HANGZHOU - After crossing the line at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium on Friday (Sept 29), Shanti Pereira glanced up at the screen, unsure if she had qualified for the women's 100m final. She had clocked 11.42 seconds to finish third in Heat 2, behind Bahrain's Hajar Saad Al-Khaldi (11.34sec) and Thailand's Supanich Poolkerd (11.36sec). With the top two...
HANGZHOU - After crossing the line at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium on Friday , Shanti Pereira glanced up at the screen, unsure if she had qualified for the women's 100m final.
She lingered on the track for a little longer, but as she made her way to the mixed zone, she cut a composed and calm figure. Behind Ge were Al-Khaldi and her compatriot and defending champion Edidiong Ofonime Odiong, who also clocked 11.34sec.She said: "All the Chinese, Bahrain and Iranian girls... I expected very quick times from them so let's just see how the next round and the 200m goes."This will be Pereira's first appearance in an Asian Games final. The furthest she had gone previously was reaching the 200m semi-finals at the 2018 edition in Indonesia.
Fellow Singaporean Marc Louis qualified for the men's 100m semi-finals with his personal best of 10.38sec in the heats, which is just 0.01sec slower than UK Shyam's national mark of 10.37 set in 2001.
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