Twenty Year Old, Aysel Shatters Her Own World Record At New Delhi 2025

IndianOil New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships started with a bang for the athletes with an intellectual impairment, as Aysel Onder set a new World Record in T20 Women’s 400m on the first day of the championship.

Twenty-year-old Aysel Onder, representing Turkiye, shattered her own World Record from last year, 54.96 sec, to a new Record time of 54.51 sec. The Paris 2024 Paralympic Silver medalist lost the gold at Kobe 2024 by just a few seconds to India’s Deepthi Jeevanji. However, she turned her silver into gold at New Delhi 2025, claiming her first-ever World Championship gold.

“I feel perfect about my race. The heats went well for me in the morning, and I am happy that I could run 54.51 in the finals. I never imagined that I would become a World Champion at this young age.”

Aysel believes that all the competitors she ran with are great, but the biggest challenge for her is herself, and she keeps trying to defeat her own expectations.

Deepthi Jeevangi wins silver for the host country

Host runner, Deepthi Jeevanji, who is a 22-year-old, qualified for the medal round with the first position in the Women’s 400m T20 event heat 2 in the morning.

The 22-year-old Telangana-born athlete secured the first position in the second heat of Round 1 of the Women’s 400m T20 event. She took 58.35 seconds, which is her season’s best performance. In the finals, Jeevanji won silver, defeated by Ukraine’s Yullia Shuliar (56.29), the Paris 2024 gold medalist.

“I am happy to win the silver medal here in New Delhi, in front of Indian supporters.“

Full results can be accessed from here.