Dumoulin took 1 hour, 3 minutes, 30 seconds and 69 hundredths over its 53.5 kilometers in the state of Virginia.
Kiryienka, earlier this year the best in the time trial in the Tour of Italy and at the European Games in Baku, was with his finishing time of 1: 02.29,45 more than a minute faster than the Dutchman. The 34-year-old Team Sky rider was once more on the podium at the World Championships time trial. In 2012 he took bronze behind Tony Martin and Taylor Phinney.
The Eastern European rider was hard at every point between the fastest and stopped over the finish line nine seconds ahead of the Italian Adriano Malori. The bronze went equally surprising to the Frenchman Jérôme Coppel (1: 02.56,07). The Spaniard Jonathan Castroviejo came less than three seconds short of the podium.
Top favorite and triple world champion Martin disappointed with seventh place, fifteen seconds of Dumoulin. The Australian Rohan Dennis was the number four midway, but the winner of the time trial in the Tour then got a puncture and dropped back to sixth place on the line.
Wilco Kelderman had hoped for a place in the top ten, but the Dutch champion came up with a final time of 1: 05.00,63 no further than the 23rd
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Dumoulin last year in the Spanish Ponferrada still third behind Bradley Wiggins and Martin, but he struggled in the run-up to the trial in Richmond with an injury to his seat. His participation in the race against the clock was Tuesday even as doubtful by a pinched nerve.
The rider Giant-Alpecin also established this year a candidate for a podium finish at the World Cup, as he won the time trial in the Tour of Spain, the Tour de Suisse and the Tour of the Basque Country. In the Tour, he finished fourth in the first stage, a race against the clock in Utrecht
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24-year-old Dumoulin recorded Wednesday at the first intermediate point after sixteen kilometers the fourth time, but was midway in the second measuring point dropped to eighth place.
At the third intermediate point after 42.6 kilometers was the Dutchman, who earlier this month made such an impression in the Vuelta, again climbed to the sixth time, but the stage was maintained in the last eleven kilometers off the screen.
Former Tour winner Wiggins announced immediately after his victory last year all that he would not defend his world title in Richmond because he focuses on his way to the Rio Games in track cycling
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