Angel Pérez
Athlete
1971 –
Who is Angel Pérez?
Ángel Pérez is a Cuban-born American Sprint Kayaker who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s.
In 1991, he was a Pan American Games 5 Gold Medalist and 1 Silver Medalist in Sprint Kayak in Havana, Cuba. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, for Cuba, he was a Semifinalist of both the K-1 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events.
In 1993 he and two other Cuban athletes sneaked away from an altitude training center in Mexico City, and sought asylum in Miami. In 1996, while already a resident of the USA and being a qualified Olympic US Canoe and Kayak Team member, he was not able to participate in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games because he was not yet a US Citizen. Four years later in the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, for the United States, US Citizen Pérez finished sixth in both the K-2 500 m and the K-4 1000 m events. Angel Perez was able to compete in Sydney, Australia despite a legal battle in the Olympic Court of Arbitrations, as Cuba fought in International Courts not to allow his former athlete to compete for the USA. A few hours before the start of the Sydney Games, Perez was legally allowed to compete.
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