Tokyo Olympics: Shanti Pereira runs her season-best time in 200m heats

Singapore's Veronica Shanti Pereira competes in the women's 200m heats during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. TOKYO — She had only 20-odd seconds to debut on the Olympic stage, and Veronica Shanti Pereira made them count as she clocked a season-best 23.96 seconds in the women's 200m heats at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium on Monday .

"Considering that I haven't had a proper, competitive race since 2019, I'm satisfied that I ran below 24 seconds," Pereira told"Although I had only 20-over seconds to race, my preparations actually began hours before. I was actually really nervous in the beginning of the day, because I knew I was up against many of the top runners.

She holds the national records for the women's 100m and 200m, and memorably set the 200m national record of 23.60sec while winning gold at the 2015 SEA Games, the first time in 42 years that Singapore had won a sprint gold at the biennial event.

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