On Thursday morning in Paris, the pleasure of Richmond, B.C., Evan Dunfee, walked to his 3rd consecutive top-five end on the Olympic Video games, striking 5th within the males’s 20km race stroll. Dunfee’s time of one:19:16 was once 21 seconds in the back of gold medalist Brian Pintado of Ecuador, who gained in 1:18:55.
Dunfee was once within the combine with the lead staff with 5 kilometres to move, however a surge from Brazil’s Caio Bonfim broke up the sector, with Dunfee preventing for place within the final phases. Bonfim ended up profitable silver, 14 seconds in the back of Pintado, in 1:19:09. Spain’s Alvaro Martin rounded out the rostrum in 1:19:11, that means Dunfee simply overlooked a place at the podium by way of 5 seconds.
“I gave it the entirety I had nowadays—I’m pleased with that,” says Dunfee. “I saved telling myself to depart not anything available in the market, to pass the end line pleased with your self. I did that.”
Even though this was once Dunfee’s 3rd Olympic Video games, it was once the primary time he had competed within the males’s 20km tournament on the Video games. Dunfee gained bronze within the males’s 50km self-discipline at Tokyo 2020, an tournament that was once dropped from the Olympic program in 2021. Dunfee says he’s had his battles with the 20km tournament and has needed to utterly alternate his coaching to get familiar with the shorter distance.
Dunfee says his coaching build-up resulting in Paris went extraordinarily neatly, however he published in a post-race interview that he had a minor setback of gastroenteritis remaining week. “It took me for a loop,” says Dunfee. “I had a number of hours of maximum vomiting.”
Purple and white flags cheering on Dunfee coated the picturesque Paris 2024 path, which was once based totally on the foot of the Eiffel Tower, alongside the River Seine. Dunfee had his mother, dad, brother and fiancée at the path cheering loudly (two times a lap) as he handed by way of. “Other folks say the race walks aren’t in style or don’t need to watch it—however it’s an out of this world setting the place you get to peer 50 Olympic athletes move by way of 20 occasions.”
The 33-year-old shared his eagerness to position at the Crew Canada singlet once more at subsequent yr’s International Athletics Championships in Tokyo, a spot the place Dunfee gained bronze simply 3 years in the past.
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