Baltic States National Championships - CNEstonia, June 28- July 1, 2001Schedule
Day 1 - June 28: Estonian time trial championships, OtepääResults - 30 km1 Jaan Kirsipuu (Ag2r-Prévoyance) 38.44 2 Markku Ainsalu 1.43 3 Andre Aduson 1.45 4 Margus Salumets 1.53 5 Tarmo Raudsepp 2.06 6 Sigvard Kukk 2.42 7 Oskari Kargu 2.46 8 Allan Oras 2.53 9 Innar Mändoja (Ag2r-Prévoyance) 3.10 10 Janno Aksin 3.36 Day 2 - July 1: Baltic road race championships (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)Rumsas, Tombak, and Reiss Baltic championsBy Arturs Vaiders The men's road race was held in Riga, in the Mezaparks recreation area. It was 22 laps of a 9.2 km course, rather flat, but with lot of corners. In the second lap, three riders (Rumsas, Silovs, and Tombak) succesfully broke clear. After few laps Reiss, Belohvosciks caught the leaders. The biggest gap was more than five minutes. Two kilometres from the finish, finish Rumsas attacked for the gold.
Results - 209 km1 Raimondas Rumsas (Ltu) Fassa Bortolo 4.42.26 (43.06 kmh) 2 Andris Reiss (Lat) Sintofarm 0.11 3 Juris Silovs (Lat) Cofidis 0.37 4 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Lampre-Daikin 5 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis 6 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu) Gerolsteiner 4.45 7 Vladimir Smirnov (Ltu) CCC Mat 8 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2r Prévoyance 9 Andrus Aug (Est) Amore & Vita-Beretta 10 Markku Ainsalu (Est) 11 Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Domo-Farm Frites 5.06 Lithuanian championships 1 Raimondas Rumsas (Fassa Bortolo) 2 Saulius Ruskys (Gerolsteiner) 3 Vladimir Smirnov (CCC Mat) Latvian championships 1 Andris Reiss (Sintofarm) 2 Juris Silovs (Cofidis) 3 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lampre-Daikin) 4 Romans Vainsteins (Domo-Farm Frites) 5 Olegs Melehs 6 Igor Dobrovolskis 7 Armands Baranovskis 8 Rostislavs Stapjaks 9 Guntars Mihailovs 10 Juris Visockis Estonian championships 1 Janek Tombak (Cofidis) 2 Jaan Kirsipuu (Ag2r-Prevoyance) 3 Andrus Aug (Amore & Vita) 4 Markku Ainsalu 5 Oskari Kargu 6 Indrek Rannamaa 7 Sigvard Kukk 8 Raivo Maimre 9 Caspar Austa 10 Innar Mändoja (Ag2r-Prevoyance) Courtesy of Janno Toots |