Javier Gómez Noya's plans for this 2019 "I don't want to go to Tokyo just to go"

Yesterday, in an act of Banco Santander, Javier Gómez Noya he announced his goal for this 2019, which is to seek qualification for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

To do this, he will have to focus again on the short distance (Sprint and Olympic), although he will not leave aside the medium distance, where he will surely participate in the Ironman World Championship .

In an interview with the EFE agency, Noya commented on the following

Where will you debut this 2019?

Gomez Noya may not make his debut in Abu Dhabi and may he wait for Bermuda and Yokohama

Gómez Noya commented that he may not contest the first round of the World Cup, in Abu Dhabi, but that he does intend to do the following, those of  Shorts, Yokohama (Japan) and    Leeds (England).

"I'm going to focus again on the short distance, although I will also do Ironmans media (70.3), as I have done the last eight or ten years, which I think is a good training for the short. But the long distance, for now, we will park it", Said Javi, who, with a view to qualifying for the Olympic event in the Japanese capital, will also contest the test test of the Games, in Tokyo, in August, which gives direct access to the first three classified.

Will you try to get the sixth world cup?

"What I have to prove is that I am among the three best Spanish", Said the Ferrolan champion, who acknowledged that, without being the target, it would not disgust a sixth world, which would improve its own record of intercontinental titles.

"I do not know. It is not the goal, but if you get good results, that makes you be good in the classification. And, if necessary, I would obviously fight for it.

But there are more and more sprint events (half the Olympic distance, which is 1.500 meters swimming, XNUMX kilometers by bike and ten more of running on foot), something incomprehensible, if we take into account that the Games are in Olympic distance. But you have to go race to race. He did not raise me more than that. Do what I have in mind and try to be as high as possible", Answered Gómez Noya.

What goals do you have in Tokyo 2020?

Although he does not know very well how his body will respond in his return to the short distance, Noya acknowledged that he "did not" sign "the bronze" in that Olympic event. "I already have an Olympic medal and obviously, one always wants to improve. I do not want to go to Tokyo to go. I want to see myself with a chance of being among the best. The Games are a race that takes place once every four years. And sometimes the best win and sometimes not"

From Triathlon News, we will be very attentive to all your participation and we wish you to achieve all your objectives this 2019.

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