Astana Qazaqstan Team welcomes newcomers
Kazakh riders Daniil Marukhin and Anton Kuzmin became newcomers of Astana Qazaqstan Team, Kazinform News Agency reports.
As the team’s press office informed on its website, Daniil Marukhin, 24, is going to make a big step into the WorldTour with Astana Qazaqstan Team. Marukhin signed a two-year deal with the Kazakh project for 2024 and 2025.
Daniil Marukhin has spent six seasons in different continental teams from Kazakhstan, scoring a set of high results both on the regional and continental levels. In 2023 Marukhin won the Tour of Van, Grand Prix Kültepe and became third in the 100th Anniversary Tour of Republic in Turkey, took a sixth place in the General Classification of the Tour of Iran and Aziz Shusha. Besides, for several times Daniil reached the podium of the Kazakhstan National Championships and U23 Asian Cycling Championships.
26-year-old Anton Kuzmin signed a one-year contract with the team for the season of 2024.
Kuzmin turned pro in 2020, spending two seasons in the UCI Pro Continental team and getting a valuable experience in a number of big professional races as Il Lombardia, Milano-Torino, Vuelta a Andalucia, Vuelta a Murcia, Tour of the Alps and others.
In 2023 Kuzmin won a stage of the Tour of Thailand and the Tour of Kandovan, became third in the General Classification of the Tour of Iran, fourth in the Tour of Istanbul and fifth in the Tour of Sharjah.
