Astana Continental Team

Astana Continental Team
Team information
UCI code AS2
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– Continental Team Astana

Astana Continental Team (UCI team code: AS2) 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. Continental Team Astana acts as the junior feeder team to Astana.[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]

Major results

2012
1st Stage 2a Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional, Ruslan Tleubayev
1st Stage 4 Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional, Arman Kamyshev
1st Stage 2 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, Nikita Umerbekov
1st Stage 5 Heydar Aliyev Anniversary Tour, Nikita Umerbekov
1st Overall Saguenay U23, Arman Kamyshev
1st Stages 1 & 3, Arman Kamyshev
1st Sant'Ermete, Ruslan Tleubayev
1st Stage 3 Baby Giro, Ruslan Tleubayev
1st Stage 1 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Arman Kamyshev
1st Stage 5 Giro della Valle d'Aosta, Alexey Lutsenko
1st Stage 1 Tour Alsace, Ruslan Tleubayev
1st Stage 5 Tour de l'Avenir, Alexey Lutsenko
1st Overall Tour of Bulgaria, Maxat Ayazbayev
1st Stage 1b, Alexey Lutsenko
1st Stage 2, Arman Kamyshev
2013
1st Stage 7 Tour of Qinghai Lake, Evgeniy Nepomnyachshiy
1st Stage 5 Priirtyshe Stage Race, Ilya Davidenok
1st Atina, Maxat Ayazbayev
2014
1st Stage 7 Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional, Nurbolat Kulimbetov
1st Stage 5 Tour de Normandie, Marco Benfatto
1st Stage 2 Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste trophée harmonie Mutuelle, Vadim Galeyev
1st Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake, Ilya Davidenok
1st Stages 2 & 4, Marco Benfatto
1st Stage 10, Ilya Davidenok
1st Stage 3 Tour of China II, Vadim Galeyev

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

References

External links

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