Deepthi Jeevanji Defends 400m T20 Gold With Games Record

India’s loudest moment on the track at the Asian Para Games 2026 on 20 October 2026 belonged to Deepthi Jeevanji, who won the Women’s 400m T20 title once again. The gold came with a Games Record, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the run the same day.

A title defended, and the clock pushed back

Two separate achievements sit inside the same race. Deepthi Jeevanji held on to the Women’s 400m T20 crown that was already hers, and she ran faster than the Games had ever seen in that event, so the result is a defence and a record at once. The Prime Minister described it as a remarkable accomplishment, pointing out that retaining a title while still improving a performance is harder than winning one for the first time, because a defending champion is the mark every rival aims at. He said she had shown the true spirit of a champion, that her success would inspire countless young athletes, and he wished her well for the road ahead.

Why the event is written as 400m T20

Para athletics fixes a class code to the event name so that athletes with a similar degree of impairment run against one another. The code is not decoration, it is part of the answer. Her medal is a Women’s 400m T20 gold and not simply a women’s 400m gold, and a paper setter who wants to separate a prepared candidate from a half-prepared one will put that code into the options.

The medal at a glance

For the exam

Five things travel together here: the athlete, the event with its class code, the colour of the medal, the record and the date. Deepthi Jeevanji, Women’s 400m T20, gold, a Games Record, 20 October 2026. Hold on to the fact that this was a defence of a title rather than a first win, because a question may turn on exactly that word, and remember that she bettered her own performance in the process instead of merely holding her place.