Astana Qazaqstan Development Team

The Astana Qazaqstan Development Team is a Kazakhstani UCI Continental cycling team established in 2022. The team acts as the development program for UCI WorldTeam Astana Qazaqstan Team.[1]

Astana Qazaqstan Development Team
Team information
UCI codeAQD
RegisteredKazakhstan
Founded2022
Discipline(s)Road
StatusUCI Continental
Key personnel
General manager
Team manager(s)
Team name history
2022–
Astana Qazaqstan Development Team

For the 2022 season the team focused on two goals; To provide a gateway for Kazakh cyclists to reach a higher level and to have a team that will be competitive as a UCI Continental team.[2] With the same goals going into the 2023 season the team focused more on Kazakhstan growth with six riders from Kazakhstan and the rest from around the world.[3]

The first win that was not a national championship came in 2023 at the Tour of Sakarya where Astana Qazaqstan Team rider won while riding for the development team.[4] A rule introduced in 2020 allows riders from the development team to race with the Main team in select races and it allows Main team riders to race with the development team.[5]

Team roster
As of 27 July 2023.[6]
Rider Date of birth
 Nil Aguilera (ESP) (2004-05-30) 30 May 2004
 Savelii Laptev (RUS) (2004-06-23) 23 June 2004
 Harold Martín López (ECU) (2000-12-03) 3 December 2000
 Daniil Pronskiy (KAZ) (2000-06-04) 4 June 2000
 Andrey Remkhe (KAZ) (2003-01-04) 4 January 2003
 Orken Slamzhanov (KAZ) (2001-11-02) 2 November 2001
Rider Date of birth
 Maxim Taraskin (KAZ) (2004-04-29) 29 April 2004
 Davide Toneatti (ITA) (2001-04-09) 9 April 2001
 Alexandre Vinokurov (KAZ) (2002-07-07) 7 July 2002
 Nicolas Vinokurov (KAZ) (2002-07-07) 7 July 2002
 Artyom Zakharov (KAZ) (1991-10-27) 27 October 1991
 Simone Zanini (ITA) (2004-03-26) 26 March 2004

Major wins
2022
 Kazakhstan National Under-23 Road Race championships Nicolas Vinokurov
 Kazakhstan National Under-23 Time Trial championships, Daniil Pronskiy
2023
Overall Tour of Sakarya, Martin Laas
Stage 2, Martin Laas
 Kazakhstan National Under-23 Road Race championships, Nicolas Vinokurov
 Kazakhstan National Under-23 Time Trial championships, Maxim Taraski


National champions
2022
Kazakhstan Under-23 Road Race, Nicolas Vinokurov
Kazakhstan Under-23 Time Trial, Daniil Pronskiy
2023
Kazakhstan Under-23 Road Race, Nicolas Vinokurov
Kazakhstan Under-23 Time Trial, Maxim Taraskin

References
  1. "Astana Qazaqstan Development Team". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  2. "Astana Qazaqstan Development Team presents its 2022 roster". Astana - Qazaqstan. 23 November 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  3. "Astana Qazaqstan Development Team presents its 2023 roster: 19 December 2022, 18:34 - news on inform.kz". www.inform.kz. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  4. "Astana's Martin Laas wins Tour of Sakarya: 21 May 2023, 13:52 - news on inform.kz". www.inform.kz. 21 May 2023. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  5. "inrng : on development teams". inrng.com. 14 January 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  6. "Astana Qazaqstan Development Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
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