Tiszaujvaros, Hungary (July 13, 2008) - Olympic favourite Javier Gomez of Spain put another notch on his impressive career and showed the world he is still the man to beat in Beijing by wining the Tiszaujvaros BG Triathlon World Cup in a time of 1 hour 51 minutes and 32 seconds today. With this win, Gomez ties Canada's Simon Whitfield and New Zealand's Hamish Carter, both Olympic gold medalists, for second on the all-time world cup win standings with 11. Coming back from injury to show he is still on track for the Olympics was Aussie Brad Kahlefeldt in second, only 19 second back. In third was hometown hero Dmitriy Gaag of Kazakhstan a further 17 seconds down.

As temperatures skyrocketed to 37 degrees Celsius, Beijing was on the mind of many of the 63 men toeing the start line. As expected, Gomez and a small group of three took the pace out hard, stringing out the field in the non-wetsuit swim. By the end of the swim, Gomez would exit the water 22 seconds up on Kahlefeldt, Gaag and the other top runners on the start list. Showing their countries development, host nation Hungary placed four athletes in the top seven out of the water.

This lead would be erased quickly though as by the time the men rode the eight kilometres back to town after the swim it was one large group of 39. Once into town however, American Mark Fretta and Hungary's Balazs Poscai were not content to sit in the large pack and made a break, stretching their lead to almost 50 seconds by the end of the 40-kilometre bike course. Ever watchful was the chase group with many of the sports top runners making sure not to give too much time to the duo.

It was obvious within the first kilometre of the run that Fretta and Poscai had expended too much energy under the hot sun on their breakaway and were caught and spit out the back by the fleet-footed Gomez and his posse of Kahlefeldt, Gaag, Steffen Justus of Germany, Reinaldo Colucci of Brazil and Oliver Freeman of Great Britain. These six ran side by side for the first five kilometres until, like clockwork, Gomez tightened the screw.

The first to fall off the pace was Gaag shortly followed by Colucci and Freeman. Kahlefeldt and Justus made a valiant effort to stay with the Spaniard but soon dropped back as well. Gomez kept the heat on the others and did not let up until the final 50 metres to acknowledge the thousands of spectators who braved the midday sun to cheer the competitors on.

Kahlefeldt finished in second for the third time in a row this year, each time to Gomez. A late charge from Gaag managed to bag the Kazak the bronze medal. His first world cup podium since 2006, which was also in Tiszaujvaros.

2008 Tiszaujvaros BG Triathlon World Cup
1.5km swim, 40km bike, 10km run
Elite Men - Official Results

Gold - Javier Gomez (ESP) 1:51:32
Silver - Brad Kahlefeldt (AUS) 1:51:51 +:19
Bronze - Dmitriy Gaag (KAZ) 1:52:08 +:36
4th - Steffen Justus (GER) 1:52:16 +:44
5th - Reinaldo Colucci (BRA) 1:52:29 +:58
6th - Oliver Freeman (GBR) 1:52:37 +1:05
7th - David Dellow (AUS) 1:53:12 +1:41
8th - Franz Hofer (AUT) 1:53:26 +1:54
9th - Mathias Zoell (GER) 1:53:42 +2:10
10th - Kyle Jones (CAN) 1:53:47 +2:15