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Marco Evoniuk | |
Fullname: | Marco Ray Evoniuk |
Birth Date: | 30 September 1957 |
Birth Place: | San Francisco, California |
Height: | 1.78m (05.84feet) |
Weight: | 65kg (143lb) |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | Racewalking |
Updated: | 25 July 2013 |
Marco Ray Evoniuk (born September 30, 1957, in San Francisco, California) is a retired male race walker from the United States, who represented his native country at three consecutive Olympic Games, starting in 1984. Evoniuk had qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. He did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes.[1]
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1979 | World Race Walking Cup | Eschborn, West Germany | 35th | 50 km | 4:12:37 | |
San Juan, Puerto Rico | 3rd | 50 km | 4:24:20 | |||
1981 | World Race Walking Cup | Valencia, Spain | 13th | 50 km | 4:07:44 | |
1983 | World Race Walking Cup | Bergen, Norway | - | 50 km | DSQ | |
World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | - | 20 km | DNF | ||
9th | 50 km | 3:56.57 | ||||
1984 | Los Angeles, United States | 7th | 20 km | 1:25:42 | ||
- | 50 km | DNF | ||||
1985 | World Race Walking Cup | St John's, Isle of Man | 16th | 50 km | 4:11:03 | |
1986 | Pan American Race Walking Cup | Saint Léonard, Canada | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 50 km | 4:05:56 |
1987 | World Race Walking Cup | New York City, United States | - | 20 km | DNF | |
Rome, Italy | 17th | 50 km | 3:57.43 | |||
1988 | Seoul, South Korea | 22nd | 50 km | 3:56:55 | ||
Pan American Race Walking Cup | Mar del Plata, Argentina | - | 50 km | DNF | ||
1991 | San Jose, United States | - | 20 km | DNF | ||
1992 | Barcelona, Spain | - | 50 km | DNF | ||
1995 | Beijing, PR China | 48th | 50 km | 4:11:31 | ||
1997 | Poděbrady, Czech Republic | 68th | 50 km | 4:17:24 |