Ana Peleteiro
![]() Ana Peleteiro in 2019 | |
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Full name | Ana Peleteiro Brión |
Nationality | Spanish |
Born | Ribeira, A Coruña, Spain | 2 December 1995
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Weight | 52 kg (115 lb) |
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Country | ![]() |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Triple jump |
Achievements and titles | |
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Medal record |
Ana Peleteiro Brión (born 2 December 1995 in Ribeira, A Coruña, Spain) is a Spanish triple jumper and the current national record holder. She won the gold medal in the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships[1] and at the 2024 European Championships. She had previously won bronze medals at the 2018 World Indoor Championships and 2018 European Championships. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the bronze medal with a national record of 14.87 m.[2]
She received the award for Best Young Athlete from the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation in 2011.
Personal life
[edit]Peleteiro was born in the province of La Coruña, Spain, to a black African father and white Spanish mother, and adopted by a Spanish family as an only child. She is married to the French triple jumper Benjamin Compaoré, and had a daughter with him in December 2022.[3]
International competitions
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "'Kangaroo girl' Peleteiro bounds out to European indoor triple jump title". European Athletics. 3 March 2019.
- ^ "Women's Triple Jump Final | Tokyo Olympics 2020". Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- ^ "Ana Peleteiro: "En España hay clasismo más que racismo. Y yo como española me incluyo"". Glamour España. 21 November 2022.
External links
[edit]- Ana Peleteiro Archived 13 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine at RFEA
- Ana Peleteiro at World Athletics
- Ana Peleteiro at Olympics.com
- Ana Peleteiro at Olympedia
- Ana Peleteiro at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish)
- 1995 births
- Living people
- People from O Barbanza
- Sportspeople from the Province of A Coruña
- Spanish female triple jumpers
- Spanish female long jumpers
- Spanish adoptees
- Spanish Athletics Championships winners
- Castelao Medal recipients
- European Athletics Indoor Championships winners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Spain
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic athletes for Spain
- Spanish people of African descent
- European Games competitors for Spain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Spanish athletics biography stubs