14 years of the first world of Javier Gómez Noya, the Sub 23.

Today December 6, 2017 marks the 14th anniversary of the first world title won by Javier Gómez Noya, in the town of Queenstown in New Zealand.

The country of the antipodes has always been one of the places where Javier Gómez Noya has had better results since in addition to the 2003 world title, he also won the New Playmouth world cup in 2008, the grand final of the Auckland 2012 world series, and 2 wins in the WTS in the New Zealand capital in 2013 and 2014 .

Javier Gómez Noya has to his credit with 11 World Championships

Palmares Javier Gomez Noya

The sub23 world championship was decided in the race on foot where Noya was the fastest (in the elite test only 2 men ran more than him) taking the gold medal with a final time of 1: 59: 06, followed by the Australian Nick Hornman at 27” and from German Steffen Justus at 34”. Also note that in this test Ramón Ejeda it was 10º and Jose Manuel Tovar 19o.

The Queentown World Championships were very positive for the Spanish national team in general, as the same day Zuriñe Rodríguez achieved the bronze medal reaching the finish line behind the great Mirinda Carfrae (3 times winner in Kona). That day Zuri also achieved the best partial on foot of all the competitors ... something that had much merit with Mirinda in competition. He also competed but I can not finish the race Soraya Pérez.

As regards the elite competition that was played the next day Ivan Raña He won the silver medal. The Llanos brothers also finished the test, Eneko Llanos in 27ª position and Hektor Llanos in the 39th. In the women's competition Ana Burgos achieved a meritorious 8th position, while Pilar Hidalgo was 27th and Ainhoa ​​Murua 34 ª.

Javier Gómez Noya Winning the U23 World Cup

To finish, we must highlight four female athletes from the junior women's competition who in the following years have been among the best in the world: Vanessa Fernades (3ª), Helen Jenkins (5ª), Daniela Ryf (6ª) and Lisa Norden (10ª)

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