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Kazakh cycling team
Astana City
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UCI code | TSE |
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Registered |
Kazakhstan |
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Founded | 2012 (2012) |
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Disbanded | 2019 |
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Discipline(s) |
Road |
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Status |
UCI Continental Team |
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Bicycles |
Specialized |
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General manager | Séamus Harford Alexander Nadobenko |
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2012–2014 2015 2016–2019 | Continental Team Astana Seven Rivers Cycling Team Astana City |
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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.
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
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
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World U23 Road Race Championships, Alexey Lutsenko
- 2013
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Asian U23 Continental Time Trial Championships, Daniil Fominykh
- 2014
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Asian U23 Continental Time Trial Championships, Viktor Okishev
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Kazakhstan National Road Race Championships, Ilya Davidenok
See also
References