CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu's Vithya Ramraj has shown good improvement in recent times, breaking her personal-best mark twice in three weeks. At the Federation Cup, the 25-year-old clocked 13.14 seconds in women's 100m hurdles to take the top spot and fast forward to at the Chinese Taipei Athletics Open on Saturday, Nithya registered 13.12s in the heats.
Although she could not win the gold medal in the final in Taiwan, she clinched her first medal (silver) on foreign soil. She is the second-fastest female hurdler in India, only behind national record-holder Jyothi Yarraji. "She has worked very hard to get to this position. Last year, she was clocking 13.30s and Nithya breaking her personal best was on the cards. She has a lot more left in the tank and will get better as the season goes by," Nehpal Singh, Nithya's coach, told TOI.
