Javier Gómez Noya will try to fight for the sixth world cup

He will also participate in the sprint distance races of the Triathlon World Series

As reported by the EFE agency, Javier Gómez Noya, five times ITU Triathlon World Champion has made the decision to continue fighting for the 2019 World Cup, also participating in sprint distance tests .

This year he has already achieved a second place in the WTS of Bermuda and the fourth place in WTS Yokohama.

These two positions have placed him fifth in the championship, with 1.716 points, 807 less than the leader, the French Vincent Luis who has one more test than him, since I did not participate in the inaugural test of Abu DhabiWhere Mario Mola got the victory

It has one less test than its rivals

For the final classification of the World Cup, in addition to the Grand Final, which will be held the last weekend of August, in Lausanne (Switzerland) -, the five best results of the seven remaining events that make up the World Series are scored.

Noya, who had in mind to test himself on Olympic distance to see his performance on this distance, with the aim of the Olympic Games of Tokyo 2020He will also participate in the remaining Sprint distance tests on the calendar.

Leeds your next target

Noya will participate next weekend in the WTS Leeds (England) fourth round of the World Cup, where he will surely meet his old rival Alistair Browlee, that has just been proclaimed Triathlon European Champion this past weekend.

According to Efe Noya, he has decided to take the start also in the sprint tests of Montreal (Canada), the last weekend of June; Y Hamburg (Germany), just a week later.

After the test on June 6 in Hamburg -which will host, one day later, the world mixed relay championship- and before the Grand Final (again in Olympic distance) in Lausanne; another sprint test will be held on the penultimate weekend of July in Edmonton (Canada), which the Ferrol champion could contest, if he is well placed with a view to expanding his own historical record of world titles to six.

He has returned to compete in Spain

Noya, has participated this weekend in the Atlantic Triathlon, in Bayona (Pontevedra) where he has achieved victory with his partner Anneke Jenkins

There are no previous results.

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