DUNDICE: Canadian Evan Dunfee broke the men`s 35-kilometre race walk world record with a time of two hours, 21 minutes and 40 seconds in Dundice, Slovakia on Saturday.

Dunfee, 34, shaved seven seconds off the record set by Japan`s Masatora Kawano last October, going solo from start to finish and beating his closest challenger German Christopher Linkee by three minutes behind.

Dunfee was a bronze medallist at the 50km event in the 2019 World Championships and the 2020 Olympic Games.

Kawano`s time had been the first to meet the world record requirements set out in 2022 when the discipline was made official.

The 35km race replaced the 50km event as a standard championship event in 2022.-Reuters