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Full name | Muriel Coneo Paredes | ||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Colombian | ||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Isla Fuerte, Bolívar, Colombia |
March 15, 1987 ||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Colombia | ||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Women's athletics | ||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Middle-distance running | ||||||||||||||||||
Now coaching | Libardo Hoyos | ||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 1 January 2015. |
Muriel Coneo Paredes (born 15 March 1987) is a Colombian athlete specializing in the middle-distance running events. She won multiple medals on the continental level. She was the gold medallist in the 1500 m at the 2015 Pan American Games and the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games.
Coneo was born on Isla Fuerte, a Caribbean island belonging to the Bolívar Department, Colombia on March 15, 1987 as the oldest of four sisters between Carlos Coneo and Alicia Paredes. She began her athletic career at age of 14 when she moved to Medellin in 2001 for training and competing in the Heptathlon. Later, under guidance of Libardo Hoyos, her current coach, she began to run middle distance events including 800 m and 1500 m in which she set several national records and competed at continental and world level as a junior athlete. In 2013, she began to train for 3000 m steeplechase and the same year she placed first at the 2013 Bolivarian Games in Trujillo, Peru].