Astana City

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Astana City
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Team information
UCI codeTSE
Registered Kazakhstan
Founded2012 (2012)
Disbanded2019
Discipline(s) Road
Status UCI Continental Team
Bicycles Specialized
Key personnel
General managerSéamus Harford
Alexander Nadobenko
Team name history
2012–2014
2015
2016–2019
Continental Team Astana
Seven Rivers Cycling Team
Astana City

Astana City ( UCI team code:TSE) was a professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by the Samruk-Kazyna, a coalition of state-owned companies from Kazakhstan and named after its capital city Astana. Astana City acted as a junior feeder team to Astana Qazaqstan Team, alongside Vino 4ever SKO. [1] The team disbanded at the end of the 2019 season.

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Team history

2014: Three doping positives

During the 2014 season three riders, Ilya Davidenok, Victor Okishev and Artur Fedosseyev tested positive for anabolic androgenic steroids. Davidenok tested positive at the Tour de l'Avenir, Okishev tested positive at the Asian Cycling Championships while Fedosseyev tested positive at Tour de l'Ain. The riders were provisionally suspended awaiting doping hearings. [2] [3] [4] The next day Alexander Vinokourov, head of Astana Qazaqstan Team, was reported to have suspended the entire continental team. [5]

2015: Seven Rivers

In 2015 the team changed name to Seven Rivers Cycling Team. [6] Six of the ten riders had previously ridden for the Continental Team Astana. [7]

2016: Astana City

In 2016, the team changed name to Astana City and retained eight riders from Seven Rivers. [8]

Final roster

RiderDate of birth
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Galym Akhmetov  (KAZ) (1995-03-20)20 March 1995 (aged 23)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Olzhas Bayembayev  (KAZ) (1999-01-22)22 January 1999 (aged 19)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Igor Chzhan  (KAZ) (1999-10-02)2 October 1999 (aged 19)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Ramis Dinmukhametov  (KAZ) (2000-09-21)21 September 2000 (aged 18)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Maxim Gridchin  (KAZ) (2000-05-17)17 May 2000 (aged 18)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Anton Kuzmin  (KAZ) (1996-11-20)20 November 1996 (aged 22)
RiderDate of birth
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Sergey Luchshenko  (KAZ) (1994-06-25)25 June 1994 (aged 24)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Daniil Marukhin  (KAZ) (1999-02-13)13 February 1999 (aged 19)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Bolat Niyazov  (KAZ) (2000-02-24)24 February 2000 (aged 18)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Nurbergen Nurlykhassym  (KAZ) (2000-03-25)25 March 2000 (aged 18)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev  (KAZ) (1998-07-21)21 July 1998 (aged 20)
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Ivan Zaitsev  (KAZ) (1999-02-24)24 February 1999 (aged 19)

Major wins

2012
Stage 2a Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional, Ruslan Tleubayev
Stage 4 Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional, Arman Kamyshev
Stage 2 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, Nikita Umerbekov
Stage 5 Heydar Aliyev Anniversary Tour, Nikita Umerbekov
Overall Saguenay U23, Arman Kamyshev
Stages 1 & 3, Arman Kamyshev
Sant'Ermete, Ruslan Tleubayev
Stage 3 Baby Giro, Ruslan Tleubayev
Stage 1 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Arman Kamyshev
Stage 5 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Alexey Lutsenko
Stage 1 Tour Alsace, Ruslan Tleubayev
Stage 5 Tour de l'Avenir, Alexey Lutsenko
Overall Tour of Bulgaria, Maxat Ayazbayev
Stage 1b, Alexey Lutsenko
Stage 2, Arman Kamyshev
2013
Stage 7 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Evgeniy Nepomnyachshiy
Stage 5 Priirtyshe Stage Race, Ilya Davidenok
Atina, Maxat Ayazbayev
2014
Stage 7 Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional, Nurbolat Kulimbetov
Stage 5 Tour de Normandie, Marco Benfatto
Stage 2 Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste trophée harmonie Mutuelle, Vadim Galeyev
Stages 2 & 4 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Marco Benfatto
Stage 3 Tour of China II, Vadim Galeyev
2015
Stage 4 Bałtyk–Karkonosze Tour, Nurbolat Kulimbetov
Stage 4 Tour of Bulgaria, Nikita Panassenko
2016
Grand Prix of ISD, Nurbolat Kulimbetov
2017
Stage 5a (ITT) Baltyk–Karkonosze Tour, Vadim Pronskiy
Stage 5b Baltyk–Karkonosze Tour, Grigoriy Shtein
Stage 3 Grand Prix Priessnitz spa, Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev
2018
Overall Tour of Fatih Sultan Mehmet
Stage 1, Galym Akhmetov
Overall Giro Ciclistico della Valle d'Aosta Mont Blanc, Vadim Pronskiy
Stage 4, Vadim Pronskiy

World, Continental and National champions

2012
Jersey rainbow.svg World U23 Road Race Championships, Alexey Lutsenko
2013
Maillot unidentified.png Asian U23 Continental Time Trial Championships, Daniil Fominykh
2014
Maillot unidentified.png Asian U23 Continental Time Trial Championships, Viktor Okishev
MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan National Road Race Championships, Ilya Davidenok

See also

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Andrey Kashechkin Kazakhstani road racing cyclist

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Andrey Zeits Kazakh road bicycle racer

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Fabio Aru Italian cyclist

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Alexey Lutsenko Kazakhstani cyclist

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2013 Astana season

The 2013 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.

2014 Astana season

The 2014 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.
This season was sponsored by the Samruk-Kazyna group as well as Air Astana, Astana Motors and Expo 2017.

Arman Kamyshev Kazakhstani cyclist

Arman Gabidoullovitch Kamyshev is a Kazakh road racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Continental team Vino–Astana Motors.

Ruslan Tleubayev Kazakhstani cyclist

Ruslan Bakhytzhanovich Tleubayev is a Kazakh former cyclist, who competed professionally for the Astana team between 2013 and 2018.

2015 Astana season

The 2015 season for the Astana cycling team began in January with the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.

Maxat Ayazbayev Kazakh cyclist

Maxat Mukhtarovich Ayazbayev is a Kazakh former road cyclist, who currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team Almaty Cycling Team.

Ilya Davidenok Kazakhstani cyclist

Ilya Davidenok is a Kazakhstani cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Almaty Cycling Team.

2016 Astana season

The 2016 season for the Astana cycling team began in January with the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.

Nurbolat Kulimbetov Kazakh cyclist (born 1992)

Nurbolat Kulimbetov is a Kazakh former professional cyclist.

2018 Astana season

The 2018 season for the Astana cycling team began in January with the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.

Vadim Pronskiy Kazakh cyclist

Vadim Denisovich Pronskiy is a Kazakh cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Astana Qazaqstan Team.

2019 Astana season

The 2019 season for the Astana cycling team began in January with the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.

The 2020 season for the Astana cycling team began in January at the Tour Down Under.

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  4. Cyclingnews: Fedosseyev is fifth doping case for Astana organisation, cyclingnews.com, 26 November 2014
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  6. "Seven Rivers Cycling Team".
  7. "Astana Continental Team suspended by Alexander Vinokourov over doping scandals". Cycling Weekly. 27 November 2014.
  8. "Astana City".