Priyanka Goswami, Commonwealth Games Race Walk Medallist, Sets 35km Event National Record In Slovakia

Commonwealth Games medallist race walker Priyanka Goswami set a nationwide report in ladies’s 35km occasion through the Dudinska 50 competitors in Dudince, Slovakia. Goswami clocked 2:56:34 on Saturday to complete eleventh within the forty fourth version of Dudinska 50, a World Athletics Race Walking Tour Gold Label meet that’s held yearly on the streets of Dudince in March. Her earlier private greatest was 3:13:19. A two-time Olympian, Goswami bettered the earlier nationwide report of two:57:54 set by Manju Rani on the 2023 National Open Race Walking Championships in Ranchi.

Paula Milena Torres of Ecuador gained the ladies’s 35km race stroll occasion with a time of two:44:26. Peru’s Kimberly García (2:45:59) and Poland’s Katarzyna Zdziebło (2:46:59) took the second and third positions respectively.

The 29-year-old Goswami additionally holds the 20km race stroll nationwide report of 1:28:45, which she had set on the 2021 National Race Walking Championships in Ranchi. She had gained a silver in 10,000km race stroll occasion on the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

Meanwhile, nationwide report holder Akashdeep Singh completed sixth within the males’s 20km race stroll with a time of 1:24:13.