2010 Astana season
| Astana | |
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| 2010 season | |
Alberto Contador at the 2010 Tour de France team presentation.
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| UCI code | AST |
| Status | UCI ProTour team |
| World Ranking | 8th (768 points) |
| Manager | Yvon Sanquer |
| Main sponsor(s) | Samruk-Kazyna |
| Based | Kazakhstan |
| Bicycles | Specialized |
| Groupset | SRAM? |
| Season victories | |
| One-day races | 2 |
| Stage race overall | 4 |
| Stage race stages | 10 |
| Grand Tours | none |
| National Championships | 2 |
| Most Wins | Alberto Contador (8 wins) |
| Best ranked rider | Alexander Vinokourov (11th) |
The 2010 season for the Astana cycling team began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every ProTour event.
Astana's 2010 season marked a great transition for the team, as went from the leadership of Johan Bruyneel to Yvon Sanquer. The team similarly saw many notable riders depart, including Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, Andreas Klöden, and the rest of Astana's squad from the 2009 Tour de France save champion Alberto Contador. Most of these riders were part of Armstrong's new team in 2010, Team RadioShack. Contador and Alexander Vinokourov, who returned from suspension late in the 2009 season, were the team's leaders in 2010.
Ages as of January 1, 2010
Maxim Iglinskiy won Montepaschi Strade Bianche in March, a rare spring season one-day win in the team's history. He made his race-winning move against breakaway companions Thomas Lövkvist and Michael Rogers 200 m (660 ft) from the finish line, as the road narrowed. He and Lövkvist nearly touched shoulders and crashed, but both held their lines and stayed upright. Iglinskiy, who had never ridden this particular race before, called it "the most beautiful win of [his] career."
Contador scored the team's first victory of 2010 in the Volta ao Algarve, a mountain stage which finished at Malhão. The victory also gave him the race's overall leadership. A solid second place in the event's closing individual time trial meant Contador retained the lead through the conclusion of the race.
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