Javier Gómez Noya proclaims Triathlon World Champion in an agonizing Sprint

Javier Gómez Noya gets his 3º World Triathlon Championship and Mario Mola takes the bronze.

 

Agonizing, exciting, this is how you can describe the show that the triathlon greats have offered us this afternoon in the Grand final of the World Series where Javier Gómez Noya has been imposed in the last meters the British Jonathan Brownlee in an agonizing sprint.

 

 

On the afternoon of Sunday, the last meeting in the city of London was held ITU world triathlon series where Javier Gómez Noya, Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee started with options to get the world title.

 

Only 120 points of difference They were separated where Javier to become champion would only be worth the victory and that the British Alistair Bronwlee will end in 3º position.

 

At the 14: 30 (Spanish time) with an ambient temperature of 15 the competition began where the Slovakian Richard Varga He led the 1500 m swim with the other favorites swimming very close to him.

 

Once on the bike the race was divided into two groups differentiated, where in the lead were the 3 favorites to the podium, Noya and the Brownlee brothers, followed less than 1 minute by the group that went Mario Mola and Francesc Godoy.

 

During the 40 km of cycling, Alistair tried to escape from the group but not making any attempt. Once in the T2 the head group was ahead of 33 '' the pursuer, where Mario Mola proved his worth in the race, making a great comeback

 

Quickly, Javier Gomez and Jonathan Brownlee took the lead, but Alistair surprisingly he was left behind due to an injury. At this time, Javier's chances of winning the championship were high since in the penultimate round of the world series he won 25 '' at Jonathan on the finish line.

 

The first two were taking advantage and making some timid attempts at changes of pace until the final battle was declared in the last 300m, where the Englishman made a spectacular attack that Javi could withstand, making this, the last acceleration in the absence of a few few meters reaching the finish line first in an agonizing Sprint with a final time of 01:48:16.

 

But spectacular has been the comeback of Mallorquin Mario Mola that after leaving with more of 30 '' of delay in the beginning of the race, it was able to overcome until reaching the 3º final place, almost a minute from Javi, that has also served to get the third place in the ITU ranking this year.

 

Javier Gomez Noya With this victory, he was proclaimed the 2013 ITU World Champion, this being his third World Championship since he achieved in 2008 and 2010.

 

The Spanish Francesc Godoy has done a great race finishing in 30ª position with a final time of 01: 50: 45

 

Provisional results:

http://www.triathlon.org/results/result/2013_itu_world_triathlon_grand_final_london/259951

 

Photo: ITU