Brendan Boyce finishes 25th in inaugural 35km race walk at World Championships

FINISHING LINE: Ireland’s Brendan Boyce finishes the Men’s 35K Race Walk. Pic: INPHO/Morgan Treacy

Brendan Boyce battled to a 25th-place finish in the inaugural 35km race walk at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon this morning – the Donegal athlete clocking 2:33:31 to finish 10 minutes behind gold medallist Massimo Stano of Italy.

“The race was pretty fast,” said Boyce, who finished sixth in the 50km race at the 2019 World Championships and 10th at last year’s Olympics. However, the new shorter-distance event was less to the 35-year-old’s liking.