Branislau Samoilau

Branislau Samoilau (Браніслаў Самойлаў; born 25 May 1985) is a Belarusian road bicycle racer, who rides for Belarusian amateur team.

Career
Born in Vitebsk, Samoilau competed professionally for between 2007 and 2008, a brief stint for  in 2009, for  in 2009 and 2010, the  in 2011 and 2012 and  between 2014 and 2017. Samoilau won the Belarusian National Road Race Championships in 2007. He was national time trial champion of Belarus in 2009, 2010 and 2012.

Samoilau did not compete in the professional peloton in 2013, but joined for the 2014 season.

During the 2015 Tour of Austria, Samoilau was fined a month's salary by his team for having said "fucking nigger" to Natnael Berhane, a black rider from Eritrea.

Major results
Source:


 * 2004
 * 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège U23
 * 1st Chieti–Casalincontrado–Blockhaus
 * 3rd GP Capodarco
 * 4th Overall Volta a Lleida
 * 1st Mountains classification
 * 7th Overall Giro delle Regioni
 * 1st Stage 5


 * 2005
 * 1st MaillotBielorrusia.PNG Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
 * 1st Overall Volta a Lleida
 * 1st Stages 1, 2a (ITT) & 5
 * 1st Trofeo Franco Balestra
 * 1st Ruota d'Oro
 * 9th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
 * 10th Gran Premio Palio del Recioto


 * 2006
 * 1st MaillotBielorrusia.PNG Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships


 * 2007
 * National Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotBielorrusia.PNG Road race
 * 2nd Time trial
 * 3rd Giro del Lazio
 * 6th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
 * 9th Time trial, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
 * 10th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore


 * 2008
 * 1st Stage 5 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
 * 5th Overall Vuelta a Murcia


 * 2009
 * 1st MaillotBielorrusia.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 3rd Overall Tour of Austria
 * 10th Subida al Naranco


 * 2010
 * 1st MaillotBielorrusia.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships


 * 2011
 * 3rd Road race, National Road Championships


 * 2012
 * 1st MaillotBielorrusia.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships


 * 2013
 * 2nd Race Horizon Park II
 * 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 4th Overall Tour of Małopolska
 * 1st Stage 3
 * 9th Overall Baltic Chain Tour


 * 2014
 * 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 4th Overall Cycling Tour of Sibiu
 * 1st Stages 2 & 3a (TTT)
 * 4th Coupe des Carpathes


 * 2015
 * 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 6th Overall Tour of Croatia


 * 2016
 * National Road Championships
 * 2nd Time trial
 * 3rd Road race


 * 2017
 * 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali


 * 2018
 * 1st Race Horizon Park Maidan
 * 1st Race Horizon Park Classic
 * 1st Stage 2 Tour of Mersin
 * National Road Championships
 * 2nd Time trial
 * 3rd Road race
 * 2nd Minsk Cup
 * 3rd Grand Prix Side
 * 4th Overall Tour de Serbie
 * 1st Stage 3
 * 9th Overall Tour of Almaty
 * 10th Grand Prix Alanya


 * 2019
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Mesopotamia
 * 1st Stage 1
 * 1st Grand Prix Gazipaşa
 * 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 2nd Overall Tour of Mersin
 * 1st Stage 1
 * 8th Overall Tour of China I
 * 10th Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake
 * 10th Overall Tour of Xingtai


 * 2020
 * 1st GP Manavgat
 * 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships