Gómez Noya is still the number 1
Alistair Brownlee won the route that will star in the competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games with a time of 1:50:09
Javier Gómez Noya has managed to retain the leadership of the Triathlon World Championship after finishing fourth in the fifth round of the World Series, held in London, in a race in which the Briton won Alistair Brownlee, his main rival for the title.
The eldest Brownlee won the route that will star in the competition at the 2012 London Olympic Games with a time of 1:50:09, ahead of the Russian Alexander Brukhankov, 25 seconds away, and his little brother, Jonathan Brownlee. , at 55.
However, a fourth position was enough for the Ferrol triathlete to continue leading the World Cup classification with 2660 points, compared to 2490 for Alistair and 2403 for Brukhankov, who rises to third position after the debacle of the British William Clarke, who is now seventh.
For his part, the Galician Iván Raña, world and European champion in 2002, finished in 21st position after running the entire race in the first positions. The other Spaniard in the test, the Balearic Mario Mola, was forced to withdraw.
Rain and a temperature close to 20º greeted the participants at 'The Serpentine', in Hyde Park, which witnessed the beginning of a test in which the athlete from Ferrol came out to defend his privileged position against the Brownlee brothers.
Gómez Noya: "I couldn't react to Brownlee's start"
The Spanish triathlete Javier Gómez Noya commented that he could not react “to Alistair's start”, after finishing fourth in the fifth scoring event of the World Series, a result that allows him to maintain the lead in the overall Championship.
“Alistair (Browlee)'s start caught me in the middle of the pack and I couldn't react, but as we kept them for several kilometers at around 15 seconds I didn't worry. Then, when Raña arrived, they escaped us because there was conformity and it seemed that they considered it impossible to beat Alistair,” he said in statements provided by his press service.
As for the remainder of the championship, the triathlete was optimistic because he has put his discomfort aside. “I have run without the problems of previous triathlons and that gives me morale for the two remaining events in Lausanne and Beijing,” he stated.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE EVIDENCE.
1 Alistair Brownlee (GBR) 01: 50: 09.
2 Alexander Bryukhankov (RUS) to 25.
3 Jonathan Brownlee (GBR) 55.
4. JAVIER GOMEZ NOYA (ESP) 01:07.
5 Steffen Justus (GER) 01: 16.
6 Laurent Vidal (FRA) 01: 18.
7 David Hauss (FRA) 01: 23.
8 Brad Kahlefeldt (AUS) 01: 31.
9 Sven Riederer (SUI) 01: 32.
10 Vincent Luis (FRA) mt
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