Madai Pérez
 Madai Perez at the 2007 Boston Marathon |
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1998 George Town | 5000 m |
Madaí Pérez Carrillo (born 2 February 1980 in Tlaxcala) is a Mexican long-distance runner. She represented Mexico in the marathon at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Her first full marathon race was the 2003 Chicago Marathon, where she finished twelfth in 2:31:34. She finished fifth over 10,000 metres at the 2003 Pan American Games. She won the Bolder Boulder 10K race in 2004, and also won the Guadalajara Half Marathon that year, in the first of three consecutive wins. In 2005, she finished eleventh in the marathon at the World Championships in a personal best time of 2:26:50, and sixth at the 2005 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. In 2006, she finished fourth at the Chicago Marathon in a new Mexican record time of 2:22:59. In the 2007 Boston Marathon she came in third (2:30:16). At the 2007 Athletics World Championships in Osaka, Japan she finished in 15th position, thus being the best female Latin American participant (2:35:17). The old record belonged to Adriana Fernández.
At the 2008 Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitation at Stanford she finished sixth in the 10,000 meters. with a personal best of 31:30:23. In Ixtapa, Mexico on 11 May 2008, she qualified for the Olympic Marathon in a 30 km trial, finishing in first position (1:45:05), followed by Dulce Maria Rodriguez and Patricia Retiz who formed part of the team for Beijing. On 7 June, Perez finished six seconds behind winner Hilda Kibet in 32:49 for second place at the New York Mini 10K. In her last competition on 27 July 2008 before the Olympic Games, Madai finished second in the New York Half Marathon behind Catherine Ndereba and improved her personal best to 1:10:26. On 17 August 2008, Madaí finished 19th on the Olympic Marathon in Beijing – her time was 2:31:47.
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