Álex Quiñónez
Ecuadorian sprinter (1989–2021) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Álex Leonardo Quiñónez Martínez (11 August 1989 – 22 October 2021) was an Ecuadorian sprinter who competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres.[1][2] Shot to death in October 2021, he was the second runner to be murdered that month, alongside fellow bronze medalist Agnes Tirop.
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Full name | Alex Leonardo Quiñónez Martínez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1989-08-11)11 August 1989 Esmeraldas, Esmeraldas, Ecuador | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 22 October 2021(2021-10-22) (aged 32) Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Ecuador | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 100 m 10.09 (+2.0 m/s) (Medellín 2013) 200 m 19.87 (−0.1 m/s) (Lausanne 2019) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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 2012 Summer Olympics.
He ran a new Ecuadorian national record of 20.28 s in the heats of the 200 metres at the 2012 Olympics and qualified for the final, where he finished seventh.[2]
Quiñónez won the bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships in the 200 metres event.
He qualified to represent Ecuador at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the 200m in Tokyo but was provisionally suspended for "whereabouts failures" less than a month before the games began.[3][4]