Canadian Evan Dunfee has claimed bronze in the 50-kilometre race walk at the Tokyo Olympics.
SAPPORO, JAPAN -- Canada's Evan Dunfee surged the final metres of the Olympic men's 50-kilometre race walk to claim a bronze medal Friday.
Poland's Dawid Tomala captured gold in three hours 50 minutes eight seconds, ahead of Germany's Jonathan Hilbert in 3:50:44. Hirooki Arai of Japan was disqualified for bumping Dunfee before Arai was reinstated to the bronze medal upon appeal. China's Yadong Luo took an early lead off the start line with French world-record holder Yohann Diniz giving chase. Dunfee followed in a chase pack wearing a wet towel around in his neck.
Diniz faded again, however, and was among 10 men who dropped out. Dunfee remained in a dwindling chase pack as Tomala increased his lead to three minutes by 40k.
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