Gina Coello

Gina Lizeth Coello Touche (born 2 October 1962) is a Honduran long-distance runner. She competed in the women's marathon at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Career In 1982, Coello broke the Honduran U20 1500 m record at a meeting in Tegucigalpa, running 4:57.7 minutes.

Coello represented Honduras at the 1987 Pan American Games. She finished 9th in the marathon, running 3:07:29 hours. Later that month at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics, Coello improved to 3:01:53 in the world championship marathon, finishing 31st and setting a Honduran national record.

At the 1991 Central American Championships in Athletics in June, Coello won the bronze medal in the 3000 metres, the longest women's distance offered, in 10:59.22 minutes. Later that year, Coello finished 23rd at the 1991 World Championships marathon in another national record time of 2:59:54. At the 1994 Central American Games in El Salvador, Coello won the marathon silver medal behind Maritza Martínez of Costa Rica, running 3:11:13 hours.

In February 1999, Coello ran 2:59:37 at the Los Angeles Marathon to set a new personal best.

Personal life Coello lived with her domestic partner Juan Arnelo Henríquez Petit. In 2009, Petit died and was suspected to have been killed in response to his complaints against white-tailed deer hunting.