Beijing: National record holder Priyanka Goswami clocked her best time outside the country to finish a creditable seventh in a top-class field in the 20km event at the Chinese Race Walking Grand Prix in Taicang on Sunday.
Goswami, who has already qualified for the Paris Olympics clocked 1 hour 29 minutes and 48 seconds to end the gruelling competition at seventh in the World Athletics Race Walking Tour gold label meet.
This was her best performance abroad and the third-best time of her career. She had earlier clocked 1:28:45s (NR) in 2021 and 1:28:50s in 2023 – both in Ranchi – as her two best times before Sunday.
The 27-year-old Goswami has been training in Australia for the last two months under race walk coach Brent Vallance at the high-altitude training centre near Canberra as part of her preparation for the upcoming Paris Olympics.
