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Features - Editor - 15 July 2008

Jefferson Perez – Reaching for Olympic Gold

Ecuadorian track and field athlete, Jefferson Perez, did his country proud when he won Ecuador’s first Olympic medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics for race-walking. Proving that he was not just a “one-hit wonder”, Perez went on to set a record in his specialty of the 20 kilometer race-walk at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, followed by a gold medal in Helsinki in 2005 and another in Osaka in 2007. He also clinched fourth place finishes at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and the Athens Olympics in 2004, and has qualified to compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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