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 met the forecasts and has achieved victory in the medium distance test, with 1.900 meters of swimming in the Mediterranean Sea, 90 kilometers of really demanding cycling on the interior roads of Montseny, with a positive difference in altitude of 1.200 meters and 21 kilometers for the Paseo Marítimo.
Among the favorites for the 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 test began at 7 in the morning, where the first to get out of the water was Noya followed just a second away by Adam Bowden. Already from the beginning of the 90 km of cycling, Noya demonstrated his great level of form, increasing the differences with respect to the rest of the triathletes passing through the 19 km of cycling with 1 minute of advantage.
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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
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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
Video T2
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.
Video goal Javier Gómez Noya
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 partials: 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 was in the lead and dominated the test until km 70 where it was reached by Camila Pedersen and Emma Pallant, Finally Pedersen reached T2 with 1 minute of 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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