Commonwealth Games: Canadian Evan Dunfee wins gold

Canada’s Evan Dunfee says he drew on the assist of his family members to propel him to a Commonwealth Video games gold medal.

The 31-year-old from Richmond, B.C., gained the ten,000 metres on Sunday, utilizing a wonderful kick over the ultimate lap to open up a 40-metre hole on his nearest competitor.

He completed in a Commonwealth and Canadian report time of 38 minutes 36.37 seconds.

“To imagine in myself as we speak as a lot as my family and friends again dwelling believed in me,” Dunfee mentioned. “That was the purpose for as we speak, to only are available in right here and have that very same perception as everybody else has in me, and again myself, and that is what I did and I am thrilled.”

Dunfee’s victory comes after a troublesome season that noticed him battle with a nagging hamstring damage and lack of motivation largely across the elimination of the 50-kilometre occasion, by which he gained bronze at each final summer time’s Toky Olympics and the 2019 world championships. Dunfee had lobbied fiercely to maintain the occasion, however it was ultimately scrapped from the world and Olympic packages.

“I am without end going to mourn the lack of the 50K, I believe it was simply the very best occasion in observe and discipline, the very best occasion there may be simply showcasing endurance, so I am all the time going to overlook it, I am all the time going to root for it, I am all the time going to talk to its advantages and its place,” he mentioned. “However you understand, the dash occasions are enjoyable too, I assume.”

Sunday’s race was an enormous change of tempo for Dunfee, because it was held on the observe inside Alexander Stadium. Race walkers usually compete on highway programs.

“That was wonderful, to come back out right here, be within the stadium, we have by no means skilled something like this as race walkers,” he mentioned.

Canada’s Sam Schacter and Daniel Dearing captured silver in males’s seashore volleyball. The Toronto natives misplaced 2-1 to Australia’s Chris McHugh and Paul Bernett in Sunday’s remaining.

Canada’s ladies’s seashore volleyball duo of Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes performed for gold later Sunday on the penultimate day of the Video games.

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Aug. 7, 2022.