Oceania record

Paramjeet Singh Bisht: Priyanka Goswami finished 41st in the women’s 20km race walk while Vikash Singh was ranked 30th and Paramjeet Singh Bisht 37 in the men's race walk event at the Olympic Games on Thursday. The 28-year-old Priyanka, the only Indian participant in the women's event in Paris, clocked 1:39:55 at the Trocadero on her second Olympic appearance.

On the opening day of the Athletics competitions in Paris on Thursday, Yang Jia Yu of China won the gold medal with a season-best time of 1:25:54. Spain’s Maria Perez clocked her 1:26:19 to bag silver and Australia's Jemima Montag took bronze with an Oceania Record of 1:26:25.

At Tokyo 2020, Goswami was in the lead of the 20km race walk event at the halfway mark but slipped down to finish 17th.