Vithya won gold in the women’s 4x400m relay, alongside Kiran Pahal, Machettira Poovamma and Prachi Choudhary.
Indian athlete Vithya Ramraj returned from the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, with three medals of three different colors. One meal was like 40 rupees or 10 rupees at that time. It was like in 2009.
Because a driver doesn’t get so much money because he would work for some others, like an owner, “Yeah,. Because he never had food, “Yeah,. Because then only we can run, he bought it for us to eat.
Her comments came after a memorable Asian Games campaign in which she won medals in three different events.
She said her father would sometimes skip meals to save money for the spikes she needed for training. Then they said, we will see it like that,” Vithya said. Then he will save the money too for buying me shoes like that,” she said. She said he would put his daughters’ needs before his own food. So, he always sacrificed for us,” she said.
But behind the achievement is a story of years of training and the sacrifices made by her father, who worked as a truck driver to support Vithya and her twin sister Nithya. Speaking to NDTV, Vithya recalled a time when even buying running shoes was difficult for the family. He will go and ask them, I want to buy Spikes for my daughter. Actually I have a twin sister also. She recalled that the family was struggling financially at the time, and her father found his own way to save for the shoes. “But he always skipped the food meals. He would skip and drink a cup of tea or something like biscuits together. For Vithya, her father’s support was not limited to finding money for running shoes.
