Diego Palomeque

Diego Palomeque
Palomeque (right) in 2019
Personal information
Full nameDiego Armando Palomeque Echavarría
Nationality Colombia
Born (1993-12-05) 5 December 1993
Apartadó, Antioquia
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Sprints
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)100 m: 10.11 (Asunción 2017)
200 m: 20.32 (Medellín 2017)
400 m: 45.25 (Medellín 2016)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Colombia
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima 4×400 m relay
South American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Lima 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2017 Asunción 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2017 Asunción 4×400 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima 4×400 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2015 Lima 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2011 Buenos Aires 4×400 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2017 Asunción 4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Lima 4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Lima 100 m
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Lima 4×100 m relay
South American U20 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Medellín 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2011 Medellín 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2011 Medellín 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2011 Medellín 4×400 m relay
South American U18 Championships
Silver medal – second place 2010 Santiago 400 m
Updated on 3 September 2025

Diego Armando Palomeque Echavarría[a] (born 5 December 1993 in Apartadó, Antioquia)[1] is a Colombian sprinter.

Career

He tied Aldemir da Silva Junior for the 200 metres title at the 2011 South American Junior Championships in Athletics.[2]

On 28 April 2012, Palomeque broke the Colombian National Junior Record in the 400 metres with 45.62, thereby also meeting the 'B'-Standard to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics.[3] He was initially suspended and later excluded from the games after testing positive for exogenous testosterone.[4] He was banned for two years between 12 August 2012 and 11 August 2014.[5]

He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[6]

Personal bests

  • 100 m: 10.11 s (wind: +1.9 m/s) – Paraguay Asunción, 23 June 2017
  • 200 m: 20.32 s (wind: +0.5 m/s) – Colombia Medellín, 11 June 2017
  • 400 m: 45.25 s A– Colombia Medellín, 30 April 2016

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Colombia
2010 South American Youth Championships Santiago, Chile 2nd 400 m 47.89
2011 South American Championships Buenos Aires, Argentina 2nd 4 × 400 m relay 3:09.67
Pan American Junior Championships Miramar, Florida, United States 4th 400 m 48.30
South American Junior Championships Medellín, Colombia 2nd 100 m 10.45 A (0.0 m/s)
1st 200 m 20.94 A (0.0 m/s)
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 40.08 A
2nd 4 × 400 m relay 3:08.71 A
2012 Ibero-American Championships Barquisimeto, Venezuela 5th 400 m 46.52
World Junior Championships Barcelona, Spain 30th (h) 400 m 47.55
2014 Pan American Sports Festival Ciudad de México, México 8th 100 m 10.51 A (-1.3 m/s)
9th (h) 200 m 21.09 A (-0.6 m/s)
South American Under-23 Championships Montevideo, Uruguay 3rd 200 m 21.02 (+1.4 m/s)
3rd 4 × 400 m relay 3:11.95
Central American and Caribbean Games Xalapa, México 3rd (h) 100 m 10.45 A (-0.7 m/s)
3rd 4 × 400 m relay 3:02.52 A
2015 South American Championships Lima, Peru 1st 100m 10.40 (-1.1 m/s)
2nd 200m 21.15 (0.0 m/s)
3rd 4 × 100 m relay 40.80
2017 World Championships London, United Kingdom 41st (h) 100 m 10.45
12th (h) 4 × 400 m relay 3:03.68
Bolivarian Games Santa Marta, Colombia 2nd 100 m 10.31
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 39.58
2018 South American Games Cochabamba, Bolivia 7th 100 m 10.39
– 200 m DNF
1st 4 × 100 m relay 38.97
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:04.78
Central American and Caribbean Games Barranquilla, Colombia 10th (h) 100 m 10.311
6th 4 × 100 m relay 39.17
3rd 4 × 400 m relay 3:04.35
2019 World Relays Yokohama, Japan 8th (B) 4 × 400 m relay 3:07.52
South American Championships Lima, Peru 3rd 100 m 10.47
3rd 4 × 100 m relay 39.94
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:04.04
Pan American Games Lima, Peru 21st (h) 100 m 10.65
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:01.41
World Championships Doha, Qatar 4th 4 × 400 m relay 2:59.50
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 13th (h) 4 × 400 m relay 3:03.20

1Did not start in the semifinals

Notes

  1. ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Palomeque and the second or maternal family name is Echavarría.

References

  1. ^ "HOJA DE VIDA" (PDF) (in Spanish). Colombian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
  2. ^ "iaaf.org - International Association of Athletics Federations". Archived from the original on 27 August 2012.
  3. ^ "Diego Palomeque se clasifico a Juegos Olimpicos". Hora 13 Noticias (in Spanish). 30 April 2012. Archived from the original on 18 June 2012.
  4. ^ "IOC DISCIPLINARY COMMISSION DECISION REGARDING DIEGO PALOMEQUE ECHAVARRIA" (PDF). IOC. 12 August 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2012.
  5. ^ "Diego Armando Palomeque - Colombia". Tilastopaja Oy, Littoinen, Finland. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  6. ^ "Athletics PALOMEQUE Diego". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 6 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.