Victories 2024: 12
The team from Kazakhstan has achieved twelve successes this year. That's four fewer than last year and yet it can be said that the team has made a lot out of very little. The big goal was achieved: Mark Cavendish's 35th Tour de France stage win. The British rider's historic record meant that the team was the talk of the town and the sponsors received more attention than many other teams.
Driver with the most victories: 3
Mark Cavendish is also the rider who has achieved the most successes for Astana 2024, followed by Alexey Lutsenko, Dmitriy Gruzdev and Ivan Smirnov (all 2). In addition to stage 5 of the Tour de France, Cavendish also won stage 4 of the Tour of Colombia in February and stage 2 of the Tour of Hungary in May.
Most racing days: 88
Harold Tejada spent most of his racing days in the saddle with Astana. The 27-year-old Colombian mountain specialist did the lion's share at the Tour de France and the Vuelta a Espana. His best result was fifth place on stage 2 of the Tour de France in Bologna. He also celebrated his first professional victory at the beginning of the year on stage 2 of the Tour of Colombia. Tejada has also ridden the most race kilometres for Astana (13465). That is 331 more than Lorenzo Fortunato, who is second in this statistic.
Transfers for 2025
Additions
- Florian Samuel Kajamini (Team MBH Bank Colpack Ballan)
- Darren van Bekkum (Visma | Lease a Bike Development)
- Alessandro Romele (Astana Qazaqstan Development Team)
- Nicola Conci (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
- Matteo Mallucelli (JCL Team UKYO)
- Aaroen Gate (Burgos-BH)
- Clement Champoussin (Arkea-B&B Hotels)
- Fausto Masnada (Soudal - Quick Step)
- Sergio Higuita (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)
- Mike Teunissen (Intermarche-Wanty)
- Wout Poels (Bahrain-Victorious)
- Diego Ulissi (UAE Team Emirates)
Departures
- Gianmarco Garofoli (Soudal - Quick Step)
- Santiago Umba (?)
- Anton Kuzmin (?)
- Gleb Brussenskiy (end of career)
- Igor Chzhan (?)
- Vadim Pronskiy (?)
- Samuele Battistella (EF Education EasyPost)
- Yevgeniy Gidich (?)
- Rüdiger Selig (end of career)
- Dmitriy Gruzdev (?)
- Michael Morkov (end of career)
- Alexey Lutsenko (Israel-Premier Tech)
- Mark Cavendish (end of career)
13 out, 12 in (as of 25 November). Astana is replacing almost half the team and is also reorganising the sporting management and the performance team. This is mainly due to two things: On the one hand rises with the Kazakhs with XDS Carbon-Tech a major Chinese investorwhich will inject fresh money into team manager Alexandr Vinokourov's recently depleted coffers. And on the other hand, something has to happen in sporting terms. In the three-year rankings, which are decisive for promotion and relegation from the World Tour, the team ranks 21st as the worst World Tour team and is in serious danger of relegation.
It is more than questionable whether the signed riders will still be able to score the necessary points to avoid being relegated from cycling's elite at the end of 2025. Sergio Higuita, Clement Champoussin, Mike Teunissen, Diego Ulissi, Nicola Conci and Wout Poels are good professionals, but none of them are serial winners.
