Chandigarh, Sep 10 (PTI) Born within minutes of each other, twin sisters Vithya and Nithya Ramraj lived cheek by jowl in a sports hostel, played together, and will be in close proximity as they represent India in the Asian Games.

Twins making it to the Indian team in any sport is rare but Vithya and Nithya, belonging to a poor family near Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore, did just that, with their homemaker mother being the person behind their success story.

Vithya and Nithya figure in the sports ministry’s list of 65 track and field athletes for the upcoming Hangzhou Asian Games. Vithya will compete in 400m hurdles and Nithya in 100m hurdles.

“Nithya and I are twins and we have qualified for the Asian Games. Our mother Meena is so happy hearing that we are going together for the Asian Games,” Vithya, who ran the 400m race at the Indian Grand Prix 5 here, told

Source: PTI News