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Evan Dunfee (born September 28, 1990)[1] is a Canadian race walker and Olympian. An Olympic and World medallist, Dunfee first set the Canadian record in the 50 kilometres race walk (at 3:41:38) at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where he placed fourth. He went on to win bronze medals at the 2019 World Athletics Championships and the 2020 Summer Olympics, both of those the last time the 50 km was to be featured as an event.

Evan Dunfee

Dunfee in 2021
Personal information
Nationality	Canadian
Born	(1990-09-28) September 28, 1990 (age 32) Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
Country	Canada
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Racewalking
Medal record Men's racewalking Representing  Canada Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo 50 km walk World Championships 2019 Doha 50 km walk World Race Walking Team Championships 2016 Rome 20 km Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham 10,000 m walk Pan American Games 2015 Toronto 20 km walk North American, Central American and Caribbean Championships 2018 Toronto 20 km 2022 Freeport 20 km Jeux de la Francophonie 2013 Nice 20 km Summer Universiade 2013 Kazan 20 km (team)

Career

He competed for his national team in the 50K walk at the 2013 World Championships, finishing in under 4 hours at 3:59:28. He won a bronze medal with his team at the 2013 World University Games where two of the winning Russian race walkers, Denis Strelkov and Andrey Ruzavin have since been suspended for doping violations. Dunfee is the 2012 champion and record holder for the 20 km walk at the NACAC Under-23 Championships in Athletics. He was the silver medalist at the Athletics at the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie. He has several near misses finishing fourth at the 2009 Pan American Race Walking Cup, the 2013 Pan American Race Walking Cup, 2015 Pan American Race Walking Cup and the 2012 Oceania Race Walking Championships and sixth at the 2010 Commonwealth Games[2] usually very close to teammate and training partner Gomez.

Dunfee grew up and currently lives in Richmond, British Columbia, training up to 50 km a day.[3] He attended Kingswood Elementary and Matthew McNair Secondary School in Richmond, British Columbia. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2014 with a Bachelor's degree in kinesiology.[4] Dunfee Canadian Running Magazine.[5] His investigative work on illegal doping-related activities by Russian competitors has been quoted by the Associated Press and Inside the Games.[6][7][8] Additionally, he is a KidSport ambassador.[9] In 2018, in support of KidSport's 25th anniversary, he raised funds and walked 25km a day for 25 days.[10]

In July 2016, he was named to Canada's Olympic team for the 2016 Rio Olympics.[11] In the 50-kilometre race walk, Hirooki Arai of Japan initially finished third. He was then disqualified for making contact with Dunfee, but Arai's medal was reinstated on a further appeal. Dunfee advised the Canadian team against making a further appeal.[12] Dunfee set a new Canadian record in the event.[13] He also competed in the 20-kilometre race walk, placing tenth.

After dealing with injuries, Dunfee took some time out from the sport in 2018, before beginning what he termed a restart with new goals. His work with KidSport to raise money for charity was part of an attempt to give him "a different avenue to chase [his] competitive spirit" and credited it with reinvigorating him heading into the 2019 season.[14] Competing at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Dunfee won the bronze medal, the second medal for a Canadian in racewalk at the World Championships, and the first in the 50 km. This was the last occasion the 50 km was to be contested at the World Championships, a decision Dunfee indidcated he disagreed with. He went on to say that his full focus was on preparing for the next Olympics.[15]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were delayed by a year. This was, as in Doha, to be the last time the 50 kilometres race walk was to be a featured event at the Olympics. In the closing metres of the race, Dunfee surged into third place and won the bronze medal, becoming the third ever Canadian racewalking Olympic medalist, and the only one in the 50 km event. He remarked afterward "I don't need a medal to validate myself. I'm proud of what I accomplished today, but I have been dreaming of this moment and winning this medal for 21 years. I am over the moon."[16] Dunfee's accomplishment in Tokyo was recognized by the Canadian association of national team athletes with their True Sport Award for the athlete who "exemplifies the highest values of sport, including sportsmanship, perseverance and inclusion" in December of 2021.[17]

The transition to the 2022 season was difficult for Dunfee, who struggled with both a hamstring injury and depression relating to World Athletics' decision to retire the 50 km event in favour of the new 35 km. He said it had "been a mental struggle for me, finding the motivation and mostly related to just coming to terms with the 50K not existing anymore and that was so much of my identity."[18] In his first major championship appearance in the new event, he finished seventh at the 2022 World Race Walking Team Championships in Muscat.[19][6] He was sixth at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, which he said he was "thrilled" by in light of his recent difficulties.[20] Later in the summer, Dunfee was named to the Canadian team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, competing in the newly-added 10,000 m walk. He won the gold medal in a new national and Commonwealth Games record time of 38:36.37.[21]

Dunfee is currently running for Richmond, British Columbia City Council in the 2022 British Columbia municipal elections.[22]

Personal bests

Event	Result	Venue	Date
Road walk
10 km	40:19 min	Moncton, New Brunswick	June 22, 2013
20 km	1:20:13 hrs	Taicang	May 4, 2014
35 km	2:25:02 hrs	Eugene, Oregon	July 24, 2022
50 km	3:41:38 hrs	Rio de Janeiro	August 19, 2016
Track walk
5000 m	18:39.08 min	Burnaby, British Columbia	June 18, 2021
10,000 m	38:36.37 min	Birmingham, United Kingdom	August 7, 2022
20,000 m	1:25:15.0 hrs (ht)	Calgary, Alberta	June 25, 2011

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Canada
2007	World Youth Championships	Ostrava, Czech Republic	23rd	10,000 m	47:40.86
2008	World Junior Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	10th	10,000 m	42:56.82
2009	Pan American Race Walking Cup (U20)	San Salvador, El Salvador	4th	10 km	44:16
	Pan American Junior Championships	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	6th	10,000 m	43:27.04
2010	World Race Walking Cup	Chihuahua, México	–	20 km	DNF
	Commonwealth Games	Delhi, India	6th	20 km	1:28:13
2011	Universiade	Shenzhen, China	14th	20 km	1:29:13
2012	Oceania Race Walking Championships	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia	4th†	20 km	1:25:17
	World Race Walking Cup	Saransk, Russia	–	20 km	DNF
			15th	Team (20 km)	180 pts
	NACAC U23 Championships	Irapuato, México	1st	20,000 m	1:26:15.32 A
2013	Pan American Race Walking Cup	Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala	4th	20 km	1:25:43 A
	Universiade	Kazan, Russia	21st	20 km	1:31:07
			3rd	Team (20 km)	4:20:35
	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	36th	50 km	3:59:28
	Jeux de la Francophonie	Nice, France	2nd	20 km	1:25:30
2014	World Race Walking Cup	Taicang, China	11th	20 km	1:20:13
			4th	Team (20 km)	36 pts
2015	Pan American Race Walking Cup	Arica, Chile	4th	20 km	1:21:54
			1st	Team (20 km)	21 pts
	World Championships	Beijing, China	12th	20 km	1:21:48
			12th	50 km	3:49:56
2016	World Race Walking Team Championships	Rome, Italy	16th	20 km	1:21:26
			2nd	Team (20 km)	28 pts
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	10th	20 km	1:20:49
			4th	50 km	3:41:38
2017	World Championships	London, England	15th	50 km	3:47:36
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	8th	20 km	1:23:26
	World Race Walking Team Championships	Taicang, China	12th	50 km	3:50:18
	NACAC Championships	Toronto, Canada	1st	20 km	1:25:39
2019	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	3rd	50 km	4:05:02
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	3rd	50 km	3:50:59
2022	World Race Walking Team Championships	Muscat, Oman	7th	35 km	2:38:08
	World Championships	Eugene, United States	6th	35 km	2:25:02
	Commonwealth Games	Birmingham, United Kingdom	1st	10,000 m	38:36.37
	NACAC Championships	Freeport, Bahamas	2nd	20,000 m	1:27:18

^†: Guest appearance out of competition.

References

External links

• Evan Dunfee at Athletics Canada
• Evan Dunfee at World Athletics
• Evan Dunfee at Olympics.com
• Evan Dunfee at Olympedia
• Evan Dunfee at the Canadian Olympic Committee
• Evan Dunfee at the Commonwealth Games Federation

На других языках

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[de] Evan Dunfee

Evan Dunfee (* 28. September 1990 in Richmond, British Columbia) ist ein kanadischer Geher.

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[es] Evan Dunfee

Evan Dunfee (Richmond, 28 de septiembre de 1990) es un deportista canadiense que compite en atletismo, especialista en la disciplina de marcha.[1]

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[fr] Evan Dunfee

Evan Dunfee, né le 28 septembre 1990 à Richmond en Colombie-Britannique, est un athlète canadien, spécialiste de la marche, médaillé de bronze sur 50 km aux Jeux Olympiques de 2020 à Tokyo.

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[it] Evan Dunfee

Evan Dunfee (Richmond, 28 settembre 1990) è un marciatore canadese.

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[ru] Данфи, Эван

Эван Данфи (англ. Evan Dunfee; род. 28 сентября 1990[1], Ричмонд, Британская Колумбия) — канадский легкоатлет, специализирующийся в спортивной ходьбе. Чемпион Панамериканских игр на дистанции 20 км (2015). Бронзовый призёр летних Олимпийских игр 2020 года. Шестикратный чемпион Канады.

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