Caio Bonfim

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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]

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.

Road walk

• 10 km: 39:03 min – Madrid, 30 Apr 2023
• 20 km: 1:17:44 hrs – Taicang, 3 Mar 2024
• 50 km: 3:47:02 hrs – Rio de Janeiro, 19 Aug 2016

Track walk

• 5000 m: 19:47.99 min – Fortaleza, 11 May 2011
• 10,000 m: 39:57.59 min (ht) – La Nucia, 21 May 2022
• 20,000 m: 1:19:52.1h hrs (ht) – Bragança Paulista, 27 June 2024