Priyanka walks into new record

Priyanka Goswami during the 2024 Paris Olympics. Pic/Getty Images

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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