ATHLETE PROFILE

María Pérez was born in Orce (Granada) in 1996. He began practicing race walking at school, at the age of 11, under the direction of Jacinto Garzón, who has been his coach ever since. .
She participated in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, placing fourth in the 20 km event.
In 2022 she participated in both the World Championships and the European Championships, but was disqualified on both occasions for irregular walking.
In March 2023 he broke his Spanish record in the 20 km by more than a minute over the course of the Spanish Championships. In May, she managed to break the 35 km world record with a time of 2:37:15 during the European Team Championships, where she also won the gold medal with the Spanish national team. That same year she was crowned two-time world champion by winning the 20 km race with a time of 1:26:51, ahead of Australia’s Jemima Montag and Italy’s Antonella Palmisano, and the 35km ahead of Kimberly García and Antigoni Drisbioti.