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{{short description|Chilean bicycle motocross rider (born 1996)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox cyclist
| name           = Macarena Pérez Grasset
| image          =
| caption        =
| image_size     =
| fullname       = Macarena Pérez Grasset
| birth_date     = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1996|12|19}}
| birth_place    = [[Santiago]], Chile
| show-medals    = yes
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalCountry|{{CHI}}}}
{{MedalSport|[[Freestyle BMX|BMX freestyle]]}}
{{MedalCount|total=yes
|[[UCI Urban Cycling World Championships|Urban World Championships]]|0|1|0
|World Cup|0|0|1
|World Cup rounds|0|2|2
|[[Cycling at the Pan American Games|Pan American Games]]|0|2|0
|Pan American Championships|2|0|1
|[[South American  Games]]|1|0|0
|}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UCI Urban Cycling World Championships|Urban World Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2019 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships|2019 Chengdu]]|Freestyle park}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Cycling at the Pan American Games|Pan American Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[Cycling at the 2019 Pan American Games|2019 Lima]]|[[Cycling at the 2019 Pan American Games – Women's BMX freestyle|Freestyle park]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[Cycling at the 2023 Pan American Games|2023 Santiago]]|[[Cycling at the 2023 Pan American Games – Women's BMX freestyle|Freestyle park]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|Pan American Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2023 Asunción|Freestyle park}}
{{MedalGold|2024 Santiago|Freestyle park}}
{{MedalBronze|2021 Lima|Freestyle park}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[South American Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[Cycling at the 2022 South American Games|2022 Asunción]]|Freestyle park}}
}}
'''Macarena Pérez Grasset''' (born 12 August 1996) is a [[Chile]]an [[Freestyle BMX]] cyclist, who won the silver medal at the [[2019 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships|2019 World Championships]].
==Career==
In 2017 she took second place in the VANS US OPEN on [[Huntington Beach, California|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.monsterenergy.com/sports/bmx/maca-perez-grasset|title=Maca Pérez-Grasset|website=www.monsterenergy.com}}</ref>
In 2019 she took the 2nd place in the [[Pan American Games]]<ref>https://www.mediotiempo.com/mas-deportes/macarena-perez-grasset-chilena-impulsa-bmx-femeninof {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> 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 (BMX cyclist)|Hannah Roberts]] of the US. This performance also secured her place at the [[2020 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/Deportes/2019/11/11/966846/Macarena-Perez-BMX-JJOO-quien.html|title=Ya fue medallista en los Panamericanos: Macarena Pérez, la rider chilena de BMX que hizo historia al clasificar a Tokio 2020 &#124; Emol.com|first=El Mercurio|last=S.A.P|date=11 November 2019|website=Emol}}</ref> The judges awarded her 86.80 for a ride that included a perfectly landed suicide no-hander and a tailwhip backflip.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uci.org/news/2019/american-roberts-and-australian-loupos-are-the-new-bmx-freestyle-park-uci-world-champions|title=American Roberts and Australian Loupos are the new BMX Freestyle Park UCI World Champions|website=UCI}}</ref>
===2020 Olympics===
Pérez opened the Olympic BMX Freestyle competition in the seeding round, thus providing the first performance of this sport in the Olympic history. She placed seventh in the seeding round. In the final she finished in eighth place among nine participants.
===2024 Olympics===
In 2024 Pérez again [[Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification|qualified]] for the Olympics Games. She got a reallocated quota after Switzerland declined their second quota.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x5an/6AwlQi3gLBGF5fkyL7wIRx/716b677dfeef92e9606923686f992f5d/20240704_NOCsQualifies_Women_BMX_Freestyle.pdf|title=Athletes' quotas for BMX Freestyle women's event|website=www.uci.org/|publisher=[[Union Cycliste Internationale]]|access-date=4 July 2024}}</ref>
In Paris Pérez obtained fifth place with a score of 84.55, just 4.25 away from the bronze medal. Her performance elevated her as the best Chilean cyclist at the Olympic Games along with [[Mario Masanés]], who also obtained a fifth place in the [[Cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's sprint|sprint event]] at the 1948 London Olympics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cooperativa.cl/noticias/deportes/juegos-olimpicos/chilenos/macarena-perez-sello-su-clasificacion-a-los-juegos-olimpicos-de-paris/2024-07-04/084845.html|title=La mejor del Team Chile: Macarena Pérez logra el 5° lugar en BMX Freestyle en París 2024|publisher=[[El Mostrador]]|date=31 July 2024|access-date=6 August 2024|language=Spanish}}</ref>
== Competitive history ==
All results are sourced from the [[Union Cycliste Internationale]].
''As of August 6th, 2024''
===Olympic Games===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|- "
!style="width:190px;"|Event
!Freestyle Park
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's BMX freestyle|2020 Tokyo]]
| 8th
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's BMX freestyle|2024 Paris]]
| 5th
|}
===UCI Cycling World Championships===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|- "
!style="width:190px;"|Event
!Freestyle Park
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|CHN}} [[2017 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships|2017 Chengdu]]
| {{Abbr|DNS|did not start}}
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|CHN}} [[2018 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships|2018 Chengdu]]
| 7th
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|CHN}} [[2019 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships|2019 Chengdu]]
| style="background:silver"|'''Silver'''
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|FRA}} [[2021 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships|2021 Montpellier]]
| —
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|UAE}} [[2022 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships|2022 Abu Dhabi]]
| 14th
|-
| align=left |{{flagicon|GBR}} [[2023 UCI BMX Freestyle World Championships|2023 Glasgow]]
| 12th
|}
===UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Season
! 1
! 2
! 3
! 4
! Rank
! Points
|-
| |[[2022 UCI BMX Freestyle World Cup|2022]]|| bgcolor="#dfffdf"|[[Montpellier|MON]]<br />16 || [[Brussels|BRU]]<br />— || [[Gold Coast, Queensland|GOL]]<br />— ||
! 28
! 230
|-
| |[[2023 UCI BMX Freestyle World Cup|2023]]|| bgcolor="#dfffdf"|[[Diriyah|DIR]]<br />18 || bgcolor="#dfffdf"|[[Montpellier|MON]]<br />14 || bgcolor="#dfffdf"|[[Brussels|BRU]]<br />14 || bgcolor="#dfffdf"|[[Bazhong|BAZ]]<br />13
! 15
! 790
|-
| |[[2024 UCI BMX Freestyle World Cup|2024]]|| bgcolor="#dfdfdf"|[[Enoshima|ENO]]<br />2 || [[Montpellier|MON]]<br />— || bgcolor="#dfffdf"|[[Shanghai|SHA]]<br />8 ||
! 5
! 1470
|}
==References==
{{reflist}}
== External links ==
* {{Olympics.com profile|macarena-perez-grasset}}
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[[Category:Pan American Games silver medalists for Chile]]
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