Alexey Alexandrovich Lutsenko (Kazakh: Алексей Александрович Луценко; born 7 September 1992) is a Kazakh professional cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Astana Qazaqstan Team.[4]

Alexey Lutsenko
Lutsenko at the 2017 Tour de France
Personal information
Full nameAlexey Alexandrovich Lutsenko
Born (1992-09-07) 7 September 1992 (age 32)
Petropavl, Kazakhstan
Height1.74 m (5 ft 8+12 in)[1]
Weight74 kg (163 lb; 11 st 9 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamAstana Qazaqstan Team
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeRouleur
Professional teams
2012Continental Team Astana
2013–Astana[2][3]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2020)
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (2017)

Stage races

Arctic Race of Norway (2019)
Tour of Oman (2018, 2019)
Tour of Hainan (2016)

Single-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2018, 2019, 2023)
National Time Trial Championships (2015, 2019, 2023)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing  Kazakhstan
UCI Road World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Valkenburg Under-23 road race
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Incheon Time trial
Gold medal – first place 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Road race
Gold medal – first place 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Time trial
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou Time trial
Silver medal – second place 2022 Hangzhou Road race
Lutsenko at the 2018 Tour of Austria, celebrating victory on the sixth stage

Career

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In 2012 he won the under-23 road race at the UCI Road World Championships in the Netherlands.[5] At the 2015 Tour de Suisse, Lutsenko put in an attack after the penultimate climb of the day and it led him to victory on stage 8.[6]

In 2019, Lutsenko had his most prolific season to that point, with ten individual victories. His first start of the season, the Tour of Oman, saw him win three stages, the points classification and the overall general classification.[7] After top-ten finishes at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (fourth) and Strade Bianche (seventh),[8][9] Lutsenko won a stage and the mountains classification at Tirreno–Adriatico.[10][11] He finished seventh overall at the Critérium du Dauphiné,[11] before winning both the time trial and the road race by more than a minute at the Kazakh National Road Championships.[11] After finishing inside the top twenty placings at the Tour de France, Lutsenko won the Arctic Race of Norway on the final stage, overturning a three-second pre-stage deficit to Warren Barguil.[12] He finished fourth at the Deutschland Tour and second at the Coppa Ugo Agostoni before two wins in three days, at the Coppa Sabatini and the Memorial Marco Pantani[11] – becoming the latter race's first non-Italian winner.

At the start of the 2020 season, and prior to the COVID-19 pandemic-enforced suspension of racing, Lutsenko took third-place overall finishes at the Tour de la Provence (winning the points classification), and the UAE Tour.[13] He then won the sixth stage of the Tour de France following a 17-kilometre (11-mile) solo attack.[14] Lutsenko's next victory did not come until the 2021 Critérium du Dauphiné, when he won the fourth stage individual time trial.[15] He moved into the race lead after the sixth stage,[16] but ultimately finished second overall behind Richie Porte.[17] He recorded his best overall finish at the Tour de France with a seventh-place finish in the 2021 edition,[18] but took only one further victory during the rest of the year, at the Coppa Ugo Agostoni.[19]

Lutsenko opened his 2022 season with victory in the inaugural edition of the Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior, soloing the last 25 kilometres (16 miles) to the win.[20] He finished inside the top ten placings at the Vuelta a Andalucía (ninth),[21] missing out on a stage victory to Wout Poels in a two-up sprint in Baza.[22] At the Tour de France, he worked his way up the general classification, moving into the top ten overall after two high stage finishes on consecutive summit finishes at Peyragudes and Hautacam.[23][24] He ultimately finished 9th, almost 23 minutes down on race winner Jonas Vingegaard.[25]

Personal life

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Lutsenko and his family live in Monaco.[26]

Major results

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Source:[27]

2010
Asian Junior Road Championships
1st   Road race
2nd   Time trial
3rd Overall 3-Etappen-Rundfahrt
9th Overall Driedaagse van Axel
2011
9th ZLM Tour
2012
1st   Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
1st Stage 5 Tour de l'Avenir
1st Stage 1b Tour of Bulgaria
1st Stage 5 Giro della Valle d'Aosta
National Road Championships
2nd Road race
2nd Time trial
2nd Grand Prix des Marbriers
3rd Overall Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay
5th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
8th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
2014 (2 pro wins)
1st   Time trial, Asian Games
1st Tour of Almaty
4th Overall Danmark Rundt
1st   Points classification
1st Stage 5 (ITT)
2015 (3)
1st   Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Tour of Almaty
1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse
2016 (4)
1st   Overall Tour of Hainan
1st Stage 8
1st Tour of Almaty
1st Stage 5 Paris–Nice
3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne
2017 (3)
1st   Team time trial, Asian Road Championships
1st   Overall Tour of Almaty
1st Points classification
1st Stage 1
Vuelta a España
1st Stage 5
  Combativity award Stage 5
3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen
9th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
2018 (5)
Asian Games
1st   Road race
1st   Time trial
National Road Championships
1st   Road race
5th Time trial
1st   Overall Tour of Oman
1st Stage 6 Tour of Austria
2nd Overall Tour of Turkey
1st Stage 4
2019 (10)
National Road Championships
1st   Road race
1st   Time trial
1st   Overall Tour of Oman
1st   Points classification
1st Stages 2, 3 & 5
1st   Overall Arctic Race of Norway
1st   Points classification
1st Coppa Sabatini
1st Memorial Marco Pantani
Tirreno–Adriatico
1st   Mountains classification
1st Stage 4
2nd Coppa Ugo Agostoni
4th Overall Deutschland Tour
4th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
7th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
7th Strade Bianche
2020 (1)
1st Stage 6 Tour de France
3rd Overall Tour de la Provence
1st   Points classification
3rd Overall UAE Tour
2021 (2)
1st Coppa Ugo Agostoni
2nd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
1st Stage 4 (ITT)
2nd GP Miguel Induráin
4th Veneto Classic
7th Overall Tour de France
8th Overall Okolo Slovenska
2022 (1)
1st Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior
8th Overall Tour de France
9th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
2023 (9)
Asian Games
1st   Time trial
2nd   Road race
National Road Championships
1st   Road race
1st   Time trial
1st   Overall Giro di Sicilia
1st Stage 4
1st   Overall Tour of Turkey
1st Stage 3
1st Circuito de Getxo
1st Memorial Marco Pantani
5th Amstel Gold Race
5th Coppa Sabatini
2024 (2)
1st   Overall Giro d'Abruzzo
1st   Points classification
1st   Mountains classification
1st Stage 3
3rd Trofeo Matteotti
8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

General classification results timeline

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Grand Tour general classification results
Grand Tour 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
  Giro d'Italia 87 DNF
  Tour de France DNF 62 71 19 46 7 8 40 DNF
  Vuelta a España 100 75 71
Major stage race general classification results
Stage races 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
  Paris–Nice 71 48 DNF DNF
  Tirreno–Adriatico 85 64 15 13 DNF
  Volta a Catalunya Has not contested during his career
  Tour of the Basque Country 101 NH 78
  Tour de Romandie DNF DNF DNF DNF
  Critérium du Dauphiné 69 75 48 7 35 2
  Tour de Suisse 25 NH 19 DNF 65
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
IP In progress

References

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