At the final of Asiad 19 female running content of ASIAD 19, the gold medal belonged to Veronica Shanti Pereira, Singaporean athlete. She finished in the first position with a achievement of 23 seconds 03. The representative of Vietnam in this content, athlete Tran Thi Nhi Yen ranked 7th when there are 23 seconds 85, poorly in the 0.4 -second medal group.
One day earlier, Veronica Shanti Pereira also won the HCB content running 100m for women with a record of 11 seconds 27. At the age of 27, Veronica Shanti Pereira is a familiar face at world -class athletics, Asia and Southeast Asia. Vietnamese athletes also often confront Pereira in international tournaments.
The first Southeast Asian sports festival Pereira to attend was the 2013 SEA Games. At the age of 17, she soon showed talent when ranked 4th in 2 content running 100m and 200m female. The foot of Vietnam defeated Pereira back then Vu Thi Huong. In the 2015 SEA Games, when Vu Thi Huong quit playing, Pereira rose to win a bronze medal of 100m and gold medal 200m.
However, after the 2017 SEA Games, Pereira's achievement was somewhat slow. Besides having trouble with the score at the university, she was also inferior when the Vietnamese athletics had a new face to replace Vu Thi Huong. It was Le Tu Chinh, who was 1 year younger Pereira but had an impressive performance.
At the 2017 SEA Games, Tu Chinh won both 100m and 200m female content. Meanwhile, Pereira only won bronze. Pereira's unpleasant form continues until 2019, the tournament takes place in the Philippines. To prepare for the SEA Games at home, the Philippines naturalized a very strong athlete Kristina Knott.
Again, Pereira experienced a SEA Games that she became the “background” for the championship race of Le Tu Chinh. Vietnamese athletes defeated Knott to win a 100m female gold medal, while Knott surpassed Tu Chinh in the 200m female content. Pereira only walked through the shadow of two speed queens in Southeast Asia by 2022.
Before the 31st SEA Games (taking place in 2022 in Vietnam), both Tu Chinh and Knott could not play for injury. Without the strongest opponents, Pereira played impressively to win the 200m gold medal, and the 100m female gold medal. At the 32nd SEA Games in Cambodia, she won the championship in both contents.
A achievement of 1 gold medal, 1 gold medal at ASIAD 19 shows that Pereira has now reached the world level. She not only encapsulated her ability in Southeast Asia or Asia. Meanwhile, in the middle of the context of Tu Chinh no longer as before after the treatment of injury, Vietnamese athletics expect Nhi Yen to become a new “speed queen”.
