Javier Gómez Noya vs. Sebatian Kienle stellar duel in the Ironman World Championship 70.3

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The Galician and the German are the main favorites to the victory in the next Ironman 70.3 World Championship to be played on Sunday 10 September in the American city of Chattanooga.

A few months ago we made an article where we explained the reasons why the 70.3 Ironman 2017 World Championship could have been "The race of the 21st century" ... but there have been different casualties like that of Alistair Brownlee by injury or those of Jan Frodeno, Lionel Sanders o Craig Alexander who have given up competing, so the list of favorites is mainly reduced to Javier Gomez Noya and Sebatian Kienle, together with the current world champion Tim Reed that also deserves all the "gallons", and other triathletes that have shone this year in medium distance at the international level ..

Javier Gomez Noya, the best triathlete in Olympic distance history.

The Galician is on the way to be also in MD or distance 70.3, because despite having competed only in 8 races, the 7 that has finished has made them on the podium, achieving the victory in 6 of them, where in all of them he also made the best partial on foot.  Only two triathletes have crossed the finish line before Noya in a medium distance test, it was the Germans Jan Frodeno y Sebatian Kienle in the Austrian World Championship of 2015, where Javi "only" could be third.

Sebastian Kienle has been the only one able to beat Noya

Sebastian Kienle is the only one of all the competitors in Chattanooga that knows what it is to win at Not now, also getting faster than ferrolane. Kienle has run 3 middle distance races this year, was third in the IM 70.3 of St. George behind Alistair Brownlee y Lionel Sanders, later it was 2º in the World Challenge of Samorin and weeks before winning in the IM of Frankfurt he won the victory in the IM 70.3 of Kraichgau.

So it refers to Javier Gómez Noya he has only run a test of MD, the IM 70.3 of Dubai at the beginning of the year where he won. Javi also won the WTS of Abu Dhabi and Montreal, Olympic distance tests and a few days ago he won the triathlon Des Moines, a standard distance race without drafting.

Photos: Kienle → Triatloners / Noya → @iamspecialized

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