On Thursday morning in Paris, the satisfaction of Richmond, B.C., Evan Dunfee, walked to his third consecutive top-five end on the Olympic Video games, putting fifth within the males’s 20km race stroll. Dunfee’s time of 1:19:16 was 21 seconds behind gold medallist Brian Pintado of Ecuador, who gained in 1:18:55.
Dunfee was within the combine with the lead group with 5 kilometres to go, however a surge from Brazil’s Caio Bonfim broke up the sector, with Dunfee preventing for place within the closing levels. Bonfim ended up profitable silver, 14 seconds behind Pintado, in 1:19:09. Spain’s Alvaro Martin rounded out the rostrum in 1:19:11, which means Dunfee missed a spot on the rostrum by simply 5 seconds.
“I gave it every thing I had at the moment—I’m happy with that,” says Dunfee. “I stored telling myself to go away nothing on the market, to cross the end line happy with your self. I did that.”
Though this was Dunfee’s third Olympic Video games, it was the primary time he had competed within the males’s 20km occasion on the Video games. Dunfee gained bronze within the males’s 50km self-discipline at Tokyo 2020, an occasion that was dropped from the Olympic program in 2021. Dunfee says he’s had his battles with the 20km occasion and has needed to utterly change his coaching to get acquainted with the shorter distance.
Dunfee says his coaching build-up resulting in Paris went extraordinarily effectively, however he revealed in a post-race interview that he had a minor setback of gastroenteritis final week. “It threw me for a loop,” says Dunfee. “I had a number of hours of maximum vomiting.”
Purple and white flags cheering on Dunfee lined the picturesque Paris 2024 course, which was based mostly on the foot of the Eiffel Tower, alongside the River Seine. Dunfee had his mother, dad, brother and fiancée on the course cheering loudly (twice a lap) as he handed by. “Folks say the race walks aren’t common or don’t wish to watch it—but it surely’s an unbelievable environment the place you get to see 50 Olympic athletes cross by 20 occasions.”
The 33-year-old shared his eagerness to placed on the Staff Canada singlet once more at subsequent yr’s World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, the identical metropolis through which he gained a bronze medal simply three years in the past.
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