The Men's State Team Championship in road cycling for 2010 was held in the vicinity of Sliven. The two-day format offered an Individual time trial over a distance of 13 km on the first day and a mass-start over a distance of 117 km distance on a closed route. Simultaneously, with a small time difference and on the same routes was held the State Individual Championship for veteran riders, a story about whose tense struggle and dramatic denouements, accompanied by a rich gallery of images can be found in our news section, here.

Individual time trial in the first competition day has offered to the group of 21 riders from teams of Cycling "Dobrich, Nessebar, Hemus 1896 - VIVELO Troyan and "Tsar Simeon" - Plovdiv a cloudless sky mercilessly burning sun and a lack of even a slight breath of wind. In the grueling heat cyclists gave everything in the fight against the ruthless march of the stopwach. The winner - Vladimir Koev, UCI Continental Team Hemus 1896 - VIVELO, achieved 16:01 min, which was equal to 48,699 km/h average speed. On the second place, at 9 seconds of the winner ranked the exceptional time-trial rider Pavel Shumanov, Hemus 1896 - VIVELO and third, with a time of 16:15 min - Evgeni Balev, Hemus 1896 - VIVELO, which is in an excellent form. These riders participated in the competition with bicycles Fly VIVELO , which are specialized for ITT. Exceptional abilities of these men turned once again the whizzing scream Fly on the asphalt in a fiesta and winning virtually confirmed the enormous potential of these precision machines. Fourthly, the time 16:34 min, finishing Usenet Angelov of "Cycling" Dobrich. Conquest of the top three was enough for the team of Hemus 1896 - Vivelo to take first place in the Interim Team Standings with 1:43 min before the second - "Cycling" Dobrich.

Scheduled for early morning on the second day start a general offer to athletes and spectators more easily bearable weather. Events developed very fast - even on the first lap of the track loop with a length of 19,5 km two young players - one of the "Cycling" Dobrich and one of Tsar Simeon Plovdiv - a successful attack and get away from the main group. Lead to loose is increasing continuously. In the third tour group was detached from the player to catch up Nessebar, a competitor of Tsar Simeon Plovdiv behind. By the fourth lap the lead group of detached two reached 1:40 min. Only during the sixth, the last major tour group was able to catch fugitives and has become final in a very dramatic fight between 9 contestant who crossed the finish with identical times of 2:48:59 hours, as the first was Daniel Petrov of Hemus 1896 - Vivelo . He with a powerful final sprint managed to pull victory from Krasimir Vasilev and Martin Grashevo, players of "Cycling" Dobrich, who made his attack before the 150 m final and the last meters were headed. Competitors Shumanov Paul, Svetoslav Chanliev and Evgeni Balev by Hemus 1896 - Vivelo ended with a time equal to that of the winner and thus ensured not only total victory in the team start, but in the final team classification of the State Team Championship for men, with overall lead of 1:50 min before the second - the team of "Cycling" Dobrich.  | See Photo Gallery