Achieving international success is nothing new for Amiya, who earlier this year secured a silver in the Junior SAF Games at Colombo. A Plus Two first year commerce student of DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, Amiya won the under-16 100 metre titles both at the East zone and National meets last year. Similar success in National School Games and Junior Federation Cup meet has established him as one of the promising sprinters of the country. Son of government employee Arakhita Mallick, Amiya has been showing rapid improvement after coming under the tutelage of state government coach Nilamaini Deo, four years ago. He spends three hours a day for his training at the Kalinga Stadium here. According to Deo, Amiya has strong willpower and loves to face challenges. ````He is tall and lanky but has explosive power and speed in his muscles,```` points out the coach. ````If Amiya``s personal best timing of 10.8 seconds in 100 metre sprint is taken as a parametre then he should be called the current fastest man of Orissa,```` claims Deo.