ATHLETES from Ecuador

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ecuadorean Athletes of all time. This list of famous Ecuadorean Athletes is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Jefferson Pérez (1974 - )

With an HPI of 38.58, Jefferson Pérez is the most famous Ecuadorean Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.

Jefferson Leonardo Pérez Quezada (born 1 July 1974) is an Ecuadorian retired race walker. He specialised in the 20 km event, in which he won the first two medals his country achieved in the Olympic Games.

2. Álex Quiñónez (1989 - 2021)

With an HPI of 37.89, Álex Quiñónez is the 2nd most famous Ecuadorean Athlete.  His biography has been translated into 20 different languages.

Álex Leonardo Quiñónez Martínez (11 August 1989 – 22 October 2021) was an Ecuadorian sprinter who competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres. Shot to death in October 2021, he was the second runner to be murdered that month, alongside fellow bronze medalist Agnes Tirop. 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. 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.