Benjamín Noval, a double junior world champion to expand the Spanish history

Benjamín Noval Suárez It is already the history of Spanish cycling in the World Championships. The MMR Academy runner has been proclaimed this Friday junior world champion in the online test after a display at least as memorable as the one that gave him the world time trial title of the category.

Never before had a Spaniard managed to win a double of world gold medals in any of the championship categories.. Noval has achieved this with gigantic performances in which he has not only won, but in which he has controlled and dominated from start to finish.

His world gold this Friday extends the record of Spanish cycling in World Championships to the fifteen total golds among all tests and all categories. These are divided into thirteen men’s and two women’s: by age they are divided into nine seniors, two under-23s and four juniors.

Noval also becomes the third Spaniard to repeat world gold in any age category. In her case the junior. You had to go back to 2018 to see a junior world double from the same corridor. signed it a certain Remco Evenepoel.

Previously, only two legends had achieved it in Spain at an absolute level, such as Oscar Freiretriple champion in the online test, and Abraham Olanochampion both online and time trial. That double, although among the little ones, Noval already has: he is seventeen years old, but he has already made it clear that he wants to be very big.