Astana City

Astana City
Team information
UCI code TSE
Registered Kazakhstan
Founded 2012 (2012)
Discipline Road
Status UCI Continental Team
Bicycles Specialized
Key personnel
General manager Séamus Harford
Alexander Nadobenko
Team name history
2012–2014
2015
2016–
Continental Team Astana
Seven Rivers Cycling Team
Astana City

Astana City (UCI team code: TSE) is 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 acts as a junior feeder team to Astana, alongside Vino 4ever SKO.[1]

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, 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]

Major results

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

Roster

2016

   RiderDate of birth Previous team 
Galym AkhmetovMarch 20, 1995
Yuriy ChsherbininMarch 06, 1996
Vadim GaleyevFebruary 07, 1992Vino 4-ever (2015)
Pavel GatskiyJanuary 01, 1991
Nurbolat KulimbetovMay 09, 1992
Anton KuzminNovember 20, 1996
Sergey LuchshenkoJune 25, 1994
Sultanmurat Miraliyev (Jun 07–Dec 31)October 13, 1990
Yuriy NatarovDecember 28, 1996
Matvey NikitinJuly 02, 1992
Nikita Panassenko (Jun 07–Dec 31)March 18, 1992
Maxim SatlikovJanuary 20, 1997
Grigoriy ShteinMarch 06, 1996
Nikita StalnovSeptember 14, 1991
Vladimir TsoyApril 25, 1997
Alisher Zhumakan (Jun 07–Dec 31)December 05, 2016

See also

References

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