Muriel Coneo

Muriel Coneo Paredes (March 15, 1987) is a Colombian Olympic athlete specializing in the middle-distance running events. She won multiple medals on the continental level, including the gold medal in the 1500 m at the 2015 Pan American Games and the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games.

Muriel 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 aged 14 when she moved to Medellín in 2002 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 metres steeplechase and the same year she placed first at the 2013 Bolivarian Games in Trujillo, Peru. In 2017, she ran her first international 5000 metres in the 2017 Mt. SAC Relays (Torrance, CA) where she set a PB of 15:41.55