16 years of the first world title of Javier Gómez Noya
World Champion was proclaimed for the first time in Queenstown, New Zealand in the year 2003 in sub23 category
Today 6 December 2019 marks 16 years of first world title won by Javier Gómez Noya, in the town of Queenstown in New Zealand.
The country of the antipodes has always been one of the places where Javier Gómez Noya has had the best results since, in addition to the 2003 world title, he also won the New Playmouth world cup in 2008, the grand final of the Auckland world series. 2012, and 2 WTS wins in the New Zealand capital in 2013 and 2014.
El world championship sub23 It was decided in the foot race where Noya was the fastest (in the elite event only 2 men ran more than him) taking the gold medal with a 1 end time: 59: 06, followed by the Australian Nick Hornman at 27” and from German Steffen Justus a 34. 10". It should also be noted that in that test Ramón Ejeda was 19th and Jose Manuel Tovar XNUMXth.
The Queentown World Cups were very positive for the Spanish national team in general, since on the same day Zuriñe Rodríguez won the bronze medal reaching the finish line behind the great Mirinda Carfrae (3 times winner in Kona). That day Zuri also achieved the best partial walk of all the competitors ... something that had much merit while Mirinda was in competition. He also competed but I can't finish the race Soraya Pérez.
In elite, Iván Raña was silver
As regards the elite competition that was played the next day Iván Raña achieved the silver medal. The Llanos brothers also finished the test, Eneko Llanos in 27th position and Hektor Llanos in 39th. In the women's competition, Ana Burgos achieved a meritorious 8th position, while Pilar Hidalgo was 27th and Ainhoa Murua 34th.
Finally, it is necessary to highlight four triathletes from the junior female competition who in subsequent years have been among the best in the world: Vanessa Fernades (3rd), Helen Jenkins (5th), Daniela Ryf (6th) and Lisa Norden (10th)
This year he has won his first IRONMAN distance victory
This year Noya has achieved his first victory in an IRONMAN, has been proclaimed LD World Champion in Pontevedra and it has been tErcero in the World Triathlon Series.
In 2020 it will be the year in which will focus on the Tokyo Olympics and in the second part of the season his goal is the 70.3 World Cup. Kona has it in mind, he is already classified, but we will have to wait for the games to end to see if he will finally bet on him IRONMAN World Championship
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