# 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 XDS Astana Team, alongside Vino 4ever SKO. 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. The next day Alexander Vinokourov, head of XDS Astana Team, was reported to have suspended the entire continental team.

### 2015: Seven Rivers

In 2015 the team changed name to Seven Rivers Cycling Team. Six of the ten riders had previously ridden for the Continental Team Astana.

### 2016: Astana City

In 2016, the team changed name to Astana City and retained eight riders from Seven Rivers.

## Final roster

| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Galym Akhmetov (KAZ) | Galym Akhmetov (KAZ) | (1995-03-20)20 March 1995 (aged 23) |
| Olzhas Bayembayev (KAZ) | Olzhas Bayembayev (KAZ) | (1999-01-22)22 January 1999 (aged 19) |
| Igor Chzhan (KAZ) | Igor Chzhan (KAZ) | (1999-10-02)2 October 1999 (aged 19) |
| Ramis Dinmukhametov (KAZ) | Ramis Dinmukhametov (KAZ) | (2000-09-21)21 September 2000 (aged 18) |
| Maxim Gridchin (KAZ) | Maxim Gridchin (KAZ) | (2000-05-17)17 May 2000 (aged 18) |
| Anton Kuzmin (KAZ) | Anton Kuzmin (KAZ) | (1996-11-20)20 November 1996 (aged 22) |
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Sergey Luchshenko (KAZ) | Sergey Luchshenko (KAZ) | (1994-06-25)25 June 1994 (aged 24) |
| Daniil Marukhin (KAZ) | Daniil Marukhin (KAZ) | (1999-02-13)13 February 1999 (aged 19) |
| Bolat Niyazov (KAZ) | Bolat Niyazov (KAZ) | (2000-02-24)24 February 2000 (aged 18) |
| Nurbergen Nurlykhassym (KAZ) | Nurbergen Nurlykhassym (KAZ) | (2000-03-25)25 March 2000 (aged 18) |
| Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev (KAZ) | Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev (KAZ) | (1998-07-21)21 July 1998 (aged 20) |
| Ivan Zaitsev (KAZ) | 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