Shanti Pereira has beaten some of Asia’s best, but Singapore’s sprint queen faces a battle now in a race against time to be fit for the Paris...
Shanti Pereira has beaten some of Asia’s best, but Singapore’s sprint queen faces a battle now in a race against time to be fit for the Paris Olympics.
Pereira had been gearing up for the July 26-Aug 11 Paris Games with a two-month training camp in Florida, US, from the first week of February. Noting that it was a “minor problem”, Cunha said Pereira had “felt some pain” after breaking the 400m national record at the Florida Relays on March 30 – her first race of the 2024 season.
“SA will also be working closely with Luis to reorganise her training preparations towards Paris 2024 in the coming weeks.”She was to debut in the prestigious Diamond League on April 20 and April 27 in Xiamen and Suzhou, among a star-studded field that included reigning world champions Sha’Carri Richardson and Shericka Jackson .He had shared earlier that Pereira would compete in three more meets in Japan before heading to Europe for final preparations.
A month later, she rewrote her 200m national mark after clocking 22.57sec in Hungary and became the first Singaporean to reach the semi-finals of the world championships.
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