SEA Games: Shanti Pereira finishes 3rd in women's 100m final
REPORTING FROM KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
Singapore’s Shanti Pereira won bronze in the women’s 100m race with a time of 11.76 seconds on Tuesday (22 August) at the Bukit Jalil National Stadium.
The 20-year-old finished behind Vietnam’s Le Tu Chinh, who clocked 11.56s to win gold, and Malaysia’s Zaidatul Husniah Zulkifli (11.74s).
“I’m very happy. I managed to get a (personal best) today in my heats and my timing was not very much off in the finals,” said Shanti after the race.
“I’m really excited for tomorrow. But I guess this is an extra motivation for me,” she added, referring to the 200m event which she will compete in on Wednesday.
Shanti, who took the bronze for the same event at the 2015 SEA Games, had also broken the Singapore record for the event in the semi-finals earlier in the day. She ran 11.73s, rewriting the old record of 11.80s.
The current SEA Games record is held by Philippines’ Lydia De Vega, who ran 11.28s in 1987.
Meanwhile, Singaporean Calvin Kang Li Loong finished 8th out of eight runners in the men’s 100m final.
The 27-year-old clocked 10.74s, while Malaysia’s Khairul Hafiz took the gold in the event, with a timing of 10.38s.
Kang had finished fourth in the 100m race in the 2015 SEA Games with a timing of 10.47s.
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