Águeda Marqués Muñoz (born Águeda Muñoz Marqués; 19 March 1999) is a Spanish track and field athlete who competes primarily over

1500m The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

on the track, but also competes as a

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Early life

From Segovia,

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, Marqués was a promising youngster, winning the silver medal in the 1000 metres for her age group at the Spanish championships in 2014. In February 2020 she was bronze medalist in the Spanish under-23 indoors championships over

3000m The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...

. She became the under-23 champion of Spain over 800 metres on 30 September 2020.

Career

Track

Marqués ran in the 1500m at the

2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held from 4 to 7 March 2021 at the Arena Toruń in Toruń, Poland. This was the second time this event was held in Poland after the 1975 edition in Katowice. The four-day competition featured 1 ...

in Torun, Poland, and qualified for the final after running a personal best time of 4:09:94 in the heats. However, after finishing seventh in the final she was disqualified after the event for jostling. Marqués was selected for the 1500m at the

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. This came after she was runner-up to Marta Perez for the Spanish national 1500 metres title in June 2022. Marqués was runner-up to Esther Guerrero in the Spanish indoors national championships 1500m in February 2023. She qualified for the final of the

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in the 1500 metres. In the final she ran a personal best time of 4.08.72, to finish seventh. In June 2023, she finished third in the 5000m at the

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in Silesia, Poland. She was selected for the 1500m at the

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in Budapest. She was selected for the

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in Glasgow where she competed in the women's 3000 metres race. She finished second at the Spanish Championships 1500 metres in June 2024. She was officially selected for the

2024 Paris Olympics ) , nations = TBA , athletes = 10,500 ''(quota limit)'' , events = 329 in 32 sports (48 disciplines) , opening = 26 July 2024 , closing = 11 August 2024 , opened_by = , stadium = Stade de France Jardins du Trocadéro and River Seine , summe ...

in July 2024.

Cross-country

Marqués also competes in cross country running, and with her club won the title of Spanish cross-country champions, in November 2022. She selected to represent Spain in the

2022 European Cross Country Championships The 2022 European Cross Country Championships was the 28th edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes. It was held on 11 December 2022 in La Mandria Park near Turin, Italy. Italy became the first country to have stage ...

in Turin on 11 December 2022. She finished seventeenth in the individual event as the Spanish women finished fourth overall.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marques, Agueda 1999 births Living people 21st-century Spanish women Spanish female middle-distance runners Sportspeople from the Province of Segovia European Games competitors for Spain Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Spain