Javier Gómez Noya sweeps the Polar Cannes International Triathlon

This morning a new edition of the Polar Cannes International Triathlon was held in the French town of Cannes, with the victory of the double world champion of Ironman 70.3 Javier Gómez Noya

Javier Gómez Noya continues steadily his way to the expected Ironman debut the next June 10 in the Australian city of Cairns and a few weeks of the celebration of the test shows a great state of form, proof of this is the victory today at the Polar Cannes International Triathlon.

Video goal Javier Gómez Noya

The test had certain distances, with Swimming 2.000m, 107 hard cycling kms with more than 1.700m of unevenness and 16 km of running race.

The competition started the 8: 00 in the morning with a masculine and feminine mass start, being able to see together at the start of the race Javier Gómez Noya together with Lucy Charles, the big favorite in the female category.

After the first 2.000m of swimming, Robin Pasteur reached T1 first, followed by Noya at 5”. The first transition was long, with about 500m in length, where the triathletes had to take the bag with the helmet, take off the neoprene, put on the helmet and then run in search of the bike. It was at this moment that Javi became the leader, after running much faster than Pastuer in the meters that were up to the bike, so Noya was the first to face the tough 107 km of cycling.

Video T1 Javier Gómez Noya

Gómez Noya commanded the competition during the first kilometers of cycling, but at km 42 Sam Laidlow passed in the lead, with Javi second seguido closely Pasteurizer y Mathis. Sam Laindlow had a mechanical problem on the second climb to Tanneron and Noya is the leader, with a 40” advantage over Malta Plappert.

The 16km of running race were for the Galician triathlete Javier Gómez Noya, the best triathlete in the history of Olympic distance, who won the final victory at the Polar Cannes International Triathlon with a time of 4: 27: 10 and covering the 16 km without slowing down the advantage by more than 12 minutes of advantage over the second classified Kévin Maurel (4: 39: 32). The third to arrive has been  Malte Plappert (4: 40: 24)

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