Wilmar Andrés Paredes Zapata (born 27 April 1996) is a Colombian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team . He was provisionally suspended from the sport for four years from February 2019 to February 2023. He competed as a junior at the

2014 UCI Road World Championships The 2014 UCI Road World Championships took place in Ponferrada, Spain, from 21 to 28 September 2014. The cycling championships consisted of 12 events for elite, under-23 and junior cyclists. It was the 81st UCI Road World Championships and the s ...

in the men's junior road race and as an under-23 rider at the

2015 UCI Road World Championships The 2015 UCI Road World Championships took place in Richmond, Virginia, United States from September 19–27, 2015. It was the 88th Road World Championships. Peter Sagan won the men's road race and Lizzie Armitstead won the women's road race. ...

in the men's under-23 road race. He won the gold medal at the

2016 Pan American Track Cycling Championships The 2016 Pan American Track Cycling Championships took place at the Velódromo Bicentenario, Aguascalientes City, Aguascalientes, Mexico, October 5–9, 2016. Medal summary Men Women Records In addition to the women's 500m time trial world ...

in the team pursuit. In April 2019, Paredes returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for

erythropoietin Erythropoietin (; EPO), also known as erythropoetin, haematopoietin, or haemopoietin, is a glycoprotein cytokine secreted mainly by the kidneys in response to cellular hypoxia; it stimulates red blood cell production (erythropoiesis) in the bo ...

(EPO) in an out-of-competition control taken in February 2019. folded in May, due to the doping cases of Paredes and teammate Juan José Amador.

Major results

Track

;2014 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Team pursuit,

UCI Junior World Championships The UCI Juniors World Championships were a set of UCI World Championships events for junior bicycle cyclists in 2005 to 2009. In 2010 it was divided into: *The Junior men's road race at the UCI Road World Championships *The UCI Juniors Track World ...

;2016 : 1st Gold medal blank

Team pursuit,

Pan American Championships A Pan American Championship is a top level international sports competition between athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs in the Americas. Typically these championships are recurring, the most ...

Road

;2014 : 1st Gold medal blank

Road race, Pan American Junior Road Championships ;2015 : 5th Road race, Pan American Under-23 Championships ;2017 : 1st Jersey white

Young rider classification,

Circuit de la Sarthe The Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, also known as Circuit de la Sarthe (after the 1906 French Grand Prix triangle circuit) located in Le Mans, Sarthe, France, is a semi-permanent motorsport race course, chiefly known as the venue for the 24 Hou ...

: 1st

Mountains classification,

Tour des Fjords Tour des Fjords (known as the Rogaland Grand Prix until 2012) was a road bicycle race held annually between 2008 and 2018 in the region of western Norway. The race merged with the Tour of Norway The Tour of Norway is a road bicycle race held an ...

: 1st Stage 2

Vuelta a Colombia The Vuelta a Colombia (Spanish for ''Tour of Colombia'') is an annual cycling road race, run over many stages throughout different regions in Colombia and sometimes Venezuela and Ecuador during the first days of August. It is organized by the ...

: 2nd

Klasika Primavera The Klasika Primavera ( en, Spring classic) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in April in Amorebieta, Spain. Since 2005, the race is organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road ...

;2018 : 3rd

: 6th Overall Volta Internacional Cova da Beira : 7th

La Roue Tourangelle La Roue Tourangelle is a road bicycle race held annually in the Region Centre-Val de Loire, France. The editions 2002–2004 were reserved for amateurs; from 2005 until 2012, it was organized as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour; in 2013 it be ...

: 10th Overall

::1st

Young rider classification ;2023 : 2nd Overall Vuelta al Sur : 8th Overall Vuelta a Formosa

References

External links

* 1996 births Living people Colombian male cyclists Colombian track cyclists Cyclists from Medellín Vuelta a Colombia stage winners 21st-century Colombian people {{Colombia-cycling-bio-stub