Shanti Pereira's 100m and 200m timings at the recent Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok would have won her two golds at the last Asian Games in 2018.
on Mar 31 to eclipse her own national mark by 0.08s, then won the final a day later, going 0.01s even faster.
The next day, she set her third national record in as many days when she timed 22.89s in the women’s 200m heat.But she pulled out of the 200m final later, with her coach Luis Cunha explaining that this was to avoid overstretching her both physically and mentally. "This has been mentally very tiring ... Every time she ran in the past three weeks, it was equalling the national record or a national record. You have no idea how stressful this can be," he told CNA at the time.At the 32nd SEA Games held in Phnom Penh in May, Pereira became the first Singaporean woman to
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