Jefferson Leonardo Pérez Quezada (born 1 July 1974) is an Ecuadorian retired race walker. He specialized in the 20 km event, in which he won the first two medals his country achieved in the Olympic Games. Pérez won the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, becoming the youngest ever Olympic race walk champion. Following his win he embarked on a 459 km (285 mi) pilgrimage, walking, jogging and running from Quito's Franciscan cathedral to his hometown of Cuenca. He took silver at the 1999 World Championships and then earned three consecutive world 20km race walk titles in 2003, 2005 and 2007. His winning time of 1:17:21 in 2003 became the first official world record for the event when standards for road events were recognised from 2004 onwards. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Pérez won silver in the same event. He had fourth-place finishes in the 20 km walk at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2004 Athens Olympics. More information...
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