Caio Bonfim
Caio Oliveira de Sena Bonfim (born 19 March 1991)[1] is a Brazilian racewalker.[2][3] In the 20 km walk, he was a silver medalist at the 2024 Olympic Games and a bronze medalist at the 2017 and 2023 World Championships. He also finished 4th at the 2016 Olympic Games. His mother, Gianetti Bonfim, was also an international racewalker for Brazil.[4]
Career
He competed in the 20 km walk at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where he placed 39th.[5] In 2013 he won bronze at the Pan American Race Walking Cup.[6] In May 2015 he won silver at the Pan American Race Walking Cup.[7] At the 2015 Pan American Games, he won a bronze medal in the Men's 20 kilometres walk with a time of 1:24:43. He broke a 24-year fast without Brazil winning medals in this event at the Pan American Games, since Marcelo Palma's bronze in 1991.[8] At the 2015 IAAF World Championships, he finished 6th with a time of 1:20:44, equaling Brazil's best result in the sport at World Championships. Bonfim repeated the position of Sérgio Galdino from Santa Catarina at the World Championship in Stuttgart (Germany), in 1993.[9] At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Bonfim competed well. In the Men's 20 kilometres walk, he finished 4th with a time of 1:19:42, a Brazilian record, just 5 seconds behind the bronze medalist. In the Men's 50 kilometres walk, he finished 9th, again breaking the Brazilian record with a time of 3:47:02.[10][11] At the 2017 World Championships held in London, Bonfim won the bronze medal, the first for a Brazilian in this sport, in the 20 km walk, again lowering his Brazilian record, with a mark of 1:19:04.[12] At the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, he won the silver medal in the 20 km walk, just 7 seconds behind Ecuadorian Brian Daniel Alvez.[13] He also finished 4th in the 50 km walk.[14] He qualified to represent Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[15][16] In May 2021 he won silver at the Pan American Race Walking Cup.[17] At the 2022 South American Games he won a gold medal in the 35 km walk and a bronze medal in the 20 km walk. With this, he was chosen as the male flag bearer for Team Brazil at the Closing Ceremony of the South American Games.[18] At the 2023 World Athletics Championships, Bonfim won his second bronze medal at the World Championships in the Men's 20 kilometres walk, breaking the Brazilian record, with a time of 1:17.47.[19]
At the 2023 Pan American Games, Bonfim won silver in the 20 kilometres walk, completing the race in 1:19.24. During the 20km, he took the lead a few times, alternating with David Hurtado, who finished in front with 1:19.20 and broke the Pan American Games record.[20] In the debut of the Race walk mixed team, Bonfim and Viviane Lyra obtained the bronze medal.[21] In March 2024, at the Taicang GP, in China, he broke the Brazilian record for the 20 km walk, which was already his, with a time of 1.17:44. This time is just 23 seconds off the South American record of 1.17:21, set by the Ecuadorian Jefferson Pérez and 1 minute and 8 seconds off the world record of 1:16.36 made by the Japanese Yusuke Suzuki.[22] At the 2024 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the 20 km race walk, the first in Brazil's history.[23]
Personal bests
Road walk
- 10 km: 39:03 min – Spain Madrid, 30 Apr 2023
- 20 km: 1:17:44 hrs – China Taicang, 3 Mar 2024
- 50 km: 3:47:02 hrs – Brazil Rio de Janeiro, 19 Aug 2016
Track walk
- 5000 m: 19:47.99 min – Brazil Fortaleza, 11 May 2011
- 10,000 m: 39:57.59 min (ht) – Spain La Nucia, 21 May 2022
- 20,000 m: 1:19:52.1h hrs (ht) – Brazil Bragança Paulista, 27 June 2024
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2007 | Pan American Race Walking Cup (U20) | Balneário Camboriú, Brazil | 8th | 10 km | 45:40 |
2nd | Team (10 km) | 11 pts | |||
Pan American Junior Championships | São Paulo, Brazil | 5th | 10,000m track walk | 44:34.95 | |
World Youth Championships | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 12th | 10,000m track walk | 45:16.88 | |
2008 | South American Race Walking Championships (U-18) | Cochabamba, Bolivia | 2nd | 10 km | 47:00 min |
World Race Walking Cup (U20) | Cheboksary, Russia | — | 10 km | DQ | |
World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 6th | 10,000m track walk | 42:18.33 | |
South American Youth Championships | Lima, Peru | 1st | 10,000m track walk | 43:21.9 min CR | |
2009 | Pan American Race Walking Cup (U20) | San Salvador, El Salvador | 1st | 10 km | 43:04 min |
3rd | Team (10 km) | 17 pts | |||
South American Junior Championships | São Paulo, Brazil | 1st | 10,000m track walk | 42:43.58 | |
Pan American Junior Championships | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | 2nd | 10,000m track walk | 42:43.58 | |
2010 | South American Race Walking Championships (U20) | Cochabamba, Bolivia | 1st | 10 km | 43:08 min |
2nd | Team (10 km) | 12 pts | |||
South American Under-23 Championships / South American Games |
Medellín, Colombia | 3rd | 20,000m track walk | 1:33:05.1 | |
World Race Walking Cup (U20) | Chihuahua, Mexico | — | 10 km | DQ | |
World Junior Championships | Moncton, Canada | 4th | 10,000m track walk | 41:32.28 | |
2011 | Pan American Race Walking Cup | Envigado, Colombia | 10th | 20 km | 1:31:00 |
South American Championships | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 4th | 20,000m track walk | 1:20:58.5 | |
Universiade | Shenzhen, China | 8th | 20 km | 1:27:19 | |
World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 22nd | 20 km | 1:24:29 | |
Pan American Games | Guadalajara, Mexico | — | 20 km | DQ | |
2012 | South American Race Walking Championships | Salinas, Ecuador | 1st | 20 km | 1:23:59.0 hrs |
1st | Team (20 km) | 15 pts | |||
World Race Walking Cup | Saransk, Russia | 17th | 20 km | 1:22:05 | |
14th | Team (20 km) | 152 pts | |||
Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 39th | 20 km | 1:24:45 | |
South American U-23 Championships | São Paulo, Brazil | 1st | 20,000m track walk | 1:23:22.83 | |
2013 | Pan American Race Walking Cup | Guatemala City, Guatemala | 3rd | 20 km | 1:25:27 |
1st | Team (20 km) | 38 pts | |||
South American Championships | Cartagena, Colombia | 1st | 20,000m track walk | 1:24:28.40 | |
World Championships | Moscow, Russia | — | 20 km | DQ | |
2014 | South American Race Walking Championships | Cochabamba, Bolivia | — | 20 km | DQ |
World Race Walking Cup | Taicang, China | 16th | 20 km | 1:20:28 | |
Ibero-American Championships | São Paulo, Brazil | 4th | 20,000m track walk | 1:24:49.52 | |
2015 | Pan American Race Walking Cup | Arica, Chile | 2nd | 20 km | 1:21:26 |
World Championships | Beijing, China | 6th | 20 km walk | 1:20:44 | |
2016 | World Race Walking Team Championships | Rome, Italy | 8th | 20 km | 1:20:20 |
Ibero-American Championships | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 1st | 20,000m track walk | 1:26:40.7 | |
2016 Olympics | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 4th | 20 km | 1:19:42 | |
9th | 50 km | 3:47:02 | |||
2017 | World Championships | London, Great Britain | 3rd | 20 km walk | 1:19:04 |
2019 | Pan American Games | Lima, Peru | 2nd | 20 km | 1:21:57 |
4th | 50 km | 3:57:54 |
References
- ↑ "Treinado pelos pais, brasiliense passa a colher resultados na marcha atlética". Folha de S. Paulo. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
- ↑ "Caio Bonfim". London 2012. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
- ↑ Biography – BONFIM Caio, PASO, retrieved 4 February 2015
- ↑ Caio Bonfim, o "Messias anunciado" por Gianetti Sena, é penta na Copa Brasil (in Portuguese). Brasil2016. Retrieved on 2016-09-25.
- ↑ "Men's 20km Race Walk Results". London 2012. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
- ↑ Catálogo atleta caio bonfim
- ↑ "Brasileiro é prata na Copa Pan-Americana de marcha". espn.com.br.
- ↑ "Caio Bonfim é bronze na marcha atlética". Gazeta do Povo.
- ↑ "Caio Bonfim é 6º e iguala recorde do Brasil na marcha atlética em Mundiais – 23/08/2015 – Esporte – Folha de S.Paulo". folha.uol.com.br.
- ↑ "Caio Bonfim bate recorde do Brasil mas fica a cinco segundos do bronze". www.uol.com.br.
- ↑ "Caio Bonfim, da marcha atlética, vai disputar Campeonato Australiano de 50km neste sábado". ge. 30 November 2018.
- ↑ "Caio Bonfim faz prova incrível e leva 1ª medalha da história da marcha brasileira".
- ↑ "É prata! Caio Bonfim fica com o segundo lugar nos 20km da marcha atlética no Pan de Lima". ge. 4 August 2019.
- ↑ Cunha, Gustavo. "Caio Bonfim termina em quarto na marcha atlética 50km em Lima". Rede do Esporte.
- ↑ "Caio Bonfim bate índice olímpico pela quarta vez e vence Troféu Brasil". Olimpíada Todo Dia (in português do Brasil). 12 June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ↑ "Athletics BONFIM Caio – Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Tokyo 2020. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
- ↑ "Caio Bonfim conquista a prata na Copa Pan-Americana de marcha atlética". ge. 7 May 2021.
- ↑ "Brasil define porta-bandeiras para encerramento nos Jogos Sul-Americanos". Terra.
- ↑ "Caio Bonfim conquista o bronze na marcha no Mundial de atletismo". ge. 19 August 2023.
- ↑ "Caio Bonfim conquista a prata nos 20km da marcha atlética no Pan-Americano". UOL. 29 October 2023.
- ↑ Brasil, Comitê Olímpico do. "Caio Bonfim e Viviane Lyra ficam com bronze em prova inédita d..." Comitê Olímpico do Brasil.
- ↑ "Caio Bonfim conquista o bronze no GP de La Coruña". www.bol.uol.com.br.
- ↑ "Caio Bonfim faz história e conquista a prata na marcha atlética das Olimpíadas de Paris". ge. 1 August 2024.
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