Brendan Boyce finishes 26th in Oman

Brendan Boyce was 26th over 35k at the World Race Walking Championships in the early hours of Friday.

In Muscat, Oman, the Finn Valley AC man finished in 2:44:25, a season’s best in the distance.

Boyce’s favoured 50k distance has been dropped by the IOC and the Milford native goes now over 35k.

Sweden’s Perseus Karlstrom, a training partner of Boyce under the tutelage of former world gold medalist Rob Heffernan, won the 35k event.

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Karlstom won in 2:356:14, staving off the attention from Spaniard Alvaro Martin, who came home in 2:36:54.

In the rising Muscat temperatures, Muguel Angel Lopez, also from Spain, was third in 2:37:27.

On his debut over the distance in December, Boyce finished second at the National Senior 35k, crossing the line in 2:32:49 - a time that secured his qualification for the World Championships.

Boyce finished tenth in the 50k race walk at the Olympic Games in August, in a time of 3:53:40 and was sixth at the 2019 World Championships in Doha.