Álex Leonardo Quiñónez Martínez (11 August 1989 – 22 October 2021) was an Ecuadorian sprinter who competed in the

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and

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. He was shot dead on October 22, 2021 at age 32. He was the second runner to be murdered that month, alongside fellow bronze medalist Agnes Tirop. He won the 100 m and 200m at the 2012 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics, with his 20.34s national record in the 200 m qualifying him for the

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. He ran a new Ecuadorian national record of 20.28 s in the heats of the

at the 2012 Olympics and qualified for the final, where he finished seventh. Quiñónez won the

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at the 2019 World Championships in the 200 metres event. He qualified to represent Ecuador at the

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in the 200m in Tokyo but was provisionally suspended for "whereabouts failures" less than a month before the games began.

Murder

Quiñónez was shot and killed on 22 October 2021, in

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. He was 32 years old.

Personal bests

*100 m: 10.09 s A NR (wind: +2.0 m/s) –

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, 25 May 2013 *200 m: 19.87 s NR (wind: -0.1 m/s) –

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, 5 July 2019 *400 m: 46.28 s NR –

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, 29 June 2019

Achievements

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Tilastopaja biography
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