Singapore's Shanti Pereira of Singapore celebrates winning the women's 200m final athletics event during the 19th Asian Games at Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre on Oct. 2, 2023. The 28-year-old track-and-field athlete — often referred to as Singapore's sprint queen — brought home a gold in the women's 200-meter race and silver in the 100-meter race at the Asian Games. As a result, she could not progress beyond the Asian Games heats that year. Three weeks before the Southeast Asian Games, she finally snapped out of that downward spiral. The same year, Pereira broke the national record in the 100-m sprint six times and 200-m race four times.

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Persons: Singapore's Shanti Pereira, Shanti Pereira, —, Pereira Organizations: Singapore, Hangzhou Olympic Sports, Asian, Paris Olympics, CNBC, Games, Sports Excellence, Singapore Management University's, Southeast Asian Games Locations: Singapore, U.S