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SEA Games: Singapore's top sprinter Shanti Pereira aims for sprint double

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Following her disappointment in the SEA Games 2017, national sprinter Shanti Pereira hopes to bounce back and achieve her personal best for both the 100m and 200m events at this year's SEA Games.

Singapore's top sprinter Shanti Pereira at the Kallang practice track in early November. Her 100m time of 11.58sec is the fastest in South-east Asia this year. ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG

Low Lin Fhoong

Assistant Sports Editor

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Nov 25, 2019, 05:00 AM

There is a little blue monster wrapped around Shanti Pereira's ankles as she limbers up for training at the Kallang Practice Track.

Stitch, the lovable alien from the Disney cartoon which adorns her socks, is the only monster Singapore's sprint queen knows now, after banishing the ones that used to lurk under her bed.

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