Sergey Lagutin is a former professional road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2004 and 2018 for seven different teams, and represented both Russia and Uzbekistan in competition. He now works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team Team Novo Nordisk Development.
Volodymyr Bileka is a Ukrainian professional road bicycle racer. He rode for Discovery Channel between 2005 and 2007. As with teammate and compatriot Yaroslav Popovych, he showed promise by winning numerous races as a junior before turning professional.
Enrico Gasparotto is an Italian-born Swiss former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2020, for seven different teams. After retiring, he worked as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team EF Education–Nippo Development Team in 2021 before joining Bora–Hansgrohe in a similar role the following year.
Rémy Di Gregorio is a French road bicycle racer, who is currently suspended from the sport following a positive in-competition doping test for darbepoetin alfa, a re-engineered form of erythropoietin (EPO). He has previously competed for Française des Jeux (2005–2010), Astana (2011), Cofidis (2012), and Delko–Marseille Provence KTM (2014–2018) in his professional career.
Marc de Maar is a Curaçaoan former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2018.
Amir Zargari is an Iranian former professional racing cyclist. He rode for UCI ProTeam Ag2r–La Mondiale for the 2012 season.
Alexander Nikolayevich Porsev is a Russian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2011 and 2019, for Team Katusha and Gazprom–RusVelo.
Maxim Igorevich Belkov is a Russian former professional road cyclist, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2018 for the ISD–NERI, Vacansoleil–DCM and Team Katusha–Alpecin squads.
Nathan Peter Haas is an Australian cyclist. He competed as a professional road racer until the end of 2021. He started competing full time in gravel events 2022.
The 2012 season for the Astana cycling team began in January with the Tour Down Under. As a UCI ProTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.
The 2012 Tour of Turkey was the 48th edition of the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey cycling stage race. It was held from 22 April–29 April 2012, and was rated as a 2.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour. Bulgarian Ivailo Gabrovski originally won the race after dominating the third stage, but was later found to have used EPO and was disqualified. It was officially announced in October 2012 that the winner of the Tour of Turkey is Alexsandr Dyachenko of Astana.
Ivailo Gabrovski is a Bulgarian former racing cyclist. He holds the record for most Tour of Bulgaria wins, which he won 5 times.
Mustafa Sayar is a Turkish professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Sakarya BB Pro Team. In 2013 he was suspended following his testing positive for EPO.
Timofey Viktorovich Kritsky is a Russian former professional road cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2014 for the Itera–Katusha, Team Katusha and RusVelo teams.
Mykhaylo Mykhaylovich Kononenko is a Ukrainian professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Sakarya BB Pro Team.
Oleksandr Mikhailovich Polivoda is a Ukrainian racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Continental team SSOIS Miogee Cycling Team. He rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.
Andriy Vasylyuk is a Ukrainian racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Continental team Yunnan Lvshan Landscape. He rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.
Žolt Dér is a Serbian-born Hungarian former racing cyclist. He rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships. Following his retirement, Dér became a coach with the Hungarian Cycling Federation.
Artem Yuryevich Nych is a Russian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Sabgal–Anicolor.
