42-year-old record broken: Trucker’s daughter Vithya Ramraj rewrites history

Vithya Ramraj broke PT Usha’s 42-year-old nationalist grounds successful the women’s 400m hurdles, clocking a idiosyncratic champion 54.75 seconds to triumph bronze astatine the Asian Games 2026 successful Aichi-Nagoya. The Indian hurdler had equalled Usha’s 55.42-second people astatine Hangzhou successful 2023. A trucker’s girl from Coimbatore, Ramraj has since represented India astatine the Paris Olympics and won different bronze astatine the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships.