About Jefferson Pérez
Jefferson Leonardo Pérez Quezada is an Ecuadorian retired race walker. He specialised in the 20 km event, in which he won the first two medals his country achieved in the Olympic Games. With few weeks of preparation he won the race AID, winning the right of representing Ecuador in New York City and London as a sport ambassador. His first regional trophy in the 5 km walk during the South American Pre-Junior championship held in his native city of Cuenca. His first international achievement occurred when he won the bronze medal in the Junior World Cup of Athletics in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 1990.
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