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World champions Maria Perez of Spain and Evan Dunfee of Canada have been confirmed as the overall winners in the 2025 World Athletics Race Walking Tour following the conclusion of the Tour in Dublin on Sunday.
The scoring system combines each athlete’s three best world ranking performances from the series. The man and woman with the highest score each win US$25,000.
Perez retained her 20km and 35km titles at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25, clocking 1:25:54 and 2:39:01. Her performance score from the longer discipline contributed to her season tally in the World Race Walking Tour. Prior to Tokyo, she had also won over 20km in La Coruna and over 35km at the European Race Walking Team Championships in Podebrady.
The Spaniard’s undefeated season culminated with a winning score of 4136 in the World Race Walking Tour – the highest any athlete has ever achieved in the standings in its current format.
The athletes who claimed silver medals behind Perez in Tokyo – Mexico’s Alegna Gonzalez and Italy’s Antonella Palmisano – finished second and third respectively in the tour standings with just two points separating them. Gonzalez, the world 20km silver medallist, finished second to Perez in La Coruna then went on to win over 35km in Dublin in a North American record. World 35km silver medallist Palmisano, meanwhile, finished second to Perez in Podebrady.
Dunfee’s road racing campaign got off to a flying start as he clocked a North American record of 1:17:39 over 20km in Adelaide in February. One month later, he broke the 35km race walk world record with his 2:21:40 in Dudince.
The Canadian ended his 2025 campaign by clinching gold in the longer discipline at the World Championships in Tokyo in 2:28:22, bringing his tour tally to 4077 – the highest score ever achieved in the men’s standings in its current format.
World 20km champion Caio Bonfim, who also claimed 35km silver behind Dunfee in Tokyo, finished second in the tour standings. Earlier in the year the Brazilian had won in Kobe, where he clocked a national record of 1:17:37. World 20km bronze medallist Paul McGrath of Spain, winner at the European Race Walking Team Championships, was third in the tour.
The 2026 World Race Walking Tour – which has events in Europe, Asia, North and South America and Oceania – kicks off on 11 January with the USA 35km Race Walking Championships. The first Gold level meeting of the season will be held on 1-2 March in Taicang.
2025 World Race Walking Tour final standings
Women
1 Maria Perez (ESP) 4136
2 Alegna Gonzalez (MEX) 3960
3 Antonella Palmisano (ITA) 3958
4 Paula Milena Torres (ECU) 3925
5 Kimberly Garcia Leon (PER) 3862
6 Peng Li (CHN) 3825
7 Katarzyna Zdzieblo (POL) 3775
8 Nanako Fujii (JPN) 3770
Men
1 Evan Dunfee (CAN) 4077
2 Caio Bonfim (BRA) 4044
3 Paul McGrath (ESP) 3940
4 Toshikazu Yamanishi (JPN) 3932
5 Qian Haifeng (CHN) 3927
6 Massimo Stano (ITA) 3884
7 Christopher Linke (GER) 3853
8 Hayato Katsuki (JPN) 3850
