Evan Dunfee

Evan Dunfee (born September 28, 1990) is a Canadian race walker. He is the Canadian record holder, setting the record for the for the 20 kilometres race walk at 1:20:13 and also the 15 km walk at 1:00:06+ in progress at the 2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Taicang, China. Both records also count as North American area records. Teammate Iñaki Gómez set the national record for the 10 km race walk in the same race.

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 and the 2012 Oceania Race Walking Championships and sixth at the 2010 Commonwealth Games usually very close to teammate and training partner Gomez.

Dunfee lives in Richmond, British Columbia, training up to 50 km a day while also studying Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia.^[1] In his free time he is an active blogger both for his own diary^[2] and for Athletics Canada where he is the leading journalist/investigator of the doping scandal and coverup surrounding Russian coach Viktor Chegin.^[3] His work has been quoted by Associated Press^[4] and Inside the Games^[5]

He set his 50 km personal best of 3:58:34 on December 14, 2014 at the Australian National Championships in Melbourne.^[6]

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