Asian Games Day 9 Top Performer: Vithya Ramraj

BD Narayankar Aichi-Nagoya, Sept 28 (UNI) Forty-two years is a long time for any record to survive. In Indian athletics, P.T. Usha's 55.42 seconds in the 400m hurdles had begun to look less like a mark on a stopwatch and more like a monument. On Monday, Vithya Ramraj did what generations before her had failed to do - she knocked it down. The 28-year-old ran 54.75 seconds for bronze, slicing 0.67 seconds off Usha's national record and, in the process, giving India's biggest medal day at the Asian Games its most resonant moment. Vithya had already equalled the mark at…