Javier Gómez Noya will receive the Princess of Asturias Award on Friday

After several years remaining on the verge of winning the prize, the triathlete Javier Gómez Noya has been chosen as the winner of the Princess of Asturias of Sports

Javier Gómez Noya He had been chosen as a finalist along with three other candidates from other sports such as Sebastian Loeb (rally driver, winner of the last 9 World Cups), Lindsey Vonn, an American skier with 76 victories in the World Cup and the New Zealand rugby team the All Blacks

The story of Javier Gómez Noya

Javier Gómez Noya is the current World and European champion and only triathlete with five world titles, his career progressed rapidly, proclaiming Spain's duathlon champion and 23 sub triathlon and junior European champion, despite the bureaucratic obstacles he had to save after be detected a heart disease.

Javier Gómez Noya was born in 25 March 1983 in Basel (Switzerland), where his parents worked, but when he was three months his family moved to live in the town of Ferrol in Corunna. At the 11 years he began to practice swimming, a sport in which he soon began to achieve regional titles in the lower categories.

In 1998 he made his debut in the Olympic triathlon of Castropol (Asturias), where, without having trained the modalities of cycling and running, he finished second in the youth category. Since then he has devoted himself exclusively to this modality, in which he has achieved numerous successes, including five world titles and the silver medal in the Olympic Games in London, the first of a Spanish in this discipline.

 "I am very happy and proud that some awards of such international prestige recognize my sporting career, but, above all, because of the importance it has for a sport, triathlon, which is not among the most mediatic.

This recognition satisfies me even more seeing the level of all the finalists and many others who did not reach the final. Any of them, for the merits achieved, deserved the prize as much or more than me".

Noya gets this well-deserved prize for a great sports career in the world sports world.

Further information: http://www.fpa.es/es/premios-princesa-de-asturias/