Shanti Pereira

Shanti Pereira
Shanti Pereira at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games
Full name	Shanti Veronica Pereira
nation	Singapore
birthday	20th September 1996 (age 23)
place of birth	Singapore
size	164 cm
Weight	54 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
status	active
Medal table
Southeast Asian Games 1 × 0 × 5 × U20 Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Southeast Asian Games gold Singapore 2015 200 m bronze Singapore 2015 100 m bronze Kuala Lumpur 2017 100 m bronze Kuala Lumpur 2017 200 m bronze Capas 2019 100 m bronze Capas 2019 200 m Junior Asian Championships bronze Colombo 2012 200 m silver Taipei 2014 200 m bronze Taipei 2014 100 m
last change: October 14, 2019

Shanti Veronica Pereira (born September 20, 1996 in Singapore ) is a Singaporean sprinter .

Athletic career

For the first time Shanti Pereira appeared internationally at the Junior Asian Championships 2012 in Colombo . There she finished fifth over 100 meters in 12.21 s and won the bronze medal in the 200-meter run in 25.09 s . Before that, she took part in the Asian Indoor Championships in Hangzhou and reached the semifinals there in the 60-meter run , but did not start there. In 2013 she took part in the Youth World Championships in Donetsk , where she reached the semi-finals over 100 and 200 meters, where she was eliminated with 11.96 s and 24.76 s respectively. She then reached fourth place in the 100-meter run at the Southeast Asian Games in Naypyidaw in 11.99 s , as well as over 200 meters in 24.16 s and with the Singaporean 4-by-400-meter relay in 3:44 , 80 min. At the Asian Indoor Championships in Hangzhou in 2014, she finished seventh over 60 meters with a new national record of 7.61 s. Then she won at the Junior Asian Championships in Taipei in 23.99 s the silver medal over 200 meters, in 11.79 s bronze over 100 meters and took fifth place in the Singapore 4 x 100 meter relay in 46.78 s . So she qualified for the Junior World Championships in Eugene , where she reached the semi-finals over 200 meters. Also at the subsequent Commonwealth Games in Glasgow she was eliminated with 24.29 s in the semi-finals over 200 meters and failed with the 4 x 100 meter relay with 46.84 s in the preliminary round. She then took part for the first time in the Asian Games in Incheon , South Korea , where she retired over 100 meters with 12.02 s in the first round and finished eighth in the 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 49.97 minutes .

In 2015 she won the Southeast Asian Games in Singapore in 23.60 seconds over 200 meters and won the bronze medal in the 100 meter run in 11.88 seconds behind the Philippine woman Kayla Anise Richardson and Tassaporn Wannakit from Thailand. In addition, she took fourth place with the 4-by-100 and 4-by-400-meter relay. At the World Championships in Beijing she was disqualified over 200 meters with 24.22 s already in advance of. Two years later she finished seventh over 200 meters at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar in 23.80 s and with the Singapore 4 x 100 meter relay she also reached this rank in 45.97 s. At the Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur she won the bronze medal over 100 meters behind the Vietnamese Lê Tú Chinh and Zaidatul Husniah Zulkifli from Malaysia in 11.76 s . Also over 200 meters she won the bronze medal behind these two athletes in 23.68 s and reached fourth place in both relay competitions, setting a new national record with the 4 x 100 meter relay with 44.96 s. In 2018 she took part again in the Asian Games in Jakarta and was eliminated there with the relay and over 100 meters in the first round, while she was eliminated over 200 meters with 24.33 s in the semifinals. The following year she reached the semi-finals over 100 meters at the Asian Championships in Doha , was eliminated over 200 meters in the first round and finished seventh in the relay in 45.78 s. In July she reached the semi-finals over 100 meters at the Summer Universiade in Naples , where she was eliminated with 11.73 s. At the end of September she retired at the World Championships in Doha with 24.00 s in the first round . In December she then won the bronze medal over 100 meters behind the Vietnamese Lê and Kristina Knott from the Philippines in 11.66 s at the Southeast Asian Games in Capas and she also won bronze over 200 meters behind them in 23.77 s. In addition, she reached sixth place in the 4 x 100 meter relay in 45.37 s.

Personal best

• 100 meters: 11.58 s (+0.4 m / s), April 21, 2019 in Doha ( Singaporean record )
  • 60 meters (hall): 7.61 s, February 15, 2014 in Hangzhou ( Singaporean record )
• 200 meters: 23.60 s (+0.3 m / s), June 10, 2015 in Singapore ( Singaporean record )
• 400 meters: 55.75 s, June 26, 2016 in Hong Kong

Web links

Commons : Shanti Pereira  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Shanti Pereira in the database of World Athletics (English)