Priyanka

Date of Birth: 10 Mar 1996

Age: 27

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.50/4'11''

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
Additional Information
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's 20km Race Walk	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Smart New World Qiantang River Green Belt	Women's 20km Race Walk Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Olympic Games
17	Women's 20km Walk	2020	Tokyo, JPN	1:32:36
World Championships
34	Women's 20km Walk	2022	Eugene, OR, USA	1:39:42
Asian Championships
2	Women's 20km Walk	2023	Bangkok, THA	1:34:24
World Race Walking Challenge
4	Women's 20km Walk	2017	Nomi, JPN	1:37:42

Fashion. (indianexpress, 14 Feb 2021)

Occupation:

Athlete, Railway Worker

KK Inter College, Meerut, IND

Languages spoken:

English, Hindi, Punjabi

Indian Railways [India]

Gurmeet Singh [personal], IND

Sporting relatives:

Her younger brother has competed in boxing at state level in India. (rediff, 17 Feb 2021)

She took up athletics at age 12. She also participated in gymnastics but quit the sport because she did not enjoy a six-month spell at a regional training camp. (indiatimes, 13 Feb 2021; espn, 13 Feb 2021)

"I loved sports and running in a stadium. We had a district-level competition and I took part in every race there was but didn't win a single one. The only race left was a race walk event. They only had three participants so they needed another one." (espn, 13 Feb 2021)

To compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. (Instagram profile, 15 Feb 2023)

She walks approximately 250 kilometres a week and trains for six hours a day. (rediff, 17 Feb 2021; olympicchannel, 14 Feb 2021)

Winning the 20km walk at the 2021 National Championships in Ranchi, India. (newsable, 21 Feb 2021)

Her family. (espn, 13 Feb 2021)

Philosophy:

"If you dream it, you can do it." (Facebook profile, 29 Mar 2021)

Additional Information

General
SENIOR PROMOTION
She travelled to the 2015 National Championships in Kerala, India, to compete in the junior races but when her state, Uttar Pradesh, had no athletes competing in the senior 20km race she was drafted into the team. She finished third and the time she set qualified her for the 2016 World Team Championships in Rome, Italy. "I came to know quite late that it was a 20km race. If I knew I probably would not have entered it. In the juniors we would mainly race walk over three or five kilometres. It wasn't until I participated in the nationals that I knew this is supposed to last 20km. It's not until I completed my first 20km race that I even believed I could do it." (olympicchannel, 14 Feb 2021)

OCCUPATION
Outside of athletics, she works as a clerk in the personnel department of North Eastern Railway in Uttar Pradesh, India. (hindustantimes, 02 Aug 2022; indiatimes, 13 Feb 2021)

Milestones

She became the first female athlete representing India to win a medal in a race walk event at the Commonwealth Games by claiming silver in the women's 10km walk at the 2022 Games in Birmingham, England. (SportsDeskOnline, 25 Aug 2022; indianexpress, 06 Aug 2022)

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event