Javier Gomez shows class at Challenge Wanaka
The Spanish world champ looks out for his competitors on the race course.

In a recent video interview that came out after last weekend’s Challenge Wanaka, top-ranked competitor Braden Currie (NZL) who placed second in the pro men’s field talks about the incredible sportsmanship displayed by winner Javier Gomez on the bike leg of the race (1:34):
“We pushed each other all day,” Currie says in the video. “I dropped my chain one time and he came up beside me and gave me a push, tried to get me going again… that didn’t work so I got off and put my chain back on. I look up the road and he’s sitting a couple hundred metres up waiting for me. It shows you the class of that guy and the respect out there on the course is pretty cool.”
Gomez won the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in 2017, and is starting his bid for the Ironman World Championships this October. He won Challenge Wanaka in a time of 3:57:27, just 17 seconds ahead of Currie.