Overview
- Vithya Ramraj won bronze in the women’s 400m hurdles at the Asian Games on Monday, September 28, 2026, clocking a personal best of 54.75 seconds to break P. T. Usha’s 42-year-old national record.
- Mariam Kareem of the UAE took gold in a Games-record 54.31 seconds and Adelina Zems of Kazakhstan won silver in 54.58 seconds while India’s Anu Raghavan finished fifth with a personal best of 55.88 seconds.
- The 54.75 performance was Ramraj’s second medal at Aichi–Nagoya after she helped India win silver in the mixed 4x400m relay earlier at these Games.
- The Athletics Federation of India and Indian Olympic Association officials confirmed the result and P. T. Usha publicly congratulated Ramraj, saying that records are meant to be broken.
- Ramraj had equalled Usha’s 55.42s mark at the 2023 Asian Games and her rise from regional sports hostels to international relays shows a clear development pathway that now lifts the national standard in women’s hurdles.