Ana Peleteiro, triple bronze jump in the world championship on the covered track | Sport
In a ski of the hand, making a small curve next to the thumb, Ana Peleteiro tattooed six letters a long time ago: Why not. And every time he extends his arms like a bird while he looks towards the pit, the Galician jumper repeats this question: why not? Competitive ability of Ana León Heart Peleteiro always ends up taking him to the same place: the podium of a great championship. In the last four cups in the world there were only one, in Belgrade, 2022. In the other three (Birmingham 2018, GlasgoW 2024 and Nanjing 2025) was bronze. And opening the fan to all international tests, there are already nine medals. His story does not only go from what has come to the pit, but rather what has rarely failed. The struggle never fails. Nor did he do in the cube of this huge Chinese city, where he defended his position in the ranking, far from the two Cubans who dominated the final, but also kept all the other rivals at bay, including the Olympic champion.
This is the merit of this woman born to compete. An athlete who, despite not having the best brands, almost always takes a medal. This Saturday I had very complicated to compete against the two Cubans. Especially after Leyanis Pérez touched 15 meters in the first jump (14.93 m) and his compatriot left over the fourteen and a half (14.57 m). The knee that came to think of ignoring this season on the covered track prevented him from copying. But there was the possibility of getting the best from herself this afternoon of March 22nd. And he did it with five jumps above 14 meters. The best, 14.29 m, was sufficient to defeat Thea Lafond, a dominica athlete who is the current Olympic champion and was the current world champion internal.
Peleteiro returns to the podium. Another time. “It is not easy, and less today. Many discomfort since the beginning of the competition, fighting all the time against the monsters. I think I even sinned as a debutant and I had to go from the fifth to make a good jump, but I wanted to fight more. I knew that the gold was far away because my knee I hurt myself, but I thought that silver could take it out.” Why not. This bronze medal, I liked it with the gold reached two weeks in the European de Apeldoorb, in NachicsI am a harvest that appreciates a lot after a few very complicated weeks. “If they told me a month ago, I would never have imagined it. I am only a season on the covered track that I thought did not exist with a gold and a bronze, winning the Olympic champion.”
The medal of Ana Peleteiro, the second who reaches her husband and new coach, the Frenchman Benjamin Compaoré, is the first for Spanish athletics in this Nanjing World Cup. This Sunday the competition is closed with the latest options, with the three Spaniards who qualified for the final of 1,500 million: Esther Guerrero, Mariano García and Adrián Ben. But also with Josué Canales, who, like two weeks ago in the European Championship, is again in the 800th final. Six athletes in a final where half of them will start with a medal. In the semifinal Álvaro de Arriba and Lorea Ibarzabal they fell, while Marta García, Leonesa, grown in Palencia, ended seventh in the final of 3,000 dominated by the Fredeweyni hair Etiope, 800m medal, 1,500mm 3000 m in recent world copies. Ana Peleteiro will return to the Nanchino bucket to collect her medal and encourage her friend Fatima Diame, who will play the final of the final jump.
