Caio Bonfim Explained
Caio Oliveira de Sena Bonfim (born 19 March 1991)[1] is a Brazilian racewalker.[2] 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.[3]
Career
He competed in the 20 km walk at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where he placed 39th.[4]
In 2013 he won bronze at the Pan American Race Walking Cup.[5]
In May 2015 he won silver at the Pan American Race Walking Cup.[6]
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.[7]
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.[8]
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.[9] [10]
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.[11]
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.[12] He also finished 4th in the 50 km walk.[13]
He qualified to represent Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[14] [15]
In May 2021 he won silver at the Pan American Race Walking Cup.[16]
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.[17]
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.[18]
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.[19] In the debut of the Race walk mixed team, Bonfim and Viviane Lyra obtained the bronze medal.[20]
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.[21]
At the 2024 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the 20 km race walk, the first in Brazil's history.[22]
Personal bests
Road walk
Track walk
International competitions
| Representing |
|---|
| 2007 | Pan American Race Walking Cup (U20) | | 8th | 10 km | 45:40 |
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Team (10 km) | 11 pts |
| Pan American Junior Championships | Sao 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 | bgcolor=silver | 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, Perú | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 10,000m track walk | 43:21.9 min CR |
| 2009 | Pan American Race Walking Cup (U20) | San Salvador, El Salvador | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 10 km | 43:04 min |
| 3rd | Team (10 km) | 17 pts |
| South American Junior Championships | Sao Paulo, Brazil | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 10,000m track walk | 42:43.58 |
| Pan American Junior Championships | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 10,000m track walk | 42:43.58 |
| 2010 | South American Race Walking Championships (U20) | Cochabamba, Bolivia | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 10 km | 43:08 min |
| bgcolor=silver | 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, México | — | 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, México | — | 20 km | DQ |
| 2012 | South American Race Walking Championships | Salinas, Ecuador | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 20 km | 1:23:59.0 hrs |
| bgcolor=gold | 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 | Sao Paulo, Brazil | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 20,000m track walk | 1:23:22.83 |
| 2013 | Pan American Race Walking Cup | Guatemala City, Guatemala | 3rd | 20 km | 1:25:27 |
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | Team (20 km) | 38 pts |
| South American Championships | Cartagena, Colombia | bgcolor=gold | 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 | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 20 km | 1:21:26 |
| 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 | bgcolor=gold | 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 | | London, Great Britain | 3rd | 20 km walk | 1:19:04 |
| 2019 | Pan American Games | Lima, Peru | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 20 km | 1:21:57 |
| 4th | 50 km | 3:57:54 | |
Notes and References
- Web site: Treinado pelos pais, brasiliense passa a colher resultados na marcha atlética . Folha de S. Paulo . 2017-12-29.
- Web site: Caio Bonfim . London 2012 . . 2012-09-15 . 2012-08-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120825124258/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/bonfim-caio-1092935/ . dead.
- http://www.brasil2016.gov.br/pt-br/noticias/caio-bonfim-o-messias-anunciado-por-gianetti-sena-e-penta-na-copa-brasil Caio Bonfim, o "Messias anunciado" por Gianetti Sena, é penta na Copa Brasil
- Web site: Men's 20km Race Walk Results . London 2012 . . 2012-09-15 . 2012-12-04 . https://archive.today/20121204184436/www.london2012.com/athletics/event/men-20km-walk/index.html . dead.
- https://casoatletismo.com.br/cac/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CAT%C3%81LOGO-CAIO-ATUALIZADO.pdf Catálogo atleta caio bonfim
- Web site: Brasileiro é prata na Copa Pan-Americana de marcha. espn.com.br.
- Web site: Caio Bonfim é bronze na marcha atlética. Gazeta do Povo.
- Web site: 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.
- Web site: Caio Bonfim bate recorde do Brasil mas fica a cinco segundos do bronze. www.uol.com.br.
- Web site: Caio Bonfim, da marcha atlética, vai disputar Campeonato Australiano de 50km neste sábado. 30 November 2018. ge.
- Web site: Caio Bonfim faz prova incrível e leva 1ª medalha da história da marcha brasileira.
- Web site: É prata! Caio Bonfim fica com o segundo lugar nos 20km da marcha atlética no Pan de Lima. 4 August 2019. ge.
- Web site: Caio Bonfim termina em quarto na marcha atlética 50km em Lima. Gustavo. Cunha. Rede do Esporte.
- Web site: 2021-06-12 . Caio Bonfim bate índice olímpico pela quarta vez e vence Troféu Brasil . 2021-06-27 . Olimpíada Todo Dia . pt-BR.
- Web site: Athletics BONFIM Caio – Tokyo 2020 Olympics . dead . 2021-08-22 . Tokyo 2020 . . en-us . https://web.archive.org/web/20210726070002/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/athlete-profile-n1354913-bonfim-caio.htm . 2021-07-26.
- Web site: Caio Bonfim conquista a prata na Copa Pan-Americana de marcha atlética. 7 May 2021. ge.
- Web site: Brasil define porta-bandeiras para encerramento nos Jogos Sul-Americanos. Terra.
- Web site: Caio Bonfim conquista o bronze na marcha no Mundial de atletismo. 19 August 2023. ge.
- Web site: Caio Bonfim conquista a prata nos 20km da marcha atlética no Pan-Americano. 29 October 2023. UOL.
- Web site: Caio Bonfim e Viviane Lyra ficam com bronze em prova inédita d.... Comitê Olímpico do. Brasil. Comitê Olímpico do Brasil.
- Web site: Caio Bonfim conquista o bronze no GP de La Coruña. www.bol.uol.com.br.
- Web site: Caio Bonfim faz história e conquista a prata na marcha atlética das Olimpíadas de Paris. 1 August 2024. ge.
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