PEREZ Maria

Olympic Games

Year	Location	-70 kg
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	9

World Championships

Year	Location	-63 kg	-70 kg
2021	Budapest, HUN	-	17
2019	Tokyo, JPN	-	7
2018	Baku, AZE	-	5
2017	Budapest, HUN	-	2
2015	Astana, KAZ	-	33
2013	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	-	9
2007	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	17	-

Pan American Games

Year	Location	-70 kg
2019	Lima, PER	3

Pan American Championships

Year	Location	-70 kg
2020	Montreal, QC, CAN	2
2019	Lima, PER	1
2018	San Jose, CRC	5

World Masters

Year	Location	-70 kg
2021	Doha, QAT	17
2019	Qingdao, CHN	17
2018	Guangzhou, CHN	5

Grand Slam - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	9th	16th	17th	30th-33rd
2021	-70 kg	-	-	-	-	1x	1x	-	-	-
2020	-70 kg	-	-	-	1x	-	1x	-	-	-
2019	-70 kg	-	-	-	-	2x	-	-	-	-
2018	-70 kg	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-
2017	-70 kg	-	-	1x	-	1x	1x	-	-	-

Grand Prix - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2020	-70 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x
2019	-70 kg	-	-	1x	-	1x	-	1x	-	-
2018	-70 kg	-	1x	-	-	1x	-	2x	-	-

World Cup - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2017	-70 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-

Grand Slam, Grand Prix & World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2017	-70 kg	World Cup	Lima, PER
2	2018	-70 kg	Grand Prix	Agadir, MAR
3	2019	-70 kg	Grand Prix	Tbilisi, GEO
3	2017	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Tokyo, JPN
5	2020	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Budapest, HUN
7	2021	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Antalya, TUR
7	2019	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Brasilia, BRA
7	2019	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Baku, AZE
7	2019	-70 kg	Grand Prix	Montreal, FRA
7	2018	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Paris, FRA
7	2018	-70 kg	Grand Prix	Budapest, HUN
7	2017	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Yekaterinburg, RUS

Athlete

Spanish

Jonathan Medrano [national], PUR; Rafael Ferrer [fitness]

She took up the sport at age nine in Carolina, Puerto Rico. (Athlete, 08 Aug 2016; Facebook page, 11 Dec 2019)

"I had many problems at school. I was always fighting with everybody. That's why my grandmother took me to judo. I told her, 'Grandma, I want to be a karateka like my father', and she took me to the Sports School in Carolina [Puerto Rico]. However, karate class was full. I was mad because of it but I saw another door that said judo and told my mother to take me there. I became curious about judo and once I knew that I would put everybody on the ground I said, 'Here is where I need to be'." (Judo Boricua Facebook page, 08 May 2020)

To win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. (Judo Boricua Facebook page, 08 May 2020)

Winning a silver medal in the -70kg category at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. (Facebook page, 01 Sep 2020; SportsDeskOnline, 22 Sep 2020)

US judoka Kayla Harrison. (Athlete, 08 Aug 2016)

Her family, coach Jose Garcia. (Athlete, 08 Aug 2016)

"If you can dream it, you can achieve it." (Athlete, 08 Aug 2016)