{"id":72100,"date":"2026-07-27T21:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=72100"},"modified":"2026-07-27T21:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:07:59","slug":"shanti-pereira-qualifies-for-100m-semi-finals-at-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=72100","title":{"rendered":"Shanti Pereira qualifies for 100m semi-finals at Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: Sprinter Shanti Pereira has advanced to the women\u2019s 100m semi-finals at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after winning her heat on Monday (Jul 27).<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old clocked 11.24s to rank third out of 53 overall. The time was just 0.04 seconds off the national mark of 11.20s, which she set <span>at the <\/span><span>2023 Asian Athletics Championships<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>English Olympic medallist Imani Lansiquot went through as the top qualifier at 11.04s, while Australia\u2019s Torrie Lewis was second with a time of 11.15s.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s 100m semi-finals will take place on Wednesday morning (Singapore time).<\/p>\n<p><span>At the last Commonwealth Games in England, Shanti lowered both the national 100m and 200m marks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>More recently, she <\/span><span>won the 100m crown<\/span><span> at the SEA Games in Thailand in 11.36s, before going on to <\/span><span>win the 200m <\/span><span>a few days later for her second straight sprint double at the regional competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The sprinter is also the first Singaporean woman to <\/span>clinch a sprint double<span> at the 2023 edition of the biennial event.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/sport\/shanti-pereira-womens-100m-record-commonwealth-games-6280181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Sprinter Shanti Pereira has advanced to the women\u2019s 100m semi-finals at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after winning her heat on Monday (Jul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--ohkl4lWC--\/c_crop,h_404,w_720,x_0,y_41\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/12\/13\/jer_0847_720.jpg?itok=4jV6SAQi","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27276,23685,321,12781,27275,27277,12766],"class_list":["post-72100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-100m","tag-commonwealth","tag-games","tag-pereira","tag-qualifies","tag-semifinals","tag-shanti","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}