Asian Para Games 2026: Sandeep Sets World Record To Bring Gold In Men's 400m T64; Ajay Kumar Adds Bronze

In the men’s 400m T64 event at the Asian Para Games 2026, Indian athlete Sandeep set a world record to win the gold medal. Also, another Indian Ajay Kumar secured the bronze medal with a games record.

The Men’s 400m T64 final event had only one T64 athlete, Ajay Kumar, while all other seven athletes were T44-classified athletes. T44 and T64 are the classifications for the athletes with lower limb impairments. While the T44 athletes don’t use running prosthetics, the T64 athletes use running prosthetics.

By completing the final race in 52.28 seconds, Sandeep set a new world record in the men’s 400m T44 classification, breaking the previous record of Saudi Arabian Nour Alsana’s 52.81m (2023). In the meantime, Nour Alsana claimed the silver medal with his season-best finish of 53.13 seconds. The only T64 athlete in the final, Ajay Kumar, brought a bronze for India with a new Games record after finishing the race in 53.61 seconds.

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While the Bangladeshi athlete Md Selim Reza didn’t participate, the other four athletes, Huang Ruihua from China (54.39), Ivan Jovic Suan from Malaysia (55.71), Naif Almasrhi from Saudi Arabia (57.91), and Jawad Alalawi from Saudi Arabia (59.23), had their respective personal best performances.