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Evan Dunfee extends thumbs up beside the timing gear depicting his new Canadian record in the men’s 10,000 metre race walk.
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Dunfee shatters national record
Evan Dunfee didn’t just break his own Canadian record Sunday. He shattered it.
Evan Dunfee didn’t just break his own
Canadian record Sunday. He shattered it.
The Canadian Olympic race walker from
Richmond, a graduate of McNair Secondary, lopped nearly 30 seconds off his
previous best time of 39:21.30 to win the B.C. Athletics Championships men’s
10,000 metre race in a sizzling 38:54.20 at Hillside Stadium in Kamloops.
“I had a bit of an easier week and training
has been going really well,” Dunfee, 28, told the Richmond Sentinel. “Everything
has indicated that I was ready for a fast one. It just worked out that this
race was timed well with training, and that the weather was perfect. Light
rain, no wind and fairly cool.”
Dunfee previously set the national standard
in the 10,000 metre race in June 2016 at a meet in Coquitlam. He also holds the
Canadian 50 kilometre record of 3:41.38 which he established with a
fourth-place finish at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
It was following this race that he endeared himself to Canadians from coast to
coast with his high degree of sportsmanship. He appeared to be bumped during
the final leg of the race but refused to appeal the final decision.
Next up for Dunfee are the Canadian Track and
Field Championships July 25 to 30 in Montreal. From there, it’s off to the Pan
Ams a week later (July 26 to Aug. 11) in Lima, Peru where he’s scheduled to
compete in the 20 kilometre race walk. He’s then planning to head to Europe for
altitude and heat training, before embarking on the world championships at the
end of September in Doha, Qatar. He’ll be racing 50 kilometres.
“The goal for Pan Ams is certainly to win a
medal,” Dunfee says, confident he’ll at least be in the hunt.
“Worlds? The goal is to be up there as well.
I’ve had some good 50k work so I’m confident I’m back where I was in 2016 and
ready to prove that Rio wasn’t a fluke—more to myself than anyone.”
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