On Monday in Canberra, Australia, Canadian three-time Olympic racewalker Evan Dunfee broke his personal Canadian document for 10,000m with a time most (runners) can’t even run for 10K. Dunfee walked to a brand new private better of 38:08.50, shaving 18 seconds off his earlier document and setting a brand new Pan-American (space) document within the course of.
To place Dunfee’s record-breaking stroll in perspective, he averaged a tempo of three:49 per kilometre and a velocity of just about 16 km/h. This was his tenth Canadian race stroll document in his profession, six of that are North American space information.
If you happen to’re unfamiliar with the principles of racewalking, athletes should keep contact with the bottom always. The main leg have to be straightened from the second of first contact till it passes underneath the physique. Referees monitor the shape to make sure athletes are compliant with the principles. If a competitor accumulates three warnings, it typically leads to a time penalty or disqualification.
Dunfee is essentially the most adorned racewalker in Canadian historical past. He received a bronze medal for Canada within the males’s 50 km self-discipline on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the 2019 World Championships. He additionally completed simply off the rostrum on the Rio 2016 and Paris 2024 Olympics, putting fourth and fifth, respectively.
The 34-year-old from Richmond, B.C., received the Supernova 10,000m occasion by a big margin, beating the second and third-place finishers by practically a minute. Dunfee is considered one of 5 Canadian male athletes to have already hit the qualifying commonplace for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, this September.