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Carmen Valero Omedes (4 October 1955 – 2 January 2024) was a Spanish middle-distance runner, who represented her native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There she was eliminated in the heats of the 800 and the 1500 metres. Valero was the only woman in the Spanish track and field squad for the Montreal Games.

Valero won the IAAF World Cross Country Championships of 1976 and 1977, and finished third in the World Cross Country Championships of 1975.

Valero died from complications of a stroke on 2 January 2024, at the age of 68.

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