Evan Dunfee has been recognized for his outstanding season with a pair of awards from Athletics Canada.
The world class race walker is the recipient of the Fred Begley Award as the Off Track Athlete of the Year & the Fred Tees Award recognizing the top Canadian athlete enrolled in a Canadian university.
The 24 year-old set a new Canadian 20-kilometres record of 1:20:13 on his way to an 11th place finish at the IAAF World Race Walking Cup.
Dunfee’s longtime coach was also among the winners.
Gerry Dragomir coaches a group of B.C. race walkers that also includes Inaki Gomez and Ben Thorpe. Led by Dunfee’s 11th place showing, the group was fourth at the 2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup. The Canadian team was just a single point away from the podium and recorded Canada’s best ever placing at the event.
Dragomir also received the Coaching Association of Canada’s (CAC) prestigious Jack Donohue “Coach of the Year” Award and is Athletics Canada’s inaugural winner of the the Doug Clement Coach of the Year — named after the co-founder of the Richmond Kajaks and an icon in the B.C. track and field community .
Dunfee and Dragomir will be honoured at a special Pan American Games themed alumni reception on July 24 in Toronto.
