Road: Astana Cycling Team Number One In ProTour

Levi Leipheimer held on to his 3th place on the final podium of the Dauphiné Libéré. The whole team performed well and defended with success its first place in the ProTour Team Classification. Astana Cycling Team leads with 110 points. Team CSC is second, 17 points behind, Caisse d’Epargne third, 18 points behind.

While Andreas Klöden and his team-mates defend the Kazakh colors in the Tour de Suisse (ProTour), another team starts in the Netherlands.

The team line-up for the next race:

Ster Elektrotour (Neth)

17-21/06/2008

Riders: Koen de Kort, Thomas Frei, René Haselbacher, Benoît Joachim, Aaron Kemps, Roman Kireyev, Julien Mazet & Andrey Zeits

D.S.: Sean Yates

Astana Victories in 2008- 17

Prologue Dauphiné Libéré (08-06) – LEIPHEIMER / Overall Classification Giro d’Italia (01-06) – CONTADOR / Overall Classification Tour de Romandie (04-05) – KLODEN / 3th stage (time trial) Tour de Romandie (02-05) – KLODEN / 1^st stage Tour de Romandie (30-04) – IGLINSKIY /  Grand Prix of Istanbul (13-04) – RAST / Overall Classification Tour of Basque Country (12-04) – CONTADOR  / 6th stage (time trial) Tour of Basque Country (12-04) – CONTADOR / 1^st stage Tour of Basque Country (07-04) – CONTADOR / Overall Classification Tour of Castilla y Leon (29-03) – CONTADOR / 4th stage Vuelta a Castilla y Leon  (27-03) – CONTADOR / 1st stage (time trial) Vuelta a Castilla y Leon (24-03) – CONTADOR / Campina Ronde van het Groene Hart (23-03) – VAITKUS /  2nd stage Vuelta a Murcia (05-03) - RUBIERA / Overall Classification Tour of California (24-02) - LEIPHEIMER / 5th stage (time trial) Tour of California (22-02) - LEIPHEIMER / 2nd stage Tour of Algarve (21-02) - VAITKUS.