Palomeque is a member of Club Atletico FC Barcelona, being coached and trained by Enrique Pascual Oliva.
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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.
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He finished the race in twelfth place by nineteen seconds behind Portugal's Alberto Paulo, outside his personal best time of 8:58.50.
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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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