Singapore’s Pereira beats Euro sprint champion to win 200m gold in Berlin

Going places: Singapore’s Shanti Pereira (left) clocked 23.32s in the 200m final at the Mittsommernacht Athletics meet.

SINGAPORE: Sprint queen Shanti Pereira dusted off the confetti from her conquering of Asia and now has her eyes set on Europe.

She clocked 23.32 seconds to claim gold in the 200m at the Mittsommernacht Athletics meet, beating German Gina Luckenkemper, current European 100m and 4x100m relay champion, by 0.09sec in Berlin on Sunday.

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