Vithya hurdling her approach to glory within the twenty eighth Nationwide Federation athletics championships in Kochi on Wednesday
| Photograph Credit score: R.Ok. Nithin
Olympian Vithya Ramraj seems to be in Nationwide record-breaking type this season. The 26-year-old from Tamil Nadu broke the six-year-old ladies’s 400m hurdles meet file on the twenty eighth Nationwide Federation athletics championships right here on Wednesday and predicted larger issues this 12 months.
“I may have gone sooner however I used to be drained after yesterday’s 400m. Had we had the hurdles tomorrow, I’d have absolutely finished 54s,” stated Vithya who clocked 56.04s and completed greater than two seconds forward of Anu Raghavan.
Vithya equalled the nice P.T. Usha’s Nationwide file of 55.42s on the final Asian Video games the place she received the bronze. She felt the indicators have been good that the 41-year-old file would fall this 12 months.
Focusing on the Worlds
“I’m aiming for the Worlds and my aim is 54s. I had clocked 56s early this season, a form of time I may solely handle late final season. I’ll absolutely finish this 12 months with 54,” stated Vithya who additionally achieved the AFI’s qualification normal for the Asians.
In the meantime Karnataka’s P. Yashas clocked a private finest 49.32s whereas profitable the lads’s 400m hurdles (49.32s) however was upset that he couldn’t get the 49.19s for an Asian ticket.
In one other nook of the Maharaja’s Stadium, Punjab’s Nationwide Video games champion Niharika Vashisht was celebrating a triple bounce private finest (13.49m), a last-round effort that noticed her beat Kerala’s Sandra Babu by 1cm for the gold.
The 29-year-old had accomplished a two-year doping suspension in February 2022 and now seems stronger than ever, bettering her PB by greater than 40cm in a 12 months’s time.
The outcomes (winners solely):
Males: 400m hurdles: P. Yashas (Kar) 49.32s; 3000m steeplechase: Sunil Joliya Jinabhai (Guj) 8:43.82s; hammer throw: Damneet Singh (Reliance) 68.30m.
Girls: 400m hurdles: Vithya Ramraj (TN) 56.04s (MR, Previous: 57.21s, Saritaben Gayakwad, 2019); 3000m steeplechase: Manju Ajay Yadav (MP) 10:34.08; triple bounce: Niharika Vashisht (Pun) 13:49m; shot put: Vidhi (UP) 16.10m.
Printed – April 23, 2025 09:12 pm IST
