Javier Gomez Noya

0 Javier Gomez
Francisco Javier Gómez Noya, 2011
Personal information
Date of birth	25th March 1983 (age 37)
place of birth	Basel , Switzerland
size	177 cm
Weight	66 kg
societies
until 2015	basics team
since 2015	Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team
successes
2003	U23 world champion triathlon short distance
2007-2016	4 × European champion triathlon short distance
2008-2015	5 × world champion triathlon short distance
2012	World champion Xterra cross triathlon
2013	World champion triathlon sprint distance
2013	European champion triathlon middle distance
2014, 2017	2 × Winner Ironman 70.3 World Championships
2017	Vice world champion triathlon short distance
2019	World champion triathlon long distance
2019	Ironman winner
status
active

Francisco Javier Gómez Noya (born March 25, 1983 in Basel / Switzerland ) is a Spanish triathlete . Gómez is five-time triathlon world champion on the short distance (2008, 2010, 2013–2015) and he has won the Ironman 70.3 World Championships twice (2014, 2017). He is European triathlon champion (2007, 2009, 2012, 2016), world sprint champion (2013) and cross triathlon world champion (2012) and Ironman winner (2019). Javier Gómez is listed as third in the best list of Spanish triathletes on the Ironman distance . ^{(As of October 2019)}

Career

Javier Gómez was born in Switzerland, where his parents Francisco Javier and Manuela worked. Goméz has a brother who is six years older than him. In July 1983 the family moved to Ferrol in northwestern Spain. He played football up to the age of eleven and later successfully swam in a club, where he won various Spanish competitions. He completed his first youth triathlon in 1998 at the age of 15.

In December 2003 he became triathlon world champion in the U23 class in New Zealand and he has been a professional triathlete since 2004. In the nine years from 2002 to 2010, Gómez took part in 57 ITU competitions and achieved top ten places 54 times, including 23 gold, 12 silver and 4 bronze medals at top-class world or continental championships or cups A record that future triathletes will find difficult to break.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he narrowly missed a podium and finished fourth.

In 2010 Gómez was number 1 in the world championship series rankings, in 2011 the Brownlee brothers Alistair and Jonathan , with whom he helped Club Sartrouville to the undisputed top spot in the French club championship series Lyonnaise des Eaux , seem to be competing for the rank.

World champion Xterra Cross-Triathlon 2012

In April 2012, after 2007 and 2009, he won the title at the European Triathlon Championships on the Olympic distance for the third time (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running) and in August 2012 he won the Olympic Games second in London.
In October he secured the 2012 Olympic distance runner-up title in New Zealand by winning the last race of the 2012 season, and just a week later he became world champion in cross triathlon on Maui.

European triathlon middle distance champion 2013

In May 2013 he became European champion in the triathlon middle distance. Gómez is trained by Omar Gonzalez . In September 2013 he won the ITU World Championship racing series with his victory in London .

In August 2014, Gómez was able to secure the world championship title on the short distance again in Canada with third place in the last race of the ITU world championship racing series in 2014. In September he won the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Canada .

Since the beginning of 2015 he starts for the newly founded Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team , which is led by Chris McCormack .
In August he came third in the middle distance of the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in the Austrian province of Salzburg as part of the Ironman 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun . His goal, the fifth world champion title in the Olympic distance, he achieved with a second place at the 2015 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Chicago , he had put the 2015 season under the motto "Drive for 5". He is trained by Carlos David Prieto .

In May 2016 he won the title of the European Triathlon Championships on the Olympic distance for the fourth time.
Javier Gómez was nominated for a start at the 2016 Summer Olympics , but had to cancel his participation as reigning world champion after a fall in training three weeks before the start of the Games in Rio due to a broken elbow head. Instead of Gómez, Vicente Hernández was nominated for Spain. In August he won the World Championship series race in Montreal, making the 34-year-old the oldest winner in this series.

Winner Ironman 70.3 World Championship 2017

In September 2017 he won the Ironman 70.3 World Championships for the second time since 2014. He finished the 2017 ITU World Championship racing series in September as second and runner-up world champion behind his compatriot Mario Mola .

In February 2018 he won the Challenge Wanaka with a new course record on the triathlon middle distance .
At his first start on the long distance, Gómez finished second in the Ironman Cairns in June 2018 (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running). With his winning time of 7:56:38 h behind Iván Raña (7:48:43 h) he was the second fastest Spanish athlete in the list of the best triathletes on the Ironman distance . In July he won the Prague Challenge in the middle distance.

In May 2019, the 36-year-old ITU world champion on the long distance. In October he won the Ironman Malaysia and set a new course record with his winning time of 8:18:59 h.

Private

Gómez was in a relationship with the German triathlete Ricarda Lisk until 2014 . He lives in the Galician city ​​of Pontevedra .

Awards

• 2016: ETU athlete of the year
• 2016: Princess of Asturias Prize in the Sports category

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Francisco Javier Gómez Noya  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website by Javier Gómez
• Javier Gómez in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Profile for Javier Gómez Noya at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on May 13, 2014
• Profile and results of Javier Gómez Noya in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on November 3, 2019 (English).
• Javier Gómez Noya in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brownlee dominates but Gomez gets world title (August 31, 2014)
2. ^ Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team
3. ↑ Fabian Fiedler: Javier Gomez cancels for the Olympic Games . In: tri-mag.de . July 14, 2016.
4. ↑ Gomez again IRONMAN 70.3 World Champion (September 10, 2017)
5. ↑ JAVIER GOMEZ WINS CHALLENGE WANAKA (February 17, 2018)
6. ↑ Richard Murray secures jackpot (March 19, 2017)
7. ↑ EM silver for Swiss triathletes (July 27, 2013)
8. ↑ Protest rejected - court confirms ban after beating (January 9, 2012)
9. ↑ Kahlefeldt takes Third Mooloolaba title
10. ↑ Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Final 2010 - Budapest, Hungary - Men ( Memento from September 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Triathlon EM: Brownlee shows Gomez
12. ↑ Javier Gomez. Retrieved October 20, 2009 . 
13. ^ ETU short distance EM: Title to Gomez and Spirig
14. ↑ Triathlon European Championship - Javier Gomez fetches the title  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ Jan Frodeno surprisingly wins gold
16. ↑ Rank 13 for Maik Petzold in New Plymouth
17. ↑ 2006 ITU Team Triathlon World Championships - Cancun (Mexico) ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
18. ↑ Sensational victory in Nice: Gustav Iden wins the Ironman 70.3 World Championship (September 8, 2018)