Astana City Explained

Astana City
Code:	TSE
Registered:	Kazakhstan
Disbanded:	2019
Bicycles:	Specialized
Generalmanager:	Séamus Harford Alexander Nadobenko
Discipline:	Road
Status:	UCI Continental Team
Season:	2012–2014 2015 2016–2019
Oldname:	Continental Team Astana Seven Rivers Cycling Team Astana City

Astana City 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, 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, 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

See main article: List of Astana City rosters.

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

World U23 Road Race Championships, Alexey Lutsenko

2013

Asian U23 Continental Time Trial Championships, Daniil Fominykh

2014

Asian U23 Continental Time Trial Championships, Viktor Okishev

Kazakhstan National Road Race Championships, Ilya Davidenok

See also

Notes and References

Web site: CyclingQuotes.com Astana to present five teams in Kazakhstan.
Web site: UCI to review Astana WorldTour licence. Cycling News. Cyclingnews.com.
Web site: Astana Continental rider Okishev tests positive for steroids. Cycling News. Cyclingnews.com.
Cyclingnews: Fedosseyev is fifth doping case for Astana organisation, cyclingnews.com, 26 November 2014
Web site: Vinokourov suspends Astana Continental team. Stephen Farrand. Cyclingnews.com.
Web site: Seven Rivers Cycling Team.
Web site: Astana Continental Team suspended by Alexander Vinokourov over doping scandals. 27 November 2014. Cycling Weekly.
Web site: Astana City.