Astana Team

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Astana

Team information

UCI code

AST

Based

Switzerland

Founded

2007

Discipline(s)

Road

Status

ProTour

Key personnel

General Manager

Marc Biver

Team Manager

Mario Kummer




Team kit

The Astana Team (UCI Team Code: AST), is a professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by the Astana group, a coalition of companies from Kazakhstan, named after its capital, recently Arcelor Mittal decided to be co-sponsor for at least the 2007 season. The team has UCI ProTour status^[1], is Swiss based and managed by former Tour de Suisse organiser Marc Biver. The team's leader is Alexander Vinokourov.

Some riders and staff joined the team from the former Liberty Seguros-Würth Team, also known as Würth Team and Astana-Würth Team. For more information on this team, see Liberty Seguros-Würth team.

The UCI ProTour license commission first informed Astana Team that they would not be granted a ProTour License for the 2007 season. Following UCI's decision not to grant a ProTour license, the organizers of the three Grand Tours informed Astana Team that they would be included, regardless of ProTour license status. On December 20, 2006 the UCI License Commission awarded Astana Team with a 4 year ProTour license.

1 Riders
- 1.1 2007 ProTeam
2 Staff
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Riders

[edit] 2007 ProTeam

As of January 20, 2007.^[2]

	Rider	Date of Birth
	Igor Abakoumov	May 30, 1981 (age 25)
	Assan Bazayev	February 22, 1981 (age 26)
	Antonio Colom	May 11, 1978 (age 28)
	Koen de Kort	September 8, 1982 (age 24)
	Thomas Frei	January 19, 1985 (age 22)
	Maxim Gourov	January 30, 1979 (age 28)
	Rene Haselbacher	September 15, 1977 (age 29)
	Maxim Iglinsky	April 18, 1981 (age 25)
	Sergei Ivanov	March 5, 1975 (age 32)
	Benoît Joachim	January 14, 1976 (age 31)
	Andrey Kashechkin	March 21, 1980 (age 27)
	Aaron Kemps	September 10, 1983 (age 23)
	Matthias Kessler	May 16, 1979 (age 27)
	Andreas Klöden	June 22, 1975 (age 31)
	Alexey Kolessov	September 27, 1984 (age 22)

	Rider	Date of Birth
	Julien Mazet	March 16, 1981 (age 26)
	Eddy Mazzoleni	July 29, 1973 (age 33)
	Gennady Mikhaylov	February 8, 1974 (age 33)
	Andrey Mizurov	March 16, 1973 (age 34)
	Steve Morabito	January 30, 1983 (age 24)
	Dimitry Murajev	November 2, 1979 (age 27)
	Daniel Navarro Garcia	July 8, 1983 (age 23)
	Gregory Rast	January 17, 1980 (age 27)
	José Antonio Redondo	March 5, 1985 (age 22)
	Paolo Savoldelli	May 7, 1973 (age 33)
	Michael Schär	September 29, 1986 (age 20)
	Evgeniy Sladkov	December 15, 1983 (age 23)
	Alexander Vinokourov	September 16, 1973 (age 33)
	Sergey Yakovlev	April 11, 1976 (age 30)