Ana Peleteiro
Personal information | |
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Full name | Ana Peleteiro Brión |
Nationality | Spanish |
Born | Ribeira (A Coruña), Galicia, Spain | 2 December 1995
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Weight | 52 kg (115 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | Spain |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Triple jump |
Achievements and titles | |
Olympic finals | with 14.87 m (48 ft 9+1⁄4 in) NR |
Personal bests | |
Ana Peleteiro Brión (born 2 December 1995 in Ribeira, Galicia, 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] 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 Spain to a black African father and white Galician 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
- Spanish athletics biography stubs