Diego Palomeque

Palomeque (right) in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Diego Armando Palomeque Echavarría
Nationality	Colombia
Born	(1993-12-05) 5 December 1993 (age 30) Apartadó, Antioquia
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Sprints
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m: 10.11 (Asunción 2017) 200 m: 20.32 (Medellín 2017) 400 m: 45.25 (Medellín 2016)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Colombia Pan American Games 2019 Lima 4×400 m relay South American Championships 2015 Lima 100 m 2017 Asunción 100 m 2015 Lima 200 m 2011 Buenos Aires 4×400 m relay 2015 Lima 4×100 m relay South American Junior Championships 2011 Medellín 200 m 2011 Medellín 100 m 2011 Medellín 4×100 m relay 2011 Medellín 4×400 m relay South American Youth Championships 2010 Santiago 400 m
Updated on 11 December 2014.

Diego Armando Palomeque Echavarría (born 5 December 1993 in Apartadó, Antioquia)^[1] is a Colombian sprinter.

Career

He tied Aldemir da Silva Junior for the 200 metres title at the 2011 South American Junior Championships in Athletics.^[2]

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.^[3] He was initially suspended and later excluded from the games after testing positive for exogenous testosterone.^[4] He was banned for two years between 12.08.2012 and 11.08.2014.^[5]

He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[6]

Personal bests

• 100 m: 10.11 s (wind: +1.9 m/s) – Asunción, 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

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Colombia
2010	South American Youth Championships	Santiago, Chile	2nd	400 m	47.89
2011	South American Championships	Buenos Aires, Argentina	2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:09.67
	Pan American Junior Championships	Miramar, Florida, United States	4th	400 m	48.30
	South American Junior Championships	Medellín, Colombia	2nd	100 m	10.45 A (0.0 m/s)
			1st	200 m	20.94 A (0.0 m/s)
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	40.08 A
			2nd	4 × 400 m relay	3:08.71 A
2012	Ibero-American Championships	Barquisimeto, Venezuela	5th	400 m	46.52
	World Junior Championships	Barcelona, Spain	30th (h)	400 m	47.55
2014	Pan American Sports Festival	Ciudad de México, México	8th	100 m	10.51 A (-1.3 m/s)
			9th (h)	200 m	21.09 A (-0.6 m/s)
	South American Under-23 Championships	Montevideo, Uruguay	3rd	200 m	21.02 (+1.4 m/s)
			3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:11.95
	Central American and Caribbean Games	Xalapa, México	3rd (h)	100 m	10.45 A (-0.7 m/s)
			3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:02.52 A
2015	South American Championships	Lima, Peru	1st	100m	10.40 (-1.1 m/s)
			2nd	200m	21.15 (0.0 m/s)
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	40.80
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	41st (h)	100 m	10.45
			12th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:03.68
	Bolivarian Games	Santa Marta, Colombia	2nd	100 m	10.31
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	39.58
2018	South American Games	Cochabamba, Bolivia	7th	100 m	10.39
			–	200 m	DNF
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.97
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:04.78
	Central American and Caribbean Games	Barranquilla, Colombia	10th (h)	100 m	10.311
			6th	4 × 100 m relay	39.17
			3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:04.35
2019	World Relays	Yokohama, Japan	8th (B)	4 × 400 m relay	3:07.52
	South American Championships	Lima, Peru	3rd	100 m	10.47
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	39.94
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:04.04
	Pan American Games	Lima, Peru	21st (h)	100 m	10.65
			1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:01.41
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	4th	4 × 400 m relay	2:59.50
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	13th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:03.20

¹Did not start in the semifinals