Priyanka walks into new record

India’s Commonwealth Games silver medallist race walker Goswami sets national mark in 35km event at Slovakia

Commonwealth Games silver medallist race walker Priyanka Goswami has set a national record in the women’s 35km event during the Dudinska 50 competition in Dudince, Slovakia. Goswami clocked 2:56:34 on Saturday to finish 11th in the 44th edition of Dudinska 50, a World Athletics Race Walking Tour Gold Label meet that is held annually on the streets of Dudince in March. Her previous personal best was 3:13:19.

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A two-time Olympian, Goswami bettered the previous national record of 2:57:54 set by Manju Rani at the 2023 National Open Race Walking Championships in Ranchi. Paula Milena Torres of Ecuador won the women’s 35km race walk event with a time of 2:44:26. Peru’s Kimberly García (2:45:59) and Poland’s Katarzyna Zdzieblo (2:46:59) took the second and third positions respectively.

Goswami, 29, also holds the 20km race walk national record of 1:28:45, which she had set at the 2021 National Race Walking Championships in Ranchi. She had won a silver in 10,000km race walk event at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games. Meanwhile, national record holder Akashdeep Singh finished sixth in the men’s 20km race walk with a time of 1:24:13.

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