Canada's Evan Dunfee set a world record in the men's 35-kilometre event at the World Athletics Race Walking Tour Gold meeting in Dudince, Slovakia.

The 34-year-old from Richmond, B.C., clocked a time of two hours 21 minutes 40 seconds on Saturday in a dominant performance at the annual Dudinska 50 competition, breaking the previous mark by seven seconds.

Dunfee led from start to finish, lapping most of the field in the 50-man race.

Japan's Kawano Masatora had held the record since October from a Bronze meeting in Takahata, Japan.

It's the second record in as many months for Dunfee, who also smashed the North American mark in the men's 20km on Feb. 16 in Adelaide, Australia (1:17:39).

The three-time Olympian won Canada's first-ever Olympic medal in the 50km event with bronze at the Tokyo Games in 2021.