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PEREIRA'S PARIS SETBACK
The Straits Times
|April 16, 2024
Coach Cunha allays fears about sprinter’s injury, but adds that plans have to change
Shanti Pereira has beaten some of Asia's best, but Singapore's sprint queen faces a battle now in a race against time to be fit for the Paris Olympics.
The 27-year-old, who won a historic 200m gold at the Hangzhou Asian Games in 2023, suffered an injury during a training camp in the United States which could put her second Olympic outing in jeopardy.
Responding to queries from The Straits Times, Singapore Athletics (SA) confirmed on April 15 that Pereira has a leg injury. ST understands that it is a knee issue and that she underwent a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan in Singapore on April 11.
Pereira had been gearing up for the July 26-Aug 11 Paris Games with a two-month training camp in Florida, US, from the first week of February.
She made her Olympic debut in Tokyo 2020 on a universality place and notched a significant milestone in August 2023, when she qualified for the 200m on merit at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
This story is from the April 16, 2024 edition of The Straits Times.
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