Tamil Nadu’s Vithya Ramraj shocked Himanshi Malik and Aishwarya Mishra as she won the women’s 400m in a personal best 52.40s at the Indian Grand Prix-5 athletics in Chandigarh on Sunday.
The results — the event was run as two races, A and B — should give a big worry to the selectors, regarding the composition of the 4x400m relay team, ahead of this month’s Asian Games in Hangzhou.
Himanshi, the fastest quartermiler in the Asiad relay team with her 51.76s at the recent inter-State Nationals in Bhubaneswar, could only finish 15th overall with a shocking 57.59s while Aishwarya was eighth (53.35). The two will also be running the individual 400m at Hangzhou.
