Sprinter Simran set a new Games record of 24.80sec en route to winning gold in the women’s 200m T12 event, while Deepthi Jeevanji reasserted her supremacy by snaring a second successive finish atop the podium at the continental tournament in the women’s 400m T20 event after clocking a record time of 56.36sec at the Asian Para Games here on Tuesday.

In the T12 200m sprint, Simran finished ahead of Iran’s Hajar Safarzadeh, who clocked 25.02sec. Tejalben Damor, making her debut at the continental showpiece, was third (25.23sec).