Caio Bonfim

Caio Bonfim
Caio Bonfim in 2019
Personal information
Full nameCaio Oliveira de Sena Bonfim
Born (1991-03-19) 19 March 1991 (age 33)
Sobradinho, Federal District, Brazil
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Country Brazil
SportAthletics
EventRacewalking
Medal record
Representing  Brazil
Men's athletics
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris 20 km walk
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2017 London 20 km walk
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Budapest 20 km 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 Mixed race walk
Pan American Race Walking Cup
Silver medal – second place 2015 Arica 20 km walk
Silver medal – second place 2021 Guayaquil 20 km walk
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Guatemala 20 km walk
South American Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Asunción 35 km walk
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Asunción 20 km walk
South American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Cartagena 20,000 m

Caio Oliveira de Sena Bonfim (born 19 March 1991)[1] is a Brazilian racewalker.[2][3] 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.[4]

Career

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 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.[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]

Personal bests

Road walk

  • 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

International competitions

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 10,000m 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 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, Peru 1st 10,000m 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 10,000m track walk 42:43.58
Pan American Junior Championships Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 2nd 10,000m 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 20,000m track walk 1:33:05.1
World Race Walking Cup (U20) Chihuahua, Mexico — 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, 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 20,000m 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 20,000m 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 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 20,000m 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 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

  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. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
  6. ^ Catálogo atleta caio bonfim
  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.
Awards
Preceded by Brazilian Athlete of the Year (Fan's Choice)
2017 		Succeeded by