Welcome to the Baltic championships, where we will see the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian national champions being crowned. We start off with the road race, with the course being a hilly circuit which we will see 9 laps, 109 kilometres in total.
Just eight riders attend the two races, with these not being the biggest of cycling nations. That means the chances are high though of a victory for those that do race. Those are:
Puusepp Taaramae
Ansons Skujins (2012 Winner) Flaksis
Bagdonas Kruopis Navardauskas
As the race begins, a group of four decides to attack up the road, with both Lithuanians Bagdonas and Navardauskas being involved as well as two of the Latvians Ansons and Flaksis.
Over the day these four slowly grow their gap to the group behind, and skipping to 20 kilometres to go it is at 11 minutes, so it's clear these four will fight out the two titles up for grabs.
Into the final ten kilometres Flaksis makes his bid for the Latvian title with an attack!
In the group behind minutes behind, there is also the Estonian title up for grabs. Taaramae decides to attack to try and take it, while Skujins also fancies an attack despite not having a chance of taking the Latvian jersey.
Up at the front, Flaksis is into the final 5000 metres and has amassed over a minutes gap so it looks like he will take the race and become the Latvian champion.
There's still the Lithuanian title to be won though in the group of three behind. Bagdonas looks strong as he opens up the sprint.
He won't catch Flaksis though, who takes the Baltic championships and therefore the Latvian national title.
Bagdonas does win the sprint behind ahead of Ansons and Navardauskas. That's enough to become the Lithuanian champion.
Taking the last national title on offer is Taaramae in fifth, a long way down on winner Flaksis. He will wear the Estonian jersey next year, finishing well ahead of his only other rival Puusepp.
Next up is the ITT. Same 8 riders, different discipline. The 46 kilometre course should provide a good test for the riders participating. The two best time-triallists here are undoubtedly Taaramae and Navardauskas, so we'll have to see if they can be beaten.
First to finish is Kruopis. The Bacardi rider sets a time of 56'18", a decent effort. We'll see how his time holds up.
Then we get the three Latvians finishing along with Puusepp, with Ansons proving to be the strongest of them, finishing with a time of 56'07". That makes him the Latvian champion against the clock. It also puts him ahead of Kruopis' time.
Bagdonas then goes and beats Ansons straight away though, with a good time of 55'40".
That's the time that Navardauskas has to beat if he wants to become the Lithuanian champion, as he powers around the course.
Also setting his time is Taaramae, who has to beat a mediocre time set by Puusepp, which shouldn't prove to be too much of an obstacle.
Navardauskas comes into the finishing straight soon and his time looks to be quick. As he crosses the line he stops the clock on 55'08", a time which comfortably beats Bagdonas by 32 seconds. The Festina rider takes this Lithuanian title.
Finally, Taaramae finishes. His time of 54'14", which he finishes on, comfortably gives him the fastest time today and hands him the Estonian title, which he holds in both disciplines now.
