April 03, 2023, 12:21 PM
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National sprinter Shanti Pereira has become the first Singaporean woman to go under 23 seconds in the 200m after she clocked 22.89 seconds during the 200m heat at the Australian Open Track and Field Championships in Brisbane on April 2.
The under-23 seconds record broke her personal best timing of 23.16 seconds, which was just set on March 25 at the Brisbane Track Classic, when she finished third.
The latest timing, a new national record, would have won the gold medal in the last five editions of the Asian Games.It was the third time in three days the 26-year-old had broken a national record.
On Saturday, April 1, she beat her own national record in the women’s 100m final with 11.37sec to win the event.
The result was 0.01s faster than the previous national record she set in the heats of the event on March 31.
She had also rewritten the national records at the New Zealand Track and Field Championships in Wellington and at the Brisbane Track Classic in March.
Her next target will be to win two golds at the May 5 to 17 Cambodia SEA Games.
At the Hanoi SEA Games in May 2022, Pereira won the 200m, her second SEA Games gold seven years after her first. She also won a silver in the 100m.
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