Javier Gómez Noya sweeps the Ironman 70.3 Barcelona
The Galician triathlete has mastered the test from start to finish in a test that was a test for his debut in the Ironman of Cairns next June 10
Today has been held in the Catalan town of Calella, a new edition of the Ironman 70.3 Barcelona where they have participated more than 2.800 triathletes
Javier Gómez Noya has fulfilled the predictions and has achieved victory in the middle distance test, with 1.900 meters of swimming in the Mediterranean Sea, 90 kilometers of really demanding cycling along the interior roads of Montseny, with a positive gradient of 1.200 meters and 21 kilometers along the Paseo Marítimo.
Among the favourites for victory were the recent winner of the IRONMAN 70.3 Marbella, the Scotsman David McNameeas well as the Swedish Patrik Nilssonthe Belgian Bart Aernouts, the French Bertrand Billard and the australian Cameron Wurf, among others.
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The race is on fire! Men's pro field is in the water #IM703Barcelona pic.twitter.com/eZuv3IMq08
- IRONMANLive (@IRONMANLive) May 20th 2018
The race started at 7am, where Noya was the first to get out of the water, followed by Adam Bowden just one second behind. From the start of the 90km of cycling, Noya demonstrated his great level of fitness, increasing the gap with respect to the rest of the triathletes by 19 minute after the 1km of cycling.
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Top 5 men bike km 41.1: @Jgomeznoya 1: 41: 19, @DavidMcNameetri + 1: 59, @bartaernouts + 2: 02, Diemunsch + 2: 04, @smales_elliot + 2: 05 #IM703Barcelona pic.twitter.com/DCwMTvlNRC
- IRONMANLive (@IRONMANLive) May 20th 2018
Noya remained in the lead for the rest of the sector to reach the T2 leader with 38 seconds ahead of Belgian Bart Aertnouts with a big comeback as he came out of the water with about 4 minutes disadvantage over Noya and David McNamee
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Our male leaders are off the bike - and the race is definitely on fire: @Jgomeznoya in T2 after 2: 49: 51, @bartaernouts + 0: 38, @DavidMcNameetri + 0: 41 #IM703Barcelona pic.twitter.com/ftujKCHVQP
- IRONMANLive (@IRONMANLive) May 20th 2018
Already in the 21 km of running Noya was unrivaled as he was increasing his advantage from the start to go through the 11 kilometer with 1: 33 on McNamee and almost 3 on Aertnouts
Finally Javier Gómez Noya got the victory in the test with a time of 4: 01: 08, followed by David McNamee (4: 04: 46) and for Bart Aertnouts (4:06:40) occupying third place on the podium.
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What a great race of @Jgomeznoya taking an impressive win - silver for @DavidMcNameetri in 4: 04: 46, 3rd place for @bartaernouts 4:06:40 #IM703Barcelona pic.twitter.com/e1CUxZfz5G
- IRONMANLive (@IRONMANLive) May 20th 2018
Noya's partial times: Swimming: 22:31, cycling 2:25:26, running: 1:10:08
Men's Classification
1 Javier Gomez 4: 01: 392 David McNamee 4: 04: 463 Bart Aernouts 4: 06: 404 Etienne Diemunsch 4: 08: 33
5 Adam Bowden 4: 08: 536 Elliot Smales 4: 12: 227 Andreas Giglmayr 4: 13: 598 Arnaud Guilloux 4: 15: 419 Tobias Drachler 4: 16: 0410 Milan Brons 4: 16: 21As for the women's event, the first to come out of the water was the Norwegian Annie Thoren followed by Fenella Langride and Camila Pedersen.
In the cycling sector Langride took the lead and dominated the race until km 70 where she was caught by Camila Pedersen and Emma Pallant. Finally Pedersen reached T2 with a 1 minute advantage over Pallant and Langride.
In the walking sector of 21 km, Emma Pallant He was climbing distance to reach the lead of the race in the 2 first kilometers of the race leaving alone to get the victory in a time of 4: 32: 54.
The second to enter the finish line was Fenella Langride (4: 39: 04) while Eva Wutti (3: 39.29) with a great comeback finished in third place
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