Career
In 2008, he set his personal best time of 8:20.07 by finishing third at the European Athletics Premium Meeting in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. 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. He finished the race in twelfth place by nineteen seconds behind Portugal"s Alberto Paulo, outside his personal best time of 8:58.50.
Palomeque, however, failed to advance into the final, as he placed thirty-sixth overall and was ranked farther below four mandatory slots for the next round.