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]

Team roster

Rider Date of birth
 Galym Akhmetov (KAZ) (1995-03-20) 20 March 1995
 Yuriy Chsherbinin (KAZ) (1996-03-06) 6 March 1996
 Ilya Gorbushin (KAZ) (1998-05-18) 18 May 1998
 Nurbolat Kulimbetov (KAZ) (1992-05-09) 9 May 1992
 Anton Kuzmin (KAZ) (1996-11-20) 20 November 1996
 Sergey Luchshenko (KAZ) (1994-06-25) 25 June 1994
 Yuriy Natarov (KAZ) (1996-12-28) 28 December 1996
Rider Date of birth
 Matvey Nikitin (KAZ) (1992-07-02) 2 July 1992
 Nikita Panassenko (KAZ) (1992-03-18) 18 March 1992
 Vadim Pronskiy (KAZ) (1998-06-04) 4 June 1998
 Maxim Satlikov (KAZ) (1997-01-20) 20 January 1997
 Grigoriy Shtein (KAZ) (1996-03-06) 6 March 1996
 Vladimir Tsoy (KAZ) (1997-04-25) 25 April 1997
 Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev (KAZ) (1998-07-21) 21 July 1998

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

See also

References

  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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