Alma Pérez
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| Full name | Alma Maria Pérez Parrado | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 December 2001 (age 24) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||||||
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Alma Maria Pérez Parrado (born 21 December 2001) is a Spanish taekwondo practitioner.[1]
Career
Perez won the silver medal at the World Taekwondo Women's Open Championships held in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh in 2021, facing Merve Dinçel in the final. She started the event as the seventh seed and defeated double Olympic medalist Tijana Bogdanovic on her way to the final.[2][3]
Perez was a bronze medalist at the delayed 2021 Summer World University Games held in August 2023 in Chengdu, China, in the women's 53 kg division.[4] That year, she was also a medalist at the 2023 European Games in the women's 53 kg division, winning silver in Kraków after facing Croatia's Ivana Duvancic in the final.[5][6]
Perez was selected to represent Spain at the 2025 World Taekwondo Championships in Wuxi, China, in the women's bantamweight division in October 2025.[7]
Personal life
She is from A Barbanza and trained at Castado Taekwondo Boiro in Boiro, Galicia. She studied at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.[8][9][10]
References
- ^ "Alma Maria Perez Parrado". Taekwondo Data. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ "Alma Pérez wins world silver medal in the -53 kg category". as.com. 27 November 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ "Dinçel wins gold in seniors' taekwondo". hurriyetdailynews.com. 28 November 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ "More than sport: Taekwondo paves way for a different future". fisu.net. 3 August 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ "ALMA PÉREZ, SILVER AT THE EUROPEAN GAMES IN KRAKOW". taekwondogalego.es. 25 June 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ "Britain's Jade Jones secures taekwondo gold at European Games 2023". Olympics. 24 June 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ "Iván García falls in the round of 16 of the Wuxi Senior World Taekwondo Championships". Galiciaxa.com. 27 October 2025. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ "The UAB wins 79 medals at the university championships of Catalonia and Spain". uab.cat. 26 June 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ "Alma Perez won a bronze medal for Castado Taekwondo Boiro at the Spanish Open". lavozdegalicia.es. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ "Adrián Salanova and Alma Pérez cross the Atlantic to compete in North Carolina". lavozdegalicia.es. 11 June 2025. Retrieved 29 October 2025.