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Indian Open Race Walking: Two-time Olympian and national record holder Priyanka Goswami will look ahead to dominating the women’s 20km event at the 12th edition of the Indian Open Race Walking competition at the picturesque Sukhna Lake here on Saturday.

Priyanka’s main focus on Saturday will be to achieve the qualification time of 1:32:00 for the women's 20km event set by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) for the Asian Athletics Championships to be held May 27 to 31. “I’m fit and should be able to clock a good time tomorrow,” the 29-year-old national record holder said.

Priyanka’s personal best and national record in women’s 20km is 1:28:45, recorded in 2021 in Ranchi, Jharkhand. Earlier this year, in March, she also improved the national women’s 35km race walk record to 2:56.34 in Slovakia.