Education
Mithibai College.
Mithibai College.
He holds the current national record in 110 m hurdles with a time of 13.65 seconds, set at the Belgium Athletics National Championship held in Brussels on 17 June 2012. Siddhanth is a second year commerce student at Mithibai College, Mumbai. He followed it up with a Bronze medal at the 9th National Federation Cup junior athletics championships.
Thingalaya had a training stint at South Africa under the Mittal Champions Trust and clocked 14.31 seconds at the high altitude Potchefstroom in March 2010.
Thingalaya improved his personal best timing to 14.20 seconds in the heats of men"s 110 m hurdles during the 50th National Inter-State Athletics Championships held in Patiala. In the finals, on 7 August 2010, he broke the Indian National record (held by K Krishna Mohan) by clocking 13.81 seconds while winning the gold.