Javier Gómez Noya sweeps the IRONMAN 70.3 Geelong

The Galician triathlete starts the season with victory and gets the classification for the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship

Today has been played in Australia, the expected debut of Javier Gómez Noya this 2019, has done it specifically in the IRONMAN 70.3 Geelong, where I was looking for the pass for him IRONMAN World Championship 70.3 that will be held in Nice this September. And he did it in the best way, getting the victory, although he only needed to finish the test to get it.

Among the favorites, he discarded the last minute absence of Sam Appleton , winner in the editions of 2017 and 2018, leaving as favorite Javier Gómez Noya and Josh Amberger, podium in the last three editions of the event,

The competition began at 7: 00 local time (21: 00 Spanish time) with the 1.900 meters of swimming where the first to get out of the water was Josh Amberger followed by Javier Gómez Noya, to 9 seconds it was done by a group with Matt Franklin, Casey Munro, Luke Bell and James Davy. The rest of the group was close to 1: 30 disadvantage over the head duet. In the transition Amberger suffered mechanical problems, leaving with more than 2 minutes of delay.

At the beginning of the cycling segment, a 5-unit group was quickly formed with Noya, Munro, Bell, Franklin, and Davy. In the step by kilometer 45 Noya led the quintet who had a 1:20 advantage over a chasing group of 5 where Josh Amberger was climbing positions and cutting time from the head.

Everything stayed the same to complete the segment with Matt Franklin who sprinted in the last meters to take 5 seconds ahead of Javier Gómez Noya and the rest of the group. The group of Amberger lost some time and finished the 90 kilometers with 2: 04 of disadvantage.

In the race on foot, Javier Gómez Noya quickly overcame the difference by placing himself as leader and leaving alone with 31 seconds ahead in the race 3,5 kilometer.

Poco a poco Javier Gómez Noya It was increasing his advantage to get the victory in the test with a time of 3: 45: 23 and the pass for the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship.

The second classified was Josh Amberger (3: 49: 38) with a spectacular comeback followed by Tim Van Berkel (4: 36) occupying the third final position. As Noya already had the Slot just to finish, the slot of the champion who gave the test has gone to the second classified Josh Amberger

Noya's times have been 00:20:55 in completing the 1.900 meters of swimming (at an average of: 06/100 meters), 2:09:03 in completing the 90 kilometers of cycling (average of 41,85 km / h) and 1:11:36 (3:24 min / km on average) in running the 21 kilometers of running.

Classification

With this victory they are already 3 Spanish those who are classified for the World Championship IRONMAN 70.3, Javier Gómez Noya, 2 times World Champion of the specialty, Fernando Alarza y Judith Corachan.

Photo: Ironman / Roka Sport

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