Walter Pérez (cyclist)

Walter Perez

Walter Pérez (2019)
To person
Full name	Walter Fernando Pérez (2019)
Date of birth	January 31, 1975
nation	Argentina
discipline	Train / street
To the team
Current team	Buenos Aires Provincia
End of career	2016
Team (s)
2013	Buenos Aires Provincia
Most important successes
World Champion 2004 Olympic champion 2004
Last updated: July 9, 2018

Walter Fernando Pérez (born January 31, 1975 in San Juan ) is a former Argentine track and road cyclist . In 2008 he and Juan Esteban Curuchet became Olympic champion in two-man team driving (Madison).

Athletic career

Walter Pérez achieved his greatest successes on the track. In 2003 he won with Curuchet two runs in Madison in the World Cup in Aguascalientes and in Cape Town . At the track cycling world championships the two athletes won the bronze medal in the same discipline. The following year he won the bronze medal in Scratch at the World Championships in Melbourne and gold with Curuchet in Madison. In 2005, Pérez and Curuchet were Pan American champions in the Madison, and in the scratch, Pérez won the bronze medal. At the 2006 UCI Track World Championships in Bordeaux , he won the bronze medal in Madison with Curuchet, and in 2007 he won silver in the Omnium . At the Olympic Games in Beijing, the two Argentine cyclists won gold together in the runner-up team. In 2013 he became the Pan American team pursuit champion , together with Maximiliano Richeze , Mauro Richeze and Eduardo Sepúlveda ; together with Sepulveda he was runner-up in the two-man team driving.

With Curuchet Pérez won the six-day race in Turin in 2007 and the six-day race in Cremona with Sebastián Donadío in 2008 .

Pérez was also successful on the road. In 1999 he won the overall ranking of the Clásica des Oeste-Doble Bragado and was second in the Rutas de América . He then concentrated on the track until the 2008 Olympic Games, after which he again competed in more street races. In 2010 he won the local Vuelta a Lavalle Mendoza

In 2008, Pérez and Curuchet were named Argentina's Sportsman of the Year with the Olimpia de Oro .

Professional

After Pérez failed to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games , he ended his active cycling career. He successfully completed a coaching course for the UCI World Cycling Association in Mar del Plata . In 2018 he worked temporarily at the World Cycling Center in Aigle in order to prepare young cyclists from ten countries for the 2018 UCI World Junior Championships in the same place together with the Briton Craig MacLean .

Successes - rail

2003

• World Cup Aguascalientes - Madison (with Juan Esteban Curuchet )
• World Cup Cape Town - Madison (with Juan Esteban Curuchet )
• Argentine Champion - Madison (with Juan Esteban Curuchet )

2004

• World Champion - Madison (with Juan Esteban Curuchet )
• World Cup Moscow - Madison (with Juan Esteban Curuchet )
• World Cup Moscow - Scratch
• World Cup Sydney - Madison (with Juan Esteban Curuchet )

2005

• Pan American Champion - Madison (with Juan Esteban Curuchet )

2006

• World Cup Los Angeles - Scratch
• World Cup Los Angeles - Madison (with Ángel Darío Colla )

2007

• Six days in Turin (with Juan Esteban Curuchet )

2008

• Olympic Champion - Madison (with Juan Esteban Curuchet )

2009

• Six days Cremona (with Sebastián Donadío )

2012

• Pan American Champion - Omnium

2013

• Pan American champions - team pursuit (with Maximiliano Richeze , Mauro Richeze and Eduardo Sepúlveda )
• Pan American Championships - two-man team driving (with Eduardo Sepúlveda )

2014

• Argentine Champion - One Pursuit

Teams

• since 2013 Buenos Aires Provincia

Web links

• Walter Pérez in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Walter Pérez in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olimpias de oro www.cpd.com.ar. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
2. ^ UCI World Cycling Center: Argentinian former athlete coaching in Switzerland. UCI, June 29, 2018, accessed July 9, 2018 .