Double Sprint Medals for Indian Women in 200m T12
The 200m T12 women’s final held on Tuesday during the Asian Para Games in Nagoya took roughly twenty-five seconds to complete. At the end of the race, India emerged with two women on the podium, Simran Sharma, who is a medalist from the Paralympics, emerged the winner and Tejalben Damor, who is a rookie, won the bronze medal. This is all you need to know if you are interested in the 2026 Asian Para Games results. But there is more.
Simran Sharma and Her Career Record
Simran Sharmacompleted the 200m T12 event in 24.80 seconds and broke the record for the Games. She is getting better every day in track and is progressing in international athletics. The 2024 World Para Athletics Championship was held in Kobe, and she won the gold medal for the 200 meters T12 event, breaking her own record with a personal best of 24.95 seconds. In Paris, she continued to win medals by securing bronze in the Paralympics and silver in the 2025 Worlds in New Delhi. Before that, she won silver at the Asian Para Games held in Hangzhou. When she was on the starting line at Nagoya representing India as one of its flag bearers, her 200m T12 performance was all about progression rather than arrival. Each medal sat a little differently from the last, and each one came with a faster clock.
Tejalben Damor and the Arrival of a Second Name
The bronze matters just as much for what it says about depth. Tejalben Damor was making her debut at this level, and she began her para-sports journey in 2022 and has specialised in sprint events since. She reached the podium with a personal best. In a race this short, the gap between a medal and a near miss can be a few hundredths of a second, which makes a career-best run on the biggest stage so far all the more striking. Two Indian women in the top three of a single women’s 200m T12 final suggests the event is no longer resting on one athlete’s shoulders. T12 is the classification for runners with a visual impairment, and a second name on the podium changes what a young athlete watching at home can picture for herself.
Neither will make it onto the evening news every night, and the truth is that there are many years of very early mornings and perseverance behind those twenty-five seconds, none of which appear on any scoreboard. With an accomplishment such as this one, a young girl gets a goal to strive for and a name to admire, and everyone involved in the para sport community knows that the work appears on the track. We will keep following the women of the women’s 200m T12 and the athletes who come after them, and we hope you will keep watching with us.
