Canada's Evan Dunfee sets world record in 35km race walk, laps entire field

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Canada's Evan Dunfee set a satellite grounds successful the men's 35-kilometre event at the World Athletics Race Walking Tour Gold gathering successful Dunidice, Slovakia.

Olympic bronze medallist from Richmond, B.C., clocks 21:40 successful Dudince, Slovakia

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· Posted: Mar 22, 2025 9:57 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

A antheral contention walker representing Canada races extracurricular during the day.

Canada's Evan Dunfee set a satellite grounds successful the men's 35-kilometre event at the World Athletics Race Walking Tour Gold gathering successful Dudince, Slovakia.

The 34-year-old from Richmond, B.C., clocked a clip of two hours 21 minutes 40 seconds astatine the Dudinska 50 contention connected Saturday, breaking the erstwhile people by 7 seconds.

Dunfee led from commencement to finish, lapping each 51 racers.

Japan's Kawano Masatora had held the grounds since October from a Bronze gathering successful Takahata, Japan.

It's the 2nd grounds successful arsenic galore months for Dunfee, who besides acceptable the North American people successful the men's 20km connected Feb. 16 in Adelaide, Australia (1:17:39).

The three-time Olympian won Canada's first-ever Olympic medal successful the 50km lawsuit with bronze at the Tokyo Games successful 2021.

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