12 years of the first title of Javier Gómez Noya.

Today as Javi won the sub23 World Championship in Queenstown

Today 6 December 2015 are 12 years of the first world title of Javier Gómez Noya. Today as Javi won the sub23 World Championship in Queenstown (New Zealand) ... the first of his 10 world champion titles.

It was the month of November of 2003 when Javi was in his period of rest after the triathlon season in which he had hardly been able to compete for the CSD veto. Three weeks before the World Cup, he received the coach's call to run in the New Zealand sub23 World Championship, the veto had been lifted and Javi was not going to miss that opportunity for which he had fought so much, so in only three weeks it would be measured with the best promises of the world triathlon.

A brief summary of what Gómez Noya's first triumph was in an ITU test is summarized in some sentences of his "A pulse" libo (P. Alonso and A. Bruquetas, Ed Córner) in the epilogue written by Chris McCormarck:

"Never in my life had I seen anyone with such brute strength in the three disciplines. [...] I've never seen anything like it before. For the first time in my career I appreciated a change in my sport that I could not face. [...] An impeccable athlete in swimming, cycling and running. He was the first. "

Javier Gómez Noya was the first triathlete who did not excel in one discipline ... but would be the best in all three. He changed his sport and how to compete in triathlon in drafting events.

This sub23 world title was followed by nine more: 5 Elite ITU, 1 IM 70.3, 1 X-Terra and 2 5150 Hy-Vee.

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