Carlos Pérez Rial, (born 12 April 1979 in Cangas do Morrazo,

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) nicknamed "Perucho", is a Spanish sprint canoer who has been competing since 1999. Competing in two

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, he won a gold in the K-2 500 m event at

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along with Saul Craviotto. Pérez won seven medals at the

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with three golds (K-1 200 m:

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

, K-1 4 × 200 m:

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

) and four silvers (K-1 200 m:

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

, K-1 500 m:

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, K-2 200 m: 2009, 2010). ''Perucho'' is a member of the Piragüismo Aldán club. He is tall and weighs .

European Championship Medals

* Silver K-1 200 m 2006 Račice, Czech Republic 0:34.644 * Gold K-1 200 m 2005

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, Poland 0:36.098 * Bronze K-1 500 m 2004 Poznań, Poland 1:41.974

References

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