Astana City

Astana City
Team information
UCI code	TSE
Registered	Kazakhstan
Founded	2012
Disbanded	2019
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	UCI Continental Team
Bicycles	Specialized
Key personnel
General manager	Séamus 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.

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

	Rider	Date of birth
Galym Akhmetov (KAZ)		(1995-03-20)20 March 1995 (aged 23)
Olzhas Bayembayev (KAZ)		(1999-01-22)22 January 1999 (aged 19)
Igor Chzhan (KAZ)		(1999-10-02)2 October 1999 (aged 19)
Ramis Dinmukhametov (KAZ)		(2000-09-21)21 September 2000 (aged 18)
Maxim Gridchin (KAZ)		(2000-05-17)17 May 2000 (aged 18)
Anton Kuzmin (KAZ)		(1996-11-20)20 November 1996 (aged 22)

	Rider	Date of birth
Sergey Luchshenko (KAZ)		(1994-06-25)25 June 1994 (aged 24)
Daniil Marukhin (KAZ)		(1999-02-13)13 February 1999 (aged 19)
Bolat Niyazov (KAZ)		(2000-02-24)24 February 2000 (aged 18)
Nurbergen Nurlykhassym (KAZ)		(2000-03-25)25 March 2000 (aged 18)
Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev (KAZ)		(1998-07-21)21 July 1998 (aged 20)
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: 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

References

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

[1] "CyclingQuotes.com Astana to present five teams in Kazakhstan".

[2] Cycling News. "UCI to review Astana WorldTour licence". Cyclingnews.com.

[3] Cycling News. "Astana Continental rider Okishev tests positive for steroids". Cyclingnews.com.

[4] Cyclingnews: Fedosseyev is fifth doping case for Astana organisation, cyclingnews.com, 26 November 2014

[5] Stephen Farrand. "Vinokourov suspends Astana Continental team". Cyclingnews.com.

[6] "Seven Rivers Cycling Team".

[7] "Astana Continental Team suspended by Alexander Vinokourov over doping scandals". Cycling Weekly. 27 November 2014.

[8] "Astana City".

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