Macarena Perez Grasset

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Macarena Pérez Grasset (born 12 August 1996) is a Chilean Freestyle BMX cyclist, who won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships.

Macarena Pérez Grasset
Personal information
Full nameMacarena Pérez Grasset
Born (1996-12-19) 19 December 1996 (age 27)
Santiago, Chile
Medal record
Representing  Chile
BMX freestyle
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Urban World Championships 0 1 0
World Cup 0 0 1
World Cup rounds 0 2 2
Pan American Games 0 2 0
Pan American Championships 1 0 1
South American Games 1 0 0
Total 2 5 4
Urban World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2019 Chengdu Freestyle park
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place 2019 Lima Freestyle park
Silver medal – second place 2023 Santiago Freestyle park
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Asunción Freestyle park
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Lima Freestyle park
South American Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Asunción Freestyle park

Career

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In 2017 she took second place in the VANS US OPEN on Huntington Beach and that same year she obtained two third places in the FISE WORLD CUP in Montpellier, France and then in Chengdu, China respectively.[1]

In 2019 she took the 2nd place in the Pan American Games[2] and became the first ever Chilean woman to win a world medal in the discipline, taking silver at the UCI Urban Cycling World Championships in Chengdu behind Hannah Roberts of the US. This performance also secured her place at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3] The judges awarded her 86.80 for a ride that included a perfectly landed suicide no-hander and a tailwhip backflip.[4]

2020 Olympics

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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

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In 2024 Pérez again qualified for the Olympics Games. She got a reallocated quota after Switzerland declined their second quota.[5] 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 Mario Masanés, who also obtained a fifth place in the sprint event at the 1948 London Olympics.[6]

Competitive history

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All results are sourced from the Union Cycliste Internationale.

As of August 6th, 2024

Olympic Games

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Event Freestyle Park
  2020 Tokyo 8th
  2024 Paris 5th

UCI Cycling World Championships

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Event Freestyle Park
  2017 Chengdu DNS
  2018 Chengdu 7th
  2019 Chengdu Silver
  2021 Montpellier
  2022 Abu Dhabi 14th
  2023 Glasgow 12th

UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup

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Season 1 2 3 4 Rank Points
2022 MON
16
BRU
GOL
28 230
2023 DIR
18
MON
14
BRU
14
BAZ
13
15 790
2024 ENO
2
MON
SHA
 
8 900

References

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  1. ^ "Maca Pérez-Grasset". www.monsterenergy.com.
  2. ^ https://www.mediotiempo.com/mas-deportes/macarena-perez-grasset-chilena-impulsa-bmx-femeninof [dead link]
  3. ^ S.A.P, El Mercurio (11 November 2019). "Ya fue medallista en los Panamericanos: Macarena Pérez, la rider chilena de BMX que hizo historia al clasificar a Tokio 2020 | Emol.com". Emol.
  4. ^ "American Roberts and Australian Loupos are the new BMX Freestyle Park UCI World Champions". UCI.
  5. ^ "Athletes' quotas for BMX Freestyle women's event" (PDF). www.uci.org/. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  6. ^ "La mejor del Team Chile: Macarena Pérez logra el 5° lugar en BMX Freestyle en París 2024" (in Spanish). El Mostrador. 31 July 2024. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
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