CTour duo Kirylenka and Siutsou are the favourites with Pearl Adidas domestique Samoilev and Intesa's Kunitski possibly having outside chances.
The course is quite flat:
so this may also bring Hutarovich into play but you feel it should be hilly enough to make a selection.
In the early going we get a six-four split, with Kirylenka sitting with teammate Sobal up there with Siutsou, Kuchinski, Hutarovich and Papok up there.
This is good news really for Kirylenka and Siutsou with Samoilev and Kunitski eliminated from the championship hunt. The Tinkoff plan is to save Kirylenka buy having him sit on Sobal's wheel and at about 160km to go the duo accelerate away from the other four.
Siutsou hesitates looking across as Kuchenski to work with him to shut the gap but after about 30km of trying to get the others to work the Red Bull rider sets off in lone pursuit.
The tinkoff - Siutsou chase seems to be our Belerus championships and it is the Tinkoff riders who seem to be winning it. With 75km to go the gap is 2.55, but then Siutsou begins to inch closer and with 35 to go he has it down to 1.30. The gap back to the remianing riders is nearly seven minutes, seeing the Siutsou is closing Kirylenka eases away from Sobal to go solo.
The tactics work perfectly as Siutsou having been on his own for 100km or so now closes and passes Sobal but Kirylenka is long gone and builds the lead back up again to 3 plus minutes.
The RR champion Kirylenka defended his title in that one and he should have the power to win the TT. His main challenger here is Samoilev of the successful Protour team Pearl Adidas.
Siutsou the challenger in the Road race is a little short of TT ability compared to these two. Kriylenka is clearly on a good day and the chrono's show
So Vasili Kirylenka takes two dominant victories in the Belerussian championships!
