Evan Dunfee is one of Canada’s most decorated Track and Field athletes: he has won medals at the Pan Am Games, the World Championships, and the Olympics. But the one piece of hardware that has eluded him is a medal from the Commonwealth Games. Evan has spent his career as a 50K race walk specialist, so when World Athletics announced that it would be dropping the 50K and replacing it with a 35K distance, Evan was crushed. He thought his career might be coming to a close. But then he surprised himself with not only a 6th place finish at this summer’s World Championships, but also a Commonwealth Games gold medal, and Games and Canadian record in the 10K walk one week later.Follow Evan Dunfee HERELearn more about The Shakeout Podcast and Canadian Running Magazine on our website https://runningmagazine.ca/category/shakeout-podcast/Follow The Shakeout Podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/ShakeoutPodcastInstagram https://www.instagram.com/shakeoutpodcast/ andFacebook https://www.facebook.com/theshakeoutpodcast/Subscribe to our weekly show on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-shakeout-podcast/id1224828899243

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