted under the ACP points system. For example, a small region that organizes a 1200km event or a series of populaires may accumulate more domestic points than ACP points during a season. Domestic points recognize RBAs who are expanding the range of randonneur event types in their regions. The domestic points system may be used in various cost-sharing formulas or rebate systems intended to assist RBAs.

Type and Distance	Domestic Points (per finisher)
RUSA Populaire (100-199km)	1
ACP 200km or RUSA 200-299km	2
ACP 300km or RUSA 300-399km	3
ACP 400km or RUSA 400-599km	4
ACP 600km or RUSA 600-999km	6
ACP 1000km or RUSA 1000-1199km	10
RM Grand Randonnée 1200km+	12
ACP Flèche or RUSA Arrow (24h/360km)	4
RUSA Dart (12h/180km or 13h30/200km)	2
RUSA Dart Populaire (8h/120km)	1

USA 2002 RUSA Points by Region

Region	RUSA Points
CA: Davis	1431
MA: Boston-Montreal-Boston	1044
WA: Seattle	887
FL: Southern	874
MA: Boston	813
DC: Washington	499
CO: Boulder	464
TX: Dallas	422
GA: Atlanta	262
IA: Eastern	261
MA: Westfield	258
SC: Spartanburg	237
NC: Raleigh	228
NJ: NYC and Princeton	216
CA: San Luis Obispo	208
OH: Columbus	206
IL: Chicago	200
MO: Kansas City	193
CA: Southern	175
OR: Portland	170
TX: Austin	166
NY: Central/Western	158
KY: Lexington	134
OK: Tahlequah/Eastern	112
NY: Quadzilla	108
MN: Twin Cities / Rochester	96
NC: High Point	80
IA: Cedar Valley	50
MO: St. Louis	49
AZ: Desert Camp	34
TOTAL	10035

USA Historical Trend

Year	ACP Events				RM Events	RUSA Events					Partici- pants	Points
	Brevets	Flèches	PBP (M)	PBP (F)	1200+km	Populaires	Brevets	Arrows	Darts	Perm'ts		ACP	RUSA
1999	3438	69	262	42			0				965	15558	10180
2000	1430	75			104		0				759	4530	6052
2001	2023	90			122		0				957	6406	8250
2002	2745	71			93	27	0				1242	8618	10035

Other than PBP, this table includes only those events run by USA clubs.
It does not include events done by USA participants in other countries.

The 1999 ACP points figure includes brevets run under both the RUSA and the International Randonneurs organizations. RUSA does not have any of the data from International Randonneurs in its database.

World Rankings -- Nations

ACP points are accumulated for each of the world's nations and these are also ranked. The 2012 standings were:

Rank in 2012	Nation	ACP Points
		1999	2000	2001	2002
1	Japan	0	0	0	827
2	Italy	3856	1642	785	2080
3	Australia	4772	2241	2460	2794
4	Brazil	0	0	0	0
5	France	69371	3817	3374	5355
6	Taiwan	0	0	0	0
7	Russia	813	307	359	598
8	Germany	3265	954	924	1418
9	Spain1	3138	301	453	342
10	Greece	0	0	0	0
11	Canada	3608	1718	1887	2404
12	England	15880	4621	3284	3895
13	India	0	0	0	0
14	Ukraine	110	27	0	0
15	Belgium	2920	1040	1232	1529
16	Sweden	1938	359	671	593
17	S. Korea	0	0	0	0
18	Slovenia	0	0	0	0
19	Bulgaria	279	221	351	255
20	Holland	2406	311	375	597
21	Denmark	4358	688	644	767
22	Indonesia	0	0	0	0
23	Ireland	48	0	21	79
24	Austria	579	131	110	87
25	Portugal	0	0	0	0
26	Finland	216	24	0	5
27	Croatia	0	0	0	0
28	S. Africa	585	418	326	356
29	Hungary	0	0	0	0
30	Serbia	0	0	0	0
31	Uzbekistan	0	0	0	0
32	Poland	0	0	0	0
33	Norway	1084	317	396	310
34	Philippines	0	0	0	0
35	Israel	0	0	0	0
36	Estonia	0	0	0	0
37	China	0	0	0	0

¹ACP sometimes reports points for the Catalan and Vasco regions of Spain separately. This is a combined total.

In non-PBP years, the USA has typically led all nations in ACP points. Not so in 2012 -- Japan has taken over that position. In PBP years, France dominates the competition. For example, in 1999, France had 69371 points versus 15558 in the USA. Points resulting from PBP completions make a huge difference: 20034 for France vs. 3900 for the USA in 1999.

In 2003, ACP reported national rankings for BRM brevet points (200km-1000km) just as it does in non-PBP years. However, it also published the "Challenge ACP" which ranked nations and clubs for 200km through 600km brevets and PBP finishes (inexplicably, this ranking omits points for 1000km brevets). The table above uses the "Challenge ACP" rankings and totals for 2003; for all other years, the totals include points for 1000km brevets. In 2007 and 2011, ACP reported national rankings but excluded points for PBP finishes. This makes the 2007 and 2011 points totals incomparable with the 1999 and 2003 totals (which included PBP points).

An interesting statistic is the number of ACP points accumulated relative to the nation's population, a crude measure of the popularity of randonneur cycling in that country. The following table is based on the points from 2012 and the population estimate of 2000.

Rank in 2012	Nation	ACP Points	Population (millions)	ACP Points per million people
1	Slovenia	1030	2	515
2	Australia	6765	18.9	358
3	Greece	3588	10.6	338
4	Taiwan	5704	22.2	257
5	Ireland	732	3.7	198
6	Sweden	1493	8.9	168
7	Belgium	1630	10.2	160
8	Denmark	797	5.3	150
9	Japan	18782	126.7	148
10	Italy	7463	57.3	130
11	Bulgaria	1010	8.2	123
12	Spain1	4363	39.6	110
13	France	6231	59.1	105
14	Canada	3128	30.2	104
15	Croatia	365	4.4	83
16	Austria	677	8.2	83
17	Finland	417	5.2	80
18	Germany	4876	82.2	59
19	Holland	834	15.8	53
20	England	3062	58.8	52
21	Portugal	427	10.5	41
22	Russia	5650	146.9	38
23	Brazil	6256	170.1	37
24	Norway	151	4.5	34
25	Ukraine	1664	50.5	33
26	Estonia	36	1.3	28
27	Hungary	271	10	27
28	S. Korea	1159	47.8	24
29	Serbia	234	10	23
30	Israel	66	6.2	11
31	S. Africa	333	40.4	8
32	Uzbekistan	177	26.6	7
33	Poland	169	38.5	4
34	Indonesia	788	213.4	4
35	India	2040	1000	2
36	Philippines	134	81.2	2
37	China	30	1277.6	0