Perseus Karlström (born 2 May 1990) is a Swedish male

racewalker Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Race judges carefully asse ...

. He competed in the 20 kilometres walk event at the

2013 World Championships in Athletics The 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics (Moscow 2013) () was an international athletics competition held in Moscow, Russia, from 10–18 August 2013. Initially, Russia won the most gold medals to top the table for the first time since 200 ...

. He also competed in the 20 kilometres walk event at the

2015 World Championships in Athletics The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ...

in Beijing, China, but did not finish. He was bronze medallist at the

2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held betw ...

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2019. Born in

Växjö Växjö ( ) is a city and the seat of Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden. It had 70,489 inhabitants (2019) out of a municipal population of 95,995 (2021). It is the administrative, cultural, and industrial centre of Kronoberg County ...

, he is the son of international racewalker Siv Gustavsson. His brother, Ato Ibáñez, is also an international racewalker for Sweden.SWEDISH TEAM – MEDIA GUIDE. IAAF World Championships in Athletics – Daegu 2011
. Swedish Athletics Federation. Retrieved on 22 February 2014.

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* * Living people 1990 births People from Växjö Swedish male racewalkers Olympic athletes of Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Sweden World Athletics Championships medalists Sportspeople from Kronoberg County 20th-century Swedish people 21st-century Swedish people European Athletics Championships medalists {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub

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