Javier Gómez Noya Bronze for Spain in the Grand Final of the Triathlon World Series
Spectacular race held today in the grand final of the Triathlon World Series in Beijing. Alistair Brownlee, with a time of 1:48:07, entered the finish line in first position followed by the Swiss Sven Riederer 1:48:15 and the youngest of the Brownlee 1:48:18 Sixth place for the Spanish triathlete Javier Gómez Noya, 20 seconds from the head of the race, since it gave him the necessary points to maintain his third place in the World Ranking. frog 10th and Mario Mola 47º.
At 6.30 a.m. Spanish time, the grand final of the World Series began in Beijing. With an outside temperature of 16 degrees Celsius, a humid environment and the water at 24 degrees, the triathletes were in the starting marsh.
Once started, in the swimming segment, which ran on a 1500 meter lap circuit, it was the Frenchman Vicent Luis who dominated practically the entire route together with Maik Petzold. However, in the last few meters, the Brownlee brothers climbed positions coming out of the water in the head.
The cycling segment, consisting of 6 laps, ran on a wet road that had a dangerous downward ramp, where the triathletes knew how to slow down in order to avoid massive falls.
As soon as we started, we could see again the Brownlee brothers leading the segment together with the Russian Alexander Bruahankow who tried to pull to take down a second group, Raña and Noya were 20 seconds away from them, but before the end of the first lap they were caught up , forming the first and large group where Noya is among the top 5 along with Brownlee, Brukhankov, Gemmell, Atkinson and Raña, among others, in a pack of 39 triathletes. The other Spaniard, Mario Mola, remained in the second group 40 seconds behind the head.
In the middle of the cycling segment, it was where Jan Fodeno, current champion of the 2008 Olympic Games, retired.
In the last lap of the cycling segment, Raña found the strength to pull the group, entering the head in the second transition.
It was at this time where the brothers Brownlee and Noya, traced positions again to be in the top positions.
In a spectacular race where Alistair Brownlwee knew how to pull tactfully to get meters of difference as this last segment went by, he wanted to make it clear to us, before the end of the race, who would be the 2011 triathlon world champion. The little one of the Brownlees remained in second place followed by the Spanish, Javier Gómez Noya.
In the middle of the segment, Jonathan and Noya lost positions and were reached, reaching the goal in 3 and 6 positions. Second place went to the Swiss Riederer. Raña, after a brilliant career in the cycling segment, entered the finish line in 10th position. Mario Mola, could not overcome positions, achieving 47 place in the test.
In this way, Javier Gómez Noya, managed to position himself as the third best triathlete in the world. Achieving in this way, his pass to the 2011 Olympic Games.
Top 10 of the Test
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1. |
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE |
GBR |
1:48:07 |
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2. |
SVEN RIEDERER |
SUI |
+ 0: 08 |
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3. |
JONATHAN BROWNLEE |
GBR |
+ 0: 11 |
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4. |
DMITRY POLYANSKY |
RUS |
+ 0: 13 |
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5. |
LAURENT VIDAL |
FRA |
+ 0: 17 |
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6. |
JAVIER GOMEZ |
ESP |
+ 0: 20 |
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7. |
DAVID HAUSS |
FRA |
+ 0: 29 |
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8. |
VINCENT LUIS |
FRA |
+ 0: 37 |
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9. |
MAIK PETZOLD |
GER |
+ 0: 40 |
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10. |
IVAN RANA |
ESP |
+ 0: 44 |
Coming soon all the test results in: www.triathlon.org
Tomorrow the women's event will be held, which will begin at 07:30 Spanish time.
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