Gómez Noya sprints towards London

Javier Gómez Noya is in the middle of a sprint towards London. And on his way to the Olympic Games he is winning titles in the Galician Championships of different modalities. If on the first day of this month of July he won the Autonomous 1.500-meter swimming competition, also breaking his best record in the fifty-meter pool, on Saturday in Vilagarcía he won the five-kilometer road race, although in In this case, the first athlete to cross the finish line was the Mexican, and also an Olympic triathlete, Crisanto Grajales, who beat him by just two seconds.

In this case, the man from Ferrol did not beat his best time ever over the distance but he was not at all dissatisfied with yesterday's test. He attributed his mark (14 min 17 s) to the wind, which bothered the athletes during part of the course, and to the workload he has been carrying out in recent weeks. “It has been a good workout,” says the triathlete.

Gómez Noya had the luxury collaboration of Víctor Riobó, who acted as a hare during the first half of the test. The two Galicians and the Mexican distanced themselves and crossed the finish line for the first time, setting a time of 7 minutes and 5 seconds for the first two thousand five hundred meters. From there, the race remained a head-to-head between the man from Ferrol and Grajales - who was preparing his participation in the Games in Galicia - which was only decided in a final sprint that was won by Veracruz.

Last stop: Hamburg

Yesterday's race in Vilagarcía is the penultimate competition that Javier Gómez Noya will face on his way to London. calendar The race will close on Saturday in Hamburg, where a triathlon will be held that counts towards the World Championships, but which will be held over half the Olympic distance as it is very close to the London event.

"From there, there will be two and a half weeks of fine-tuning, of gaining spark to arrive healthy and fresh to the Games," explains the athlete. The work is, therefore, practically done and it seems well done as confirmed by the brilliant victory achieved just a few days ago in the Paris triathlon.

The triathlete himself, after all the one who best knows how his body works, confirmed it yesterday in Vilagarcía, on the bike in which he went for a ride as soon as the Galician Athletics Championships ended: "Right now I'm a little tired from so much training, but I think I'm very strong. The sensations I have are very positive," he concluded.

Source: lavozdegalicia.es