Brendan Boyce finished 25th in the men’s 35k race walk at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon.
The Finn Valley AC man finished with season’s best time of 2:33.31.
The race started at 6.30am but Boyce started slowly, making his way up the order and made it to 25th, only 42 seconds off of the Irish record.
Boyce’s training partner Sweden’s Perseus Karlstrom, finished third in 2:23:44, while Massimo Stano from Italy took gold in 2:23:14 with Masatoro Kawano of Japan claiming silver in 2:23.15.
