Wilmar Andrés Paredes Zapata (born 27 April 1996) is a Colombian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team . He was provisionally suspended from the sport for four years from February 2019 to February 2023. He competed as a junior at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships in the men's junior road race and as an under-23 rider at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships in the men's under-23 road race. He won the gold medal at the 2016 Pan American Track Cycling Championships in the team pursuit.
In April 2019, Paredes returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for erythropoietin (EPO) in an out-of-competition control taken in February 2019. folded in May, due to the doping cases of Paredes and teammate Juan José Amador.
Major results
Track 2014 2nd Team pursuit, UCI Junior World Championships 2016 1st Team pursuit, Pan American Championships
Road
2014 1st Road race, Pan American Junior Road Championships 2015 5th Road race, Pan American Under-23 Championships 2017 1st Young rider classification, Circuit de la Sarthe 1st Mountains classification, Tour des Fjords 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Colombia 2nd Klasika Primavera 2018 3rd Klasika Primavera 6th Overall Volta Internacional Cova da Beira 7th La Roue Tourangelle 10th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe 1st Young rider classification 2023 2nd Overall Vuelta al Sur 8th Overall Vuelta a Formosa 2024 1st Overall Jamaica International Cycling Classic 1st Stage 1 1st Mountains classification, Tour of Hainan 1st Stage 1 Vuelta Bantrab 1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 3 Clásico RCN 2nd Overall Tour do Rio 2nd Gran Premio New York City 3rd Overall Tour of Taihu Lake 3rd Overall Tour of the Gila 1st Mountains classification 1st Stages 1 & 5 3rd Road race, Pan American Road Championships 2025 1st Stage 3 Vuelta Bantrab 1st Stages 1 & 7 Vuelta a Colombia 1st Stages 1, 3 & 8 Clásico RCN 1st Stage 2 Vuelta Bantrab 3rd Overall Vuelta al Tolima 1st Stage 4 3rd Overall Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional 2026 1st Overall Tour de Beauce 1st Points classification 1st Stage 5 1st Overall Volta Ciclistica Internacional do Estado de São Paulo 1st Points classification 1st Overall Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional 1st Points classification 1st Stage 2 1st Overall Clásica de Rionegro 1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 2 1st Circuito Miguel Sanabria 1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 4 Vuelta a Colombia 1st Stage 5 Tour of America's Dairyland 3rd Gran Premio New York City 4th Desafio das Américas de Ciclismo
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