The five times World Champion Javier Gómez Noya has debuted in the best way, in the year that will seek the passage to the Olympic Games of Tokyo 2020 winning a sprint distance test.
This morning, the expected debut of Javier Gómez Noya in ITU tests, in the country where he lives, New Zealand, with the sprint test New Plymount, home of the Triathlon World Cup where Spanish was also found Antonio Serrat.
The test began at 01:15 Spanish time with the 750 meter swim without wetsuit, where Richard Varga, a regular in the WTS was the first to get out of the water, followed by Russell White, Gialuca Pozzati and Talyer Red. Antonio Serrat start in position 23 to 17 seconds and Javier Gómez Noya made it 31 to 24.
In the first kilometers of a demanding cycling sector, a group in the lead of 4 units was formed with Russell White, Richard Varga, Gialuca Pozzati and Talyer Red followed by a peloton of about 25 units with Serrat but without Noya, who started a little behind from the transition, but where in the first ramps of the circuit he managed to reach them and finally unify the peloton in the lead.
In the rest of laps, with a strong pace we saw Noya in the top positions pulling the group and even attacking in some moments showing strength to face the 5 km of the race sector.
The group arrived at the unified T2, with Noya in the top positions, although it made a bad transition, as it was wrong to leave the bike and went a bit late to run.
The German Valentin Wernz and the Australian Luke Willian, quickly put in head trying to leave behind the rest of triathletes, but behind Antonio Serrat and Noya in the pursuer group, they tried not to let them go.
However Luke Willian with a strong rhythm, he gradually increased his advantage to go solo for the victory he achieved with a 00 time: 56: 03
From behind, we saw Noya with a very good feeling pulling the group of Red, Ward and Nieschlag in search of Wilde, to finally catch up with him in the last meters to fight for the medals in an exciting end of the race.
Finally Justus nieschalag (00:56:11) attacked in the final part to arrive in second position followed by Sam Ward (00:56:11) third and by Javier Gómez Noya (00: 56: 18) fifth. Antonio Serrat it was 12º
Noya commented on the finish line " The errors in the transition have been many seconds but I am happy with the result and the performance in the race "
In the women's event, which was held hours before, the victory in a tight sprint went to the Italian Angelica Olmo with a time of 1: 03: 27 followed by the Swiss Jolanda Annen (1: 03: 28) and by the Australian Jaz Hedgenland (1: 03: 36) in third position. As for the Spanish Miriam Casillas has been the best classified in the 12º position, Carolina Routier It has been 14º and Marta Sanchez 18o.
