María Isabel Pérez (sprinter)
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| Full name | María Isabel Pérez Rodríguez | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Spanish | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 March 1993 Seville, Spain | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and Field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 100 metres | ||||||||||||||
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María Isabel Pérez Rodríguez (born 1 March 1993) is a Spanish sprinter. She competed for Spain at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games.
Early life
She was born in Seville, but grew up living in Jerez de la Frontera. She started out in athletics at the Puma Chapín Jerez club when she was seven years-old.[1]
Career
Perez ran for Spain the 2018 European Athletics Championships in the 4x100 metres relay in Berlin, Germany. [2] She competed in the individual 100 metres at the 2020 Olympic Games, she finished fifth in her heat running a time of 11.51.[3]
She was part of the Spanish 4 × 100 m team that finished fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, breaking the Spanish national record and running 42.58 seconds.[4] She was selected for the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich in August 2022 to run both the individual 100 metres and the 4x100m relay.[5] The relay team finished fourth in the final with a time of 43.03 seconds.[6]
She ran as part of the Spanish 4 × 100 m relay team at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.[7] She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024 to run both the individual 100 metres and the 4x100m relay.[8] At the Championships, the Spanish relay team qualified for the final, and placed fifth overall.[9]
She was officially selected for the 2024 Paris Olympics in July 2024.[10] In the relay, the team ran a seasons best 42.77 seconds but did not progress to the final.[11]
She set a new Spanish record of 7.15 seconds and won the Spanish national 60 metres title in February 2025.[12] She was selected for the 60 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Appeldoorn where she qualified for the semi-finals.[13] She was selected for the Spanish relay pool for the 2025 World Athletics Relays in China.[14] In the 4 x 100 metres relay she was part of a team alongside Jaël Bestué, Esperança Cladera, Paula Sevilla who won their opening race ahead of Jamaica containing Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson, with a time of 42.18 seconds, setting a Spanish national record, and ensuring qualification for the 2025 World Championships.[15] She was part of the Spanish 4 x 100 metres team, again alongside Esperança Cladera, Sevilla and Bestue, which set another new Spanish record of 42.11 seconds at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships First Division in Madrid on 28 June.[16]
Personal life
She studied physiotherapy at the University of Seville.[17] She subsequently worked as a physiotherapist in Seville. She is coached by her uncle Luis Rodríguez who competed for Spain at the 1991 World Athletics Championships.[2]
Personal bests
Outdoor
- 100 metres: 11.07 (Nerja; 2022)
- 200 metres: 24.28 (Pamplona; 2019)
- 4 x 100 metres: 42.58 NR (Eugene, OR; 2022)
Outdoor
- 60 metres 7.15 (Madrid; 2025) NR
International competitions
References
- ^ "María Isabel Pérez, destination Tokyo". Andalucia.information.es (in Spanish). 18 July 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ a b "Athletics: PEREZ Maria Isabel". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "Tokyo Olympics: Athletics - Women's 100m results". BBC Sport. 31 July 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ Valdepeñas, Onda Cero (25 July 2022). "Éxito internacional de las atletas Sonia Molina-Prados y Paula Sevilla". ondacero.com. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ "Sixteen record holders lead #SpainAthletics at the European Championships in Munich". Royal Spanish Athletics Federation. 11 August 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 15 August 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ "Women 4x100m Results - World Athletics Relays Championships 2024". World Athletics. 5 May 2024. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ "#EspañaAtletismo Road to Roma: Preselección definitiva". Royal Spanish Athletics Federation. 30 May 2024. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ "Spain's list for athletics at the Paris Olympics". sport.es. 3 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
- ^ "Women's 4x100m Relay Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 9 August 2024. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ "Doroshchuk clears 2.32m world lead in Kyiv". European Athletics. 24 February 2025. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ "Women's 60m Results - European Athletics Indoor Championships 2025". Watch Athletics. 9 March 2025. Retrieved 8 April 2025.
- ^ "Las 26 bazas de #EspañaAtletismo para los World Athletics Relays". Atletismorfea.es. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
- ^ Shakeel, Maleehah (10 May 2025). "Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson Left Stunned as Jamaica Suffers Major Upset Against Surprising Opponents". Essentially Sports. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
- ^ Broadbent, Chris (28 June 2025). "Double Dutch! The Netherlands win men's and women's 4x100m races with national records". Eurorpean Athletics. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
- ^ Pecellín, Javier D. (2 August 2015). "Maribel Pérez, a Sevillian with a flying gene". elcorreoweb.es. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
External links
- María Isabel Pérez at World Athletics
- María Isabel Pérez at European Athletics
- María Isabel Pérez at RFEA (in Spanish)
- María Isabel Pérez at Olympedia
- María Isabel Pérez at Olympics.com
- María Isabel Pérez at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- María Isabel Pérez Rodríguez at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish) (archived)
- María Isabel Pérez – COE – Paris 2024 (in Spanish)