Diego Palomeque

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

Diego Palomeque

Palomeque (right) in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Diego Armando Palomeque Echavarría
Nationality	Colombia
Born	(1993-12-05) 5 December 1993 (age 31) 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 8 July 2024

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Palomeque and the second or maternal family name is Echavarría.

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