Shanti Pereira
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Nationality | Singapore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Singapore[1] | 21 September 1996||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 54 kg (119 lb)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 metres, 200 metres, 4 x 100 metres relay, 4 x 400 metres relay | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Veronica Shanti Pereira (born 20 September 1996)[3] is a Singaporean Indian track and field athlete who specialises in the 100 metres, 200 metres, 4 x 100 metres relay, and 4 x 400 metres relay.
Pereira holds the national records for the 100 metres (11.58s)[4][5] and 200 metres (23.60s),[6] and is the first female Singaporean to have clocked under 12s and 24s for the 100m and 200m respectively.[7] She also holds the U-23 records for the 100 metres (11.80s) and 200 metres (23.99s) and was a member of the teams which set the records for the 4 x 100 metres (46.64s) and 4 x 400 metres (3:44.80) relays; the U-19 records for the 100 metres (11.89s) and 200 metres (23.99s); the U-17 records for the 100 metres (12.21s) and 200 metres (24.92s); and U-15 records for the 100 metres (12.68s).[8]
In 2013, Pereira became the first female Singaporean to run the 100 metres in under 12 seconds when she clocked 11.89s at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Donetsk, Ukraine.[2] At the 2013 Southeast Asian Games, she came in fourth in the 100 metres final.[9] In 2014, she became the first female Singaporean to run the 200 metres in under 24 seconds when she clocked 23.99s at the Asian Junior Athletics Championships.[10]
At the 2015 Southeast Asian Games, Pereira won the bronze medal in the 100 metres with a time of 11.88s, Singapore's first medal in the event in 42 years.[4] She also won the gold medal in the 200 metres with a time of 23.60s, rewriting the national record she had set in the day's heats (23.82s).[6] This was Singapore's first gold medal in a sprint event in 42 years.[11] Although the Singapore quartet which she was part of came in fourth in the 4 x 400 metres relay, it broke the oldest record in Singapore's athletics history with a time of 3:40.58.[12] In her final event, the 4 x 100 metres relay, the team came in fourth, but set a new national record of 45.41s.[13]
Pereira studied for a diploma in sports and leisure management offered jointly by Republic Polytechnic and Singapore Sports School.[14] In 2017, she was awarded the Yip Pin Xiu Scholarship to study accountancy at Singapore Management University.[15]
At the 2017 Southeast Asian Games, Pereira won the bronze medal in both the 100 and 200 metres; she repeated this feat at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games.[16]
In 2021, Pereira qualified for the 200 metres in the 2020 Summer Olympics through universality places.[17] She finished 6th in her heat with a season-best timing of 23.96s.[18]
References[]
- ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Veronica shanti Pereira Profile". results.glasgow2014.com.
- ^ a b c "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-06-12. Retrieved 2015-06-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Veronica Shanti PEREIRA | Profile". www.worldathletics.org.
- ^ a b "Shanti Pereira bags 100m bronze, Singapore's first in 42 years". sg.news.yahoo.com.
- ^ "Athletics: Shanti Pereira clocks 11.58sec to break her own 100m national record at Asian Athletics C'ships". The Straits Times. April 21, 2019.
- ^ a b http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/sea-games-athletics/1905710.html
- ^ https://www.sportsschool.edu.sg/qql/slot/u728/02%20%20NEWSROOM/02%20Our%20Publications/Champions%20Way/2016/Champions%20Way%202016_online.pdf
- ^ (PDF). June 22, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150622071530/http://www.singaporeathletics.org.sg/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2015/06/Records-as-of-2015-Jun-15.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-22. Missing or empty
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(help) - ^ Lum, Nicole. "SEA Games Athletics (Women's 100m): Shanti Pereira powers home for Singapore's first medal since 1973". RED SPORTS.
- ^ "Shanti not to be denied". TODAYonline.
- ^ "Shanti Pereira storms to 200m SEA Games gold, Singapore's first sprint triumph in 42 years". sg.news.yahoo.com.
- ^ "SEA Games: Women's 4x400m relay break 41-year-old national record". TODAYonline.
- ^ "SEA Games 2015: Relay mark but gold still eludes quartet". AsiaOne. 2015-06-14. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ "Running in the family". AsiaOne. 2015-05-04. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ "National Sprinter Shanti Pereira is first recipient of SMU's Yip Pin Xiu Scholarship". www.smu.edu.sg. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/sea-games-2019-athletics-shanti-pereira-claims-bronze-200m-12163638
- ^ Abdul Aziz, Sazali (2 July 2021). "Athletics: Sprinter Shanti Pereira bound for the Tokyo Olympics on universality place". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- ^ "Athletics - Round 1 - Heat 5 Results". olympics.com. 2021-08-02. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
External links[]
- Shanti Pereira at World Athletics
- Shanti Pereira at Olympedia
- 1996 births
- Singaporean female sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Singapore
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Living people
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Singapore
- Southeast Asian Games medalists in athletics
- Southeast Asian Games gold medalists for Singapore
- Southeast Asian Games bronze medalists for Singapore
- Competitors at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games
- Competitors at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games
- Asian Games competitors for Singapore
- Competitors at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Singapore