Alexey Lutsenko – a 25-year-old Kazakhstan rider, a true leader of Astana Team in the classic races. In the last season he improved a lot, getting some strong results both, in the classics and the Grand Tours. Thus, Alexey took a solid third place at the Dwars door Vlaanderen, won a stage at the Vuelta a España and for the 4th time won the Tour of Almaty, this time in general classification of the race. Besides, he took a nice 9th place in the road race of the UCI World Road Championships in Norway!

Best results:

2017

1^st place – stage 5, Vuelta a España

1^st place – stage 1 & general classification, Tour of Almaty

2^nd place – stage 18, Vuelta a España

3^rd place – Dwars door Vlaanderen

2016

1^st place – stage 5, Paris – Nice

1^st place – Tour of Almaty

1^st place – stage 8 & general classification, Tour of Hainan

2^nd place – stage 1, Driedaagse De Panne – Koksijde

3^rd place – general classification, Driedaagse De Panne – Koksijde

2015

1^st place – stage 8, Tour de Suisse

1^st place – individual time trial, Kazakhstan National Championships

1^st place – Tour of Almaty

2014

1^st place – stage 5, Tour of Denmark

1^st place – Tour of Almaty

2^nd place – stage 9, Vuelta a España

2012

1^st place – road race, U23 UCI Road World Championships