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Canadian racewalker Evan Dunfee snags another 4th-place finish at World Athletics Championships

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Canadian racewalker Evan Dunfee will be going home with a pair of fourth-place finishes from the World Athletics Championships.

The 32-year-old from Richmond, B.C., ended up just off the podium in Thursday's 35-kilometre event in Budapest, blazing to a season's-best time of two hours 25 minutes 28 seconds.

Dunfee also finished fourth in the 20km event on Saturday, setting a Canadian record in the process. Evan Dunfee is 4th in the

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The concluding day of action in Budapest sees the 4x400 women's relay team of Kelly McGrory, Sharlene Mawdsley, Roisin Harrison and Sophie Becker take their place in the final.
The women's 400m relay team are the last Irish athletes in action at the World Championships, but their chances of making it to Sunday's final have diminished.
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SINGAPORE: Shanti Pereira's impressive outing at the World Athletics Championships ended on Thursday (Aug 24) after she clocked a time of 22.79s in the women's 200m semi-finals.

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