Walter Pérez (cyclist)
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Full name | Walter Fernando Pérez |
Born | San Justo, Argentina | 31 January 1975
Team information | |
Discipline | Track |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Endurance |
Medal record |
Walter Fernando Pérez (born 31 January 1975 in San Justo) is an Olympic gold medal-winning racing cyclist from Argentina.
Pérez, who joined the Argentine cycling team in 1992, won the Cycling World Championships in 2004 and Men's Madison gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics with teammate Juan Curuchet. Walter also won two gold medals at the Pan American Games (2003 in Santo Domingo and 2007 in Rio de Janeiro).
Walter carried the flag for his country at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, México and 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada.
In 2008, he received the Gold Olimpia Award as the best athlete of the year from his country with Juan Curuchet; and in 2010 they won the Platinum Konex Award as the best cyclist of the last decade in Argentina.
References
[edit]- "Curuchet y Pérez, dos luchadores con gloria" Crítica Digital (in Spanish)
- Walter Fernando Pérez at Cycling Archives (archived)
External links
[edit]- Walter Fernando Perez at UCI
- Walter Fernando Perez at Olympics.com
- Walter Pérez at Olympedia (archive)
- Walter Perez at the Comité Olímpico Argentino (in Spanish)
- 1975 births
- Living people
- Argentine male cyclists
- Argentine track cyclists
- UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
- Olympic cyclists for Argentina
- Olympic gold medalists for Argentina
- Olympic gold medalists in cycling
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Argentina
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Argentina
- Pan American Games medalists in cycling
- Cyclists at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Cyclists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Cyclists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Cyclists at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Cyclists at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Cyclists at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
- South American Games silver medalists for Argentina
- South American Games bronze medalists for Argentina
- South American Games medalists in cycling
- Competitors at the 2010 South American Games
- Cyclists from Buenos Aires
- Argentine cycling biography stubs
- Argentine Olympic medalist stubs