He wasn’t “not super confident”. The Mayennais Gabriel Bordier finished the 20 km walk of the European Athletics Championships in Munich in 1h28’11”, in 19th place.
The sportsman from US Saint-Berthevin, French 10,000m champion last June, had nevertheless started in the leading group but after having received three penalties, he was obliged to stop for two minutes.
The first Frenchman, Kévin Campion, finished in 6th place, 1’36” behind the Spaniard Álvaro Martín, winner in 1h19’11”.