![]() Ana Peleteiro in 2019 | |
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) |
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Country | ![]() |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Triple jump |
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Olympic finals | ![]() |
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.
Peleteiro was born in Spain to a black African father and 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]