In Guwahati, her coach Nipon Das says he wasn’t worried when Hima wasn’t among the top three at the final curve. “Her race begins in the final 80 metres. Her progress just shows how much potential she has. It has been just two years since she first wore spikes,” says the coach about her ward whose personal best is 51.13 seconds. With this win, Hima joined the top club of Indian competitors who have won awards at the World U20 Championships. However, she is the main sprinter in a corridor of notoriety that has hurlers like Seema Punia (bronze, plate), Navjeet Kaur Dhillon (bronze, disk) and Neeraj Chopra (gold, lance).