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4 unusual facts about Rubén Palomeque


Rubén Palomeque

Palomeque is a member of Club Atletico FC Barcelona, being coached and trained by Enrique Pascual Oliva.

He ran in the first heat against twelve other athletes, including France's Bouabdellah Tahri and Kenya's Brimin Kipruto, who eventually won the gold medal in the final.

He finished the race in twelfth place by nineteen seconds behind Portugal's Alberto Paulo, outside his personal best time of 8:58.50.

Palomeque represented Spain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's 3000 m steeplechase, along with his compatriots Eliseo Martín and José Luis Blanco.



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