Ángel Pérez (born February 2, 1971, in Havana) is a Cuban-born American Sprint Kayaker who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s.
In 1993 he and two other Cuban athletes sneaked away from an altitude training center in Mexico City, and sought asylum in Miami.
Four years later in the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, for the United States, US Citizen Pérez finished sixth in both the K-2 500 m and the K-4 1000 m events.
A few hours before the start of the Sydney Games, Perez was legally allowed to compete.
Angel Perez, a Certified General Contractor, currently resides with his wife, Mari, and two children, Andres Roberto (b.