Águeda Marqués Muñoz (born Águeda Muñoz Marqués; 19 March 1999) is a Spanish

track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

athlete who competes primarily over

1500m The 1500 metres or 1500-metre run 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 Athletics since 1983. It is equivalent to 1.5 kilometers ...

on the track, but also competes as a cross-country runner.

Early life

From

Segovia Segovia ( , , ) is a city in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Segovia. Segovia is located in the Meseta central, Inner Pl ...

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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 3000 m shou ...

. She became the under-23 champion of Spain over

800 metres The 800 metres, or 800 meters (American and British English spelling differences#-re.2C -er, US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of a ...

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 ...

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

2022 European Athletics Championships The 2022 European Athletics Championships were the 25th edition of the European Athletics Championships and were held in Munich, Germany, from 15 to 21 August 2022. They were part of the 2022 European Championships, European Championships, a multi ...

. 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 Esther Guerrero Puigdevall (born 7 February 1990) is a Spanish middle-distance runner competing primarily in the 800 metres. She won two medals for the mixed relay at the European Cross Country Championships. Guerrero represented her country a ...

in the Spanish indoors national championships 1500m in February 2023. She qualified for the final of the

2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held from 2 to 5 March 2023 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena, Ataköy Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, the first time the event took place in this country although the venue did stage the 2012 IAAF Worl ...

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

2023 European Athletics Team Championships The 2023 European Athletics Team Championships (ETC) in athletics was held at Stadion Śląski in Chorzów, Poland, from 20 to 25 June 2023. The event was initially planned to be held in Madrid, but after European Athletics and European Olymp ...

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

2023 World Athletics Championships The 2023 World Athletics Championships (), the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, were held from 19 to 27 August 2023 at the National Athletics Centre (Budapest), National Athletics Centre, in Budapest, Hungary. The tourna ...

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. She was selected for the

2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships The 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships was the 19th edition of the international indoor track and field competition, organised by the World Athletics. The event was held between 1–3 March at the Commonwealth Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velod ...

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

2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

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in August 2024, running a personal best on her way to the final and a 4:00.31 new personal best in the final. She had a sixth-place finish in the 1500 metres at the Diamond League event at the

2025 Golden Gala The 2025 Golden Gala was the 44th edition of the annual outdoor track and field meeting in Italy. Held on 6 June at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, it was the fifth leg of the 2025 Diamond League – the highest level international track and field c ...

in Rome on 6 June 2025. The following week, she ran a personal best 8:34.27 for the 3000 metres in Stockholm at the

2025 BAUHAUS-galan The 2025 BAUHAUS-galan was the 59th edition of the annual outdoor track and field meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. Held on 14 and 15 June 2025 at Stockholm Olympic Stadium, it was the seventh leg of the 2025 Diamond League – the highest level inte ...

, both events part of the

2025 Diamond League The 2025 Diamond League is the sixteenth season of the annual series of outdoor track and field meetings, organised by World Athletics. The competition is a revision to the top level athletics series since Diamond League foundation in 2010. Th ...

Cross-country

Marqués also competes in

cross country running Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and soil, earth, pass through woodlands and ope ...

, 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 stag ...

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

International competitions

Notes

References

External links

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Paris 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

Águeda Marqués – COE – Paris 2024
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