When Shanti Pereira sprinted to Singapore's first athletics Asian Games gold in 49 years no one was prouder than her parents watching from the stands in Hangzhou. Pereira draped herself in the Singapore flag after her 200m triumph and ran towards mum, dad and boyfriend Tan Zong Yang, a former athlete, in the crowd. The 27-year-old Pereira quit her job as a copywriter this year to become a full-time athlete, a leap of faith that has clearly paid off. "So proud, so proud to see that. I just got emotional," dad Clarence said after her gold, according to Channel News Asia. "What we hoped for her to do, she did. I'm still in a daze." It was Singapore's first athletics gold ...Keep on reading: Asian Games: Shanti Pereira ends Singapore athletics gold drought