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Astana Qazaqstan Team
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2007 (17 years old)

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Astana–Premier Tech (UCI team code: APT) 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 (which has since been renamed 'Nur-Sultan'). Astana attained UCI ProTeam status in its inaugural year, 2007. Following a major doping scandal involving kazakh rider Alexander Vinokourov, team management was terminated and new management brought in for the 2008 season. The team was then managed by Johan Bruyneel, former team manager of U.S. Postal/Discovery Channel team. Under Bruyneel the ethical nature of the team did not improve, although Astana in this period was very successful. With a lineup including Grand Tour winner Alberto Contador, as well as runner-up Andreas Klöden the results were there, however the team was on the verge of financial collapse in May 2009. A battle for control of the team led to the return of Vinokourov for the 2009 Vuelta a España caused Bruyneel and at least fourteen of its riders to leave at the end of the 2009 season, most for Team RadioShack. Only four Spanish riders, including Contador, and most of the Kazakhs remained with the rebuilt team for 2010. Those four Spaniards all left the team for Saxo Bank–SunGard in 2011.


Team Members




Basso





Battistella





Boaro





Bol





Brussenskiy





Cavendish





Chzhan





Cruz





Dombrowski





Fedorov





Felline





Garofoli





Gidich





Gruzdev





Laas





Lutsenko





Martinelli





Moscon





Natarov





Nibali





Nurlykhassym





Pronskiy





Riabushenko





Romo





Sánchez





Scaroni





Schelling





Syritsa





Tejada





Velasco





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