CP NewsAlert: Race walker Evan Dunfee stripped of bronze medal after Japanese protest

CP NewsAlert: Race walker Evan Dunfee stripped of bronze medal after Japanese protest | iNFOnews.ca
Evan Dunfee, of Canada, heads for the finish line in the men's 50-km race walk at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 19, 2016. Dunfee has been awarded the bronze medal in the 50-kilometre race walk event at the Rio Olympics after a Japanese athlete was disqualified. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

RIO DE JANEIRO – Canadian race walker Evan Dunfee is losing his bronze medal in the 50-kilometre event at the Rio Olympics.

Japan’s Hirooki Arai originally finished third but was disqualified for elbowing Dunfee in the final minutes of the race.

Hirooki then filed his own protest and won to regain the medal.

An Athletics Canada official confirmed Dunfee was bumped back to fourth.

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