The athlete Caio Bonfim made history becoming the first Brazilian march to win the World Championship, after passing his opponents in the 20 kilometer race on Saturday (20) in Tokyo. In 2024, the Brazilian had reached a historic Olympic silver medal in the 20 kilometer race of the Paris games.
The athlete Caio Bonfim made history becoming the first Brazilian march to win the World Championship, after passing his opponents in the 20 kilometer race on Saturday (20) in Tokyo. In 2024, the Brazilian had reached a historic Olympic silver medal in the 20 kilometer race of the Paris games.
At the Athletics Japan World Cup, Bonfim starred in a fantastic healing in the final stretch of the march. He started a fierce attack on the last lap of the circuit and completed the race with a time of 1h18min35s, in front of Zhaozhao Wang Chinese (1h18min43s, silver medal) and Spanish Paul McGrath (1h18minmins, bronze).
The Brazilian athlete had already won the silver in race 35 -like last Saturday. With the victory of Caio, Brazil wins its third world title of athletic history, after Fabiana Murer in the jump with stick in 2011, and Alison Dos Santos in the 400 meters with barriers, in 2022.
Pioneer in mode
In total, the account of the medals of the world of Brazilian athletics now reaches 19, four in the athletic march – and all with Caio Bonfim, 34 years old. Brasiliense is a pioneer in Brazil in this discipline and is the largest medal in the country in the world championships.
The first two were bronze in the 20 kilometers, in 2017 and 2023, before making a qualitative leap in this Tokyo World Cup. Silver and gold reward a long and arduous career.
“It wasn’t difficult here. It was difficult from the first day when I started marched until I arrived. Win the prejudice, reach these events in South America and in everyone:” Who is this boy? Brazil? Brazil does not even have the ambassador ” [do esporte]”Caio told Rfi after winning the Olympic medal in Paris in 2024.
In this edition of the World Athletics World Cup, Brazil has three medals: the two of Caio Bonfim and Alison Dos Santos’s silver won on Friday in 400 meters with barriers. He was even named champion for a moment after the disqualification of the winner, the American Rai Benjamin. Therefore, however, a characteristic of Rai has been accepted and the American was reclassified the winner.
With AFP
Source: Terra
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