Quindío athletes win silver in Pan American Parkour Open
Harley David Bedoya Londoño and Katherine Valencia Guerrero each won Pan American All-Around silver, lifting Quindío to five medals in San Salvador.
Harley David Bedoya Londoño and Katherine Valencia Guerrero each left San Salvador with All-Around silver, and Quindío came home from the 2026 Pan American Parkour Open with five medals spread across Speed, Freestyle and the combined ranking. For a department of Colombia, it was a clean statement of depth: two athletes from the same region reached the continental podium in the event’s most complete standings.
Bedoya built his silver with a bronze in senior men’s Speed Run, where he stopped the clock in 22.100 seconds, then added sixth place in Freestyle with 19.400 points. That combination pushed him into second in All-Around, the general ranking that combines performances across parkour events. Valencia matched the pattern on the women’s side, taking bronze in Speed Run in 32.160 seconds and bronze again in Freestyle with 19.600 points before claiming All-Around silver.
The podiums in each individual discipline showed how both athletes stayed in the medal fight from start to finish. UPAG’s event recap placed Valencia on the women’s Speed podium behind Sara Banchoff and Marlene Coronel, while the Freestyle podium also included Banchoff, Bianca Da Silva and Valencia. On the men’s side, Bedoya’s bronze in Speed Run joined Kevin Gabriel Alves and Carlos Peña on that podium. The fourth Pan American Parkour Open ran July 3-4 in San Salvador, El Salvador, with 11 national delegations under the organization of the Pan American Gymnastics Union and the Salvadoran Gymnastics Federation.
Brazil’s first appearance in a Pan American Parkour Open gave the meet extra continental weight, and UPAG framed the finals in Speed and Freestyle as evidence of parkour’s growth and high level across the Americas. That context helps explain why the Quindío results mattered beyond one medal table. Parkour is now recognized by UPAG as a FIG discipline, and All-Around carries special value because it rewards athletes who can score in both specialist and all-round formats rather than rely on one event alone.
Quindío’s delegation had been announced as four athletes plus coach Gustavo López, with Héctor Fabio Murillo Obando reaching the Freestyle senior semifinals and Jacobo Carvajal Marín placing fifth in AC4 Speed Run qualifying in 24.600 seconds. López has been one of the region’s most visible promoters of the sport, and the results in El Salvador backed up that work. Bedoya and Valencia had already shown continental form in 2025, and after this meet the Quindío group was already looking ahead to the South American Parkour Championship in Brazil and the FIG Parkour World Cup in Shanghai.
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