Benjamin Thorne

Benjamin Thorne

Benjamin Thorne (2015)

nation

Canada

birthday

March 19, 1993

place of birth

Canada

Career

discipline

Go

Best performance

10,000 m: 40: 26.0 min
20 km: 1:19:55 h

National squad

since 2012

status

active

Medal table

World championships	0 ×	0 ×	1 ×
Universiade	0 ×	1 ×	0 ×

World championships
bronze	Beijing 2015	20 km
Universiade
silver	Gwangju 2015	20 km

last change: May 7, 2016

Benjamin Gary Thorne (born March 19, 1993 ) is a Canadian athlete who specializes in walking .

Thorne gained his first international competition experience in 2012 at the Walker World Cup in Saransk (84th place in the 20-kilometer race) and at the Junior World Championships in Barcelona (disqualification in the 10,000-meter track walk). At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, he finished 20th over 20 kilometers. Over the same distance he was thirteenth at the 2014 World Cup in Taicang with a new personal best of 1:20:19 hours.

At the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea, Thorne came second over 20 kilometers. In the same year he celebrated the hitherto greatest international success of his career when he surprisingly won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Beijing . It was the first world championship medal for a Canadian to walk. He also set a new national record in the 20 km walk with his final time of 1:19:57 hours.

At the team world championships in Rome in 2016, Thorne increased his best performance to 1:19:55 hours. Fifth in the individual ranking, he led the Canadian team around Iñaki Gómez and Evan Dunfee to second place behind China. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he finished 27th in the 20-kilometer distance in 1:22:28 hours.

Thorne is studying mechanical engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Web links

Benjamin Thorne in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Athlete portrait of Benjamin Thorne ( English ) gwangju2015.com. Archived from the original on September 20, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 23, 2015. @1@ 2

↑ Jon Mulkeen: Report: men's 20 km race walk - IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 ( English ) IAAF. August 23, 2015. Retrieved August 23, 2015.

↑ Lori Ewing: Ben Thorne wins bronze, sets new Canadian race walk record at IAAF worlds ( English ) CBC. August 22, 2015. Accessed August 23, 2015.

^ Paul Warburton: Report: men's 20km race walk - IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships Rome 2016 ( English ) IAAF. May 7, 2016. Retrieved May 17, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Thorne, Benjamin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thorne, Benjamin Gary; Thorne, Ben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian athlete
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1993

[universiade-1] Athlete portrait of Benjamin Thorne ( English ) gwangju2015.com. Archived from the original on September 20, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 23, 2015. @1@ 2

[2] Jon Mulkeen: Report: men's 20 km race walk - IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 ( English ) IAAF. August 23, 2015. Retrieved August 23, 2015.

[3] Lori Ewing: Ben Thorne wins bronze, sets new Canadian race walk record at IAAF worlds ( English ) CBC. August 22, 2015. Accessed August 23, 2015.

[4] Paul Warburton: Report: men's 20km race walk - IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships Rome 2016 ( English ) IAAF. May 7, 2016. Retrieved May 17, 2016.