10 years of the first podium of Javier Gómez Noya in a World Cup

This podium could happen as another result in the broad track record of Javi, but 10 years later we want to highlight the importance of that competition.

Today 10 of March of 2016 are 10 years of the first podium of Javier Gómez Noya in a test of the World Cup, specifically in the Aqaba (Jordan) where the Galician finished in 2ª position

This podium could happen as another result in the broad track record of Javi, but 10 years later we want to highlight the importance of that competition.

Until 2006 Javi had had many problems to be able to compete since the Spanish sports institutions withdrew the license due to "a "cardiac problem". The best specialists in cardiology had confirmed that his aortic valve disease was not an impediment for him to train and compete normally ... as has been proven over the years.

 Especially hard was the 2005 where practically Noya could not run almost anything at the ITU level, in addition to his "unfair" disqualification in a Palermo test where he was second but does not appear in any ITU archive.

Everything changed at the beginning of 2006, Javi regained the definitive license ... and began to change the history of triathlon. A week before Aqaba was 10º at the Doha World Cup in Qatar and then traveled to Jordan where he achieved his first podium in a World Cup event.

 Until the 2008 year the World Cup tests were called "1ª ITU category", on the one hand there was the World Cup (a one day event) but the competition that crowned the best and most regular of the year was the World Cup, that had a format similar to the current WTS where the best in a certain number of competitions managed to win in the final overall.

We remember that Gómez Noya was the final winner of the World Cup in the years 2006, 2007 and 2008. I'm not in favor of comparing times, but seeing the regularity of Javi, if the triathlon world had always had this WTS formed surely we would be talking about Noya would have 7 worldwide in his possession.

Photo: ITU