Canadian staff stalwart Evan Dunfee advised native media on Thursday he hoped to create a race stroll to recollect on the 2025 World Athletics Championships.
Mission completed.
The 34-year-old Dunfee, of Richmond, B.C. — competing in his seventh world championships — struck gold Friday within the males’s 35-kilometre race stroll, reeling within the high 5 walkers over the ultimate eight kilometres.
Dunfee completed the race in two hours, 28 minutes and 22 seconds, 33 seconds forward of runner-up Caio Bonfim of Brazil. Hayato Katsuki of Japan completed third in 2:29:16.
Dunfee earned bronze within the 50K stroll on the world championships in 2019 and on the Olympics in Tokyo, Canada’s first-ever Olympic medal within the occasion. He later claimed gold within the 10K stroll on the Commonwealth Video games in 2022.
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Dunfee positioned fifth within the 20K stroll, now the one distance contested on the Olympics, on the Paris Video games final 12 months.
Dunfee described the victory as “a dream come true, it’s 25 years within the making … (however) that final two Ks (kilometres) have been actually agonizing and I used to be simply having to channel the entire folks again dwelling or the folks right here who’re a part of my assist staff who imagine in me so, a lot.
“I simply stored considering another step, another step, I’ve by no means been in that a lot ache in my life. Got here into the stadium and thought I believe perhaps we will do that. Unbelievable feeling for positive.”
Olivia Lundman of Nanaimo, B.C., failed to complete the ladies’s 35-kilometre race stroll. The 22-year-old was disqualified on the eight-kilometre mark. Maria Perez of Spain received in 2:39:01.
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