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

This result could happen as one more in the great track record of Javi, but 11 years later we want to highlight the importance of second position achieved at the Aqaba World Cup in Jordan.

Today 10 of March of 2017 are 11 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 11 years later we want to highlight the importance of that competition.

Up to 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 test of Palermo where he was second but does not appear in any ITU file.

Everything changed at the beginning of 2006, Javi recovered 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. We are 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 world power in their possession.

Photo: ITU