Perko overcame illness at the 2012 London Olympic Games to be the only male sprinter to make it to all Team Sprint, Sprint and Keirin finals. He won a Bronze medal in the Sprint in his very first appearance at an Olympic Games. He now has his eyes set on Gold in Rio!Following shoulder surgery in January to repair an injury he received after being hit by a car out training the week of the 2012 World Championships in Melbourne he returned to Japan to compete in the Japanese Keirin racing. After a quick trip to KL and Australia to win a few more international races he returned to Japan to win 15 races from 16 starts and 1 second!

In 2017 Shane announced that he would continue striving towards his goal of competing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and to enable him to do so, he switched countries of representation and now competes for Russia on the International circuit. In 2017 Shane won his first big International event under the Russian banner winning the Team Sprint at the European Championships.

Shane, a Nationalised Russian Citizen is preparing for the UCI World Championships season and is aiming for his penultimate goal of competing at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020.