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Caio Bonfim
Bonfim in 2019
Personal information
Full nameCaio Oliveira de Sena Bonfim
Born (1991-03-19) 19 March 1991 (age 35)
Sobradinho, Federal District, Brazil
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Country Brazil
SportAthletics
Event
Race walking
Medal record
Representing  Brazil
Men's athletics
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris 20 km walk
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2025 Tokyo 20 km walk
Silver medal – second place 2025 Tokyo 35 km walk
Bronze medal – third place 2017 London 20 km walk
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Budapest 20 km walk
World Team Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2026 Brasília Half marathon walk
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place 2019 Lima 20 km walk
Silver medal – second place 2023 Santiago 20 km walk
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Toronto 20 km walk
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Santiago Marathon walk relay
Pan American Cup
Gold medal – first place 2013 Guatemala City 20 km walk (team)
Silver medal – second place 2015 Arica 20 km walk
Silver medal – second place 2021 Guayaquil 20 km walk
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Guatemala City 20 km walk
Ibero-American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 20,000 m walk
Silver medal – second place 2022 Alicante 10,000 m walk
South American Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Asunción 35 km walk
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Medellín 20,000 m walk
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Asunción 20 km walk
South American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Cartagena 20,000 m walk
South American Race Walking Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Salinas 20 km walk
Gold medal – first place 2012 Salinas 20 km walk (team)
Gold medal – first place 2020 Lima 20 km walk
Gold medal – first place 2024 Recife 20 km walk
Silver medal – second place 2022 Lima 20 km walk
Pan American U20 Championships
Silver medal – second place 2009 Port of Spain 10,000 m walk
South American U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 São Paulo 20,000 m walk

Caio Oliveira de Sena Bonfim (born 19 March 1991)[1] is a Brazilian racewalker.[2][3] In the 20 km walk, he is the reigning World Champion, having won the gold medal at the 2025 World Athletics Championships. He was a silver medalist at the 2024 Olympic Games. He also finished 4th at the 2016 Olympic Games. His mother, Gianetti Bonfim, was also an international racewalker for Brazil.[4]

Career

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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]

Bonfim, 2024.

At the 2023 Pan American Games, Bonfim won silver in the 20 kilometres walk, completing the race in 1:19.24. During the 20 km, 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]

At the 2025 World Athletics Championships, he became the World Champion in the 20 km race walk, becoming the first Brazilian to do so in a race walking event at the World Athletics Championships.

Personal bests

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Road walk

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  • 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

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International competitions

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Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Brazil
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 10,000 m track walk 44:34.95
World Youth Championships Ostrava, Czech Republic 12th 10,000 m 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 10,000 m track walk 42:18.33
South American Youth Championships Lima, Peru 1st 10,000 m 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 10,000 m track walk 42:43.58
Pan American Junior Championships Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 2nd 10,000 m 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 20,000 m track walk 1:33:05.1
World Race Walking Cup (U20) Chihuahua, Mexico — 10 km DQ
World Junior Championships Moncton, Canada 4th 10,000 m 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 20,000 m 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 20,000 m 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 20,000 m 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 20,000 m 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 20,000 m 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

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  1. ^ "Treinado pelos pais, brasiliense passa a colher resultados na marcha atlética". Folha de S. Paulo. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ Biography – BONFIM Caio, PASO, retrieved 4 February 2015
  4. ^ Caio Bonfim, o "Messias anunciado" por Gianetti Sena, é penta na Copa Brasil (in Portuguese). Brasil2016. Retrieved on 2016-09-25.
  5. ^ "Men's 20km Race Walk Results". London 2012. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 15 September 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
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  7. ^ "Brasileiro é prata na Copa Pan-Americana de marcha". espn.com.br.
  8. ^ "Caio Bonfim é bronze na marcha atlética". Gazeta do Povo.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ "Caio Bonfim bate recorde do Brasil mas fica a cinco segundos do bronze". www.uol.com.br.
  11. ^ "Caio Bonfim, da marcha atlética, vai disputar Campeonato Australiano de 50km neste sábado". ge. 30 November 2018.
  12. ^ "Caio Bonfim faz prova incrível e leva 1ª medalha da história da marcha brasileira".
  13. ^ "É prata! Caio Bonfim fica com o segundo lugar nos 20km da marcha atlética no Pan de Lima". ge. 4 August 2019.
  14. ^ Cunha, Gustavo. "Caio Bonfim termina em quarto na marcha atlética 50km em Lima". Rede do Esporte.
  15. ^ "Caio Bonfim bate índice olímpico pela quarta vez e vence Troféu Brasil". Olimpíada Todo Dia (in Brazilian Portuguese). 12 June 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  16. ^ "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.
  17. ^ "Caio Bonfim conquista a prata na Copa Pan-Americana de marcha atlética". ge. 7 May 2021.
  18. ^ "Brasil define porta-bandeiras para encerramento nos Jogos Sul-Americanos". Terra.
  19. ^ "Caio Bonfim conquista o bronze na marcha no Mundial de atletismo". ge. 19 August 2023.
  20. ^ "Caio Bonfim conquista a prata nos 20km da marcha atlética no Pan-Americano". UOL. 29 October 2023.
  21. ^ Brasil, Comitê Olímpico do. "Caio Bonfim e Viviane Lyra ficam com bronze em prova inédita d..." Comitê Olímpico do Brasil.
  22. ^ "Caio Bonfim conquista o bronze no GP de La Coruña". www.bol.uol.com.br.
  23. ^ "Caio Bonfim faz história e conquista a prata na marcha atlética das Olimpíadas de Paris". ge. 1 August 2024.
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