Shanti Pereira made history by topping the Asian women's 100m outdoor rankings for World Athletics thanks to that performance..
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Singapore sprinter Shanti Pereira broke the country’s 100-meter record again on Saturday in the final of the Australian Open Track and Field Championships in Brisbane, just one day after doing so in the heats. With her winning time of 11:37 seconds, the 26-year-old lowered her previous record by 0:01 seconds. Australia’s Torrie Lewis and Bree Masters came in 0.1 seconds, and 0.4 seconds behind, respectively.
As of March 3, when Pereira ran the New Zealand Track and Field Championships in Wellington in 11.46 seconds, he had improved the national 100-meter record three times in that time. She made history by topping the Asian women’s 100m outdoor rankings for World Athletics thanks to that performance. She told The Sunday Times that she didn’t anticipate breaking another record on Saturday because she was running into a headwind of 0.4 meters per second as opposed to the tailwind, she experienced the day before.
Shanti Pereira continued, “I was targeting a podium finish, so I’m overjoyed to have emerged with a gold.” She won her semi-final earlier on Saturday in 11.58 seconds. As I begin my season, she said, “It just feels good to get in some really good races this month. To what comes next, I’m looking forward.”
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The Australian competition, according to her coach Luis Cunha, served as a warm-up for upcoming major competitions like the SEA Games in Cambodia from May 5–17. According to him, “For the final, we wanted her to try something different in terms of race execution and to enjoy herself in this competition, where there was no pressure for her – just enjoyment.
Although she had recently been outpaced by at least three other girls in terms of speed, she believed she could compete for medals. I had therefore anticipated that she would do so. The outcome was flawless despite being extremely close.” She had also broken the national record at the Brisbane Track Classic with a time of 23.16 seconds in the women’s 200 meters.
Before the Southeast Asia (SEA) Games, she will compete in the Singapore Open Track and Field Championships from April 26 to 28 after her time in Australia and New Zealand, where she will defend her 200-meter title. The hurdler from Singapore, Ang Chen Xiang, also established a national record there in Wan Chai. He beat out local competitors Lee Ka Yiu and Mui Ching Yeung by 0.16 and 0.19 seconds, respectively, to win the men’s 110-meter hurdles event at the Hong Kong Athletics Series 3 competition. At the 2022 Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, the 28-year-old broke his 13:94 national record, earning him a silver medal.
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