Vithya Ramraj surges past China on the anchor leg as India takes Asian Games relay gold
Vithya Ramraj overtook China’s Siyu Zuo on the final leg and held off Bahrain as India’s women won the 4x400m in 3:29.69 at Nagoya, the country’s first athletics gold of the 2026 Asian Games.
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About M. R. Poovamma
Poovamma Raju Machettira is an Indian sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres distance. As a member of the Indian 4 × 400 m relay teams she participated in the 2016 Olympics and won gold medals at the 2014 and 2018 Asian Games and 2013 and 2017 Asian championships; individually she won a silver medal in 2013 and a bronze in 2014 at those competitions. She received the Arjuna Award in 2015 for her contributions to athletics.She was banned for a period of two years following a failed doping test in February 2021.
Everything about M. R. Poovamma →- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Citizenship
- India
- Born
- June 5, 1990