The deputy of the Senate of the Parliament of the RK, who is the president of the Kazakhstan cycling federation, Darkhan Kaletaev summed up the results of Kazakhstan cycling in 2017, Tengrinews.kz reports with reference to the press service of the federation. Darkhan Kaletaev acknowledged that the domestic cyclists did not go quite smoothly this year. "Literally at the beginning of the season, the team was influenced by external events, which everyone knows, but gradually the team was leveled, especially to the Tour de France," the head of the federation said.He noted that for the first time on the race Kazakhstan was represented by four Kazakhstan riders, the bright performance of "Astana" on the "Big loop" was the victory of Fabio Aru in the fifth stage. "Already on the" Vuelta "brilliant result was achieved by Alexei Lutsenko, having won the fifth stage of the super-modern day. I think this is a significant event for the Kazakh sport, because Lutsenko became one of the few domestic racers who managed to win at the Grand Tour stage, "Darkhan Kaletaev said.

According to the senator, positive dynamics is a merit not only of eminent legionaries. "Young racers now have much to strive for, there is an opportunity to develop professionally.Young example is Yevgeny Gidich.This year he moved from Vino Astana Motors to Astana.In our interests to find and develop talented young racers in the country. vector is now our priority, "- said the head of the federation. Speaking about the national team, Darkhan Kaletaev also noted the success of its participants. "Kazakhstan was and remains the leader of the Asian continent, and the world championship held in September showed that we are also among the ten strongest countries in the world." Alexei Lutsenko took the ninth place in the group race, Igor Zhang took the fifth place in the individual race among juniors, "recalled he.

Darkhan Kaletaev recalled that this year Kazakhstan's juniors for the first time ranked second in the sum of all the stages of the Nations Cup."And this is the foundation on which further development of our cycling is built," he said.According to Darhan Kaletaev, the cycle track is a separate head of cycling."At the end of February 2018, the World Cup will be held in the Netherlands, these athletes of the national team will perform at five World Cup stages, two of which are already behind.In the stages in Poland and the United Kingdom, Nikita Panasenko scored an incredible success: he won in the race on points and in race scratch, and his rivals were the strongest racers of the planet, the current champions of the world and the champions of the past.This is a really big success, "- he recalls.The senator recalled the planned construction of a track track in the southern region of the country. In his opinion, this will undoubtedly give impetus to the development of this discipline.

"This year in the southern capital, the professional road race" Tour of Almaty "passed for the fifth time, and for the first time it gained the status of a multi-day event and was successful. It is worth to express great gratitude to the city akimat for the fact that such a race exists and it progresses every year In addition, Almaty akimat for the second year in a row renders great support in holding the national cycling championship on the highway, possibly Almaty will become a traditional venue for the national championship, "Darkhan Kaletaev suggested.In addition, the head of the federation noted the increase in the number of students in schools and cycling departments in the regions, especially in Almaty and Astana, saying that cycling will develop in other areas."In recent years, we have been able to lay a solid foundation around which everything is gradually built up, of course, it can not be without problems, as in any other sport." The main thing is to approach them systematically, "summed up Darkhan Kaletaev.

Source: Tengrinews.kz