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Macarena Perez Grasset

Macarena Perez Grasset

Chilean bicycle motocross rider (born 1996)

Macarena Pérez Grasset (born 12 August 1996) is a Chilean Freestyle BMX cyclist.

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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 Tokyo Olympics.[3] The judges awarded her 86.80 for a ride that included a perfectly landed suicide no-hander and a tailwhip backflip.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Maca Pérez-Grasset". www.monsterenergy.com.
  2. [2]
    https://www.mediotiempo.com/mas-deportes/macarena-perez-grasset-chilena-impulsa-bmx-femeninof [dead link]
  3. [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. [4]
    "American Roberts and Australian Loupos are the new BMX Freestyle Park UCI World Champions". UCI.


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