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María Pérez García is a Spanish athletics competitor born on April 29, 1996, in Orce. She competes in racewalking, specifically the 20 kilometres race walk, and is also identified as a sprinter. Pérez represents Spain in international competition, having participated in the women's 20 kilometres walk at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
She is a member of the Spain Athletics team. Pérez speaks Spanish and identifies as lesbian. Her birth name is María Pérez García, and she holds Spanish citizenship.
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Key facts
- Full name
- María Pérez García
- Born
- ( 1996-04-29 ) 29 April 1996 (age 30) , Orce , Andalusia , Spain
- Height
- 1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)
- Weight
- 48 kg (106 lb)
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- Race walking
- Club
- Valencia Club de Atletismo
- Coached by
- Daniel Jacinto Garzón
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Athletics
- Team
- Spain Athletics
- Position
- Sprinter
- Nationality
- Spain
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- María
- Family name
- Pérez
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Orce
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Spain
- Mass
- 48
- Image
- María Pérez Budapest 2023 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 1.56
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- date of birth
- 1996-04-29
- birth name
- María Pérez García
- sports discipline competed in
- 20 kilometres race walk
- sexual orientation
- lesbianism
- Commons category
- María Pérez (racewalker)
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Encyclopedic overview
María Pérez García (born 29 April 1996) is a Spanish race walker. She won the gold medal in both the 20-kilometre and 35-kilometre race walks at the World Athletics Championships, held in Tokyo in 2025 and in Budapest in 2023, and placed fourth in the 20 kilometres walk at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Pérez won the gold medal in the event at the 2018 European Athletics Championships, setting a championship record in the process. She is the world record holder for the 35 km race walk with a time of 2:37:15, set on 21 May 2023 at the European Race Walking Team Championships in Poděbrady, Czech Republic.
Pérez won seven Spanish national racewalking titles.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “María Pérez” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.