Macarena Pérez Grasset (born 12 August 1996) is a

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cyclist, who won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships.

Career

In 2017 she took second place in the VANS US OPEN on

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and that same year she obtained two third places in the FISE WORLD CUP in

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and then in

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respectively. In 2019 she took the 2nd place in the

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and became the first ever Chilean woman to win a world medal in the discipline, taking silver at the

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behind Hannah Roberts of the US. This performance also secured her place at the

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. The judges awarded her 86.80 for a ride that included a perfectly landed suicide no-hander and a tailwhip backflip.

2020 Olympics

Pérez opened the Olympic BMX Freestyle competition in the seeding round, thus providing the first performance of this sport in the Olympic history. She placed seventh in the seeding round. In the final she finished in eighth place among nine participants.

2024 Olympics

In 2024 Pérez again

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for the Olympics Games. She got a reallocated quota after Switzerland declined their second quota. In Paris Pérez obtained fifth place with a score of 84.55, just 4.25 away from the bronze medal. Her performance elevated her as the best Chilean cyclist at the Olympic Games along with

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, who also obtained a fifth place in the sprint event at the 1948 London Olympics.

Competitive history

All results are sourced from the

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. ''As of August 6th, 2024''

Olympic Games

UCI Cycling World Championships

UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup

References

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* Living people 1996 births Female BMX riders Chilean female cyclists Cyclists from Santiago, Chile Cyclists at the 2019 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 2023 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists in cycling Pan American Games silver medalists for Chile Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Chile 21st-century Chilean sportswomen {{Chile-cycling-bio-stub