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SINGAPORE ��� Having relinquished their crown at the SEA Games only once in the past 15 years, it is no surprise that Thailands mens 4x100m relay team are overwhelming favourites to continue their dominance at this years SEA Games.. as up-and-coming sprinter Shanti Pereira ��� who holds the national records in the womens 100m and 200m ��� 2013 SEA Games bronze medallist (400m hurdles) Dipna Lim-Prasad, and Zubin Percy Muncherji (mens 400m).
Sheng Yao reclaims pole vault record
SINGAPORE ��� Pole vaulter Chan Sheng Yao may have set a national record of 4.91m, but Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) President Tang Weng Fei stressed he must crack the 5-metre barrier to be a medal contender at next years SEA Games on home soil.
Shanti sets new national womens 100m record
Shanti Pereira set a new national womens 100m record during her heat at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk, in the Ukraine. She clocked 11.89sec to finish second behind Russias Kristina Sivkova (11.78) and qualify for this evenings .
ST letter writer says: ���The SAA needs a leadership change.
Some 80 officials walk out on the Singapore Amateur Athletic Associations official SEA Games dinner and dance over a dispute on seating arrangements.. Loh threatens to throw Flash Sports Association president and SAAA presidency candidate, Edmond Pereira, out of the election hall after the latter challenged the legality of the SAAA election meeting.. Loh says: I dont want athletes to compete in marathons hoping to win prize-money like striking a lottery..
Spore athletics body names 130-strong SEA Games training squad
These include the 12 who have qualified, such as the mens 4x100m relay team ��� who are gunning for gold after three successive silver medals ��� rising young talent Shanti Pereira (200m), Zubin Percy Muncherji (400m), multiple SEA Games gold medallist.
Zubin rewrites national 400m record
Yesterday in Taipei, Zubin Percy Mucherji from Anglo Chinese Junior College clocked 47.29 secs in his 400m heat at the 16th Asian Junior Athletics Championships, dipping below the hand-timed 47.4s first set by Jalleh in an Asian Games trial in 1974.
Govindan happy that 200m mark finally broken
Prior to that, the closest that someone had come to breaking her mark was Shanti Pereira who equalled the time at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk, in the Ukraine, in July. Shanti, who is the national 100m record holder, finished second to .
Pereira wins 200m to meet SEA Games mark
SINGAPORE ��� National sprinter Shanti Pereira clocked 24.00secs to win the womens 200m final at the 77th Singapore Open Track and Field Championships at the National Stadium today (April 5). Although the 18-year-olds time is just off her own national .
Shanti to take on 4x400m relay next
SINGAPORE ��� Talented teen sprinter Shanti Pereira (picture) will be back in action this weekend, only a week after her scintillating individual performances at the IAAF World Youth Championships. The 16-year-old Republic Polytechnic student, who set a .
One last crack at glory
SINGAPORE ��� Chamkaur Singh Dhaliwal does not have many memories of the old National Stadium. As a schoolboy runner at Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School, he had competed there and described the experience as ���nerve-racking���. The Grand Old .
Studies come first for Lynette
In setting the new national standard of 11.89m at the Choa Chu Kang Stadium, the Victoria Junior College student re-wrote the record she set last year at the same meet by another 10cm.. of work to be done before she could be on the same level as.