Jemima Montag: Last News

Commonwealth Games podium in Birmingham wearing a historic silver, it would be difficult to miss what she's holding in her left hand. Dressed in the colours of the Indian flag, it's a statue of Lord Krishna in his 'bal roop' (childhood image), devotedly called 'Bal Gopal'. On Saturday, when India had its eyes on the wrestling arena in Birmingham, a piece of athletics history was being written by the 26-year-old devotee of Lord Krishna from Muzaffarnagar. In gold-medal position for the first 4000m of the 10000m women's race-walk, Priyanka lost the top spot to Australia's Jemima Montag. But she had enough fuel in the tank to finish second for a historic silver medal with a personal best time of 43:38.83. Saturday for Indian athletics became even more special and historic when Avinash Sable broke into Kenya's dominance in the 3000m steeplechase to win a silver medal with a new national record. With four medals so far in track and field -- Tejaswin Shankar in high jump and Murali Sreeshankar in long jump being the others - this is now the best showing by Indian athletics in a CWG outside of India.

MELBOURNE :Sprinter Lachlan Kennedy and Olympic race walking medallist Jemima Montag have been ruled out of Australia's team for the athletics world championships in Tokyo.

Sports scientists from Australia, the U.S., Britain and New Zealand have formed a partnership focused on helping female athletes fulfil their potential by providing access to research and best-practice information, the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) said on Friday.

PARIS :Spain's two-times world champions Alvaro Martin and Maria Perez took the gold medal in the mixed marathon race walk relay by nearly a minute at the Paris Games on Wednesday as the event made its Olympic debut.

China’s Yang Jiayu produced a dominant performance to win the women’s 20-kilometre walk Olympic title in Paris on Thursday.

National record holder Priyanka Goswami finished a poor 41st in the women's 20km competition while Vikash Singh and Paramjeet Singh ended at lowly 30th and 37th positions respectively in the men's event as Indian race walkers produced a disappointing performance at the Paris Olympics on Thursday. Priyanka, an Asian silver medallist, clocked 1 hour, 39 minutes and 55 seconds, more than a whopping 10 minutes outside her season's best of 1:29:48, to bring up the rear. Only two race walkers finished behind her.

BUDAPEST : Maria Perez completed a Spanish double in the 20 kilometres race walk at the World Athletics Championships after comfortably beating Australia's Jemima Montag to win the women's event on Sunday, with Antonella Palmisano of Italy taking bronze.

After clinching the silver medal in the 10,000m Race Walk at the Commonwealth Games 2022, Priyanka Goswami said that it was a proud moment for her as the national flag soared after her victory. Indian athlete Priyanka Goswami clinched a silver medal for the country after finishing at second position in the final of the women's 10,000 m race walk at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham on Saturday.