{"id":87601,"date":"2026-09-24T21:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=87601"},"modified":"2026-09-24T21:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:32:59","slug":"shanti-pereira-qualifies-for-asian-games-100m-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=87601","title":{"rendered":"Shanti Pereira qualifies for Asian Games 100m semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Pereira, who is also slated to defend her gold in the 200m, entered the Asian Games in fine form.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two months ago, she made history by becoming the first Singaporean to qualify for an individual sprint final at the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>That came in the 200m, where she clocked a then season-best 22.81s in the semi-finals before finishing eighth in the final.<\/p>\n<p>She also reached the 100m semi-finals in Glasgow, clocking 11.24s &#8211; her fastest time of the season and just 0.04 seconds shy of the national record she set at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Commonwealth Games, Pereira raced in the United Kingdom, Poland and Oman, finishing on the 200m podium at all three meets. She clocked a season-best 22.78s in Oman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/sport\/shanti-pereira-asian-games-100m-heats-6405586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pereira, who is also slated to defend her gold in the 200m, entered the Asian Games in fine form.\u00a0 Two months ago, she made history&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--Bsxx2kdW--\/c_crop,h_1125,w_1999,x_1,y_62\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/09\/24\/shanti_pereira.jpg?itok=eM18ghqi","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27276,2027,321,12781,27275,23721,12766],"class_list":["post-87601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-100m","tag-asian","tag-games","tag-pereira","tag-qualifies","tag-semis","tag-shanti","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87601","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=87601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}