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

Career

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title at the

2011 South American Junior Championships in Athletics The 39th South American Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Medellín, Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's C ...

. 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. He was initially suspended and later excluded from the games after testing positive for exogenous

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. He was banned for two years between 12.08.2012 and 11.08.2014. He competed at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...

Personal bests

*100 m: 10.11 s (wind: +1.9 m/s) –

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, 23 June 2017 *200 m: 20.32 s (wind: +0.5 m/s) – Medellín, 11 June 2017 *400 m: 45.25 s A– Medellín, 30 April 2016

Achievements

¹Did not start in the semifinals

References

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* 1993 births Living people Colombian male sprinters Doping cases in athletics Colombian sportspeople in doping cases Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Colombia Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Colombia World Athletics Championships athletes for Colombia Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 South American Games South American Games gold medalists for Colombia South American Games medalists in athletics Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Colombia Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games People from Apartadó Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games South American Games gold medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Antioquia Department 21st-century Colombian people {{Colombia-athletics-bio-stub