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

racewalker Race walking, or racewalking, 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 asses ...

. 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 (sport), athletics competition held in Moscow, Russia, from 10 to 18 August 2013. Initially, Russia at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, Russia ...

. 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 sport of athletics, athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athleti ...

Qatar Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Geography of Qatar, Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares Qatar–Saudi Arabia border, its sole land b ...

2019. Born in Stora Sundby,

Eskilstuna Eskilstuna () is a Urban areas in Sweden, city and the seat of Eskilstuna Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden. The city of Eskilstuna had 69,948 inhabitants in 2020, with a total population of 107,806 inhabitants in Eskilstuna municipality ...

, 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 Eskilstuna Municipality Swedish male race walkers Olympic athletes for 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 European Athletics Championships medalists Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics 21st-century Swedish sportsmen Sportspeople from Södermanland County {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub

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