Macarena Pérez

Macarena Pérez Grasset (born 12 August 1996) is a Chilean Freestyle BMX cyclist, who won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships.

Career

In 2017 she took second place in the VANS US OPEN on 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.

In 2019 she took the 2nd place in the Pan American Games 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 of the US. This performance also secured her place at the 2020 Summer Olympics. The judges awarded her 86.80 for a ride that included a perfectly landed suicide no-hander and a tailwhip backflip. 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 qualified for the Olympics Games. She got a reallocated quota after Switzerland declined their second quota. 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 sprint event at the 1948 London Olympics.

Personal life Pérez lived and trained for nine years in the United States and one year in Costa Rica. In November 2025, she announced her return to Chile.

Competitive history All results are sourced from the Union Cycliste Internationale.

As of August 6th, 2024

Olympic Games EventFreestyle Park 2020 Tokyo 8th 2024 Paris 5th UCI Cycling World Championships EventFreestyle Park 2017 Chengdu 2018 Chengdu 7th 2019 ChengduSilver 2021 Montpellier — 2022 Abu Dhabi 14th 2023 Glasgow 12th UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup