Ana Peleteiro, bronze in the last Olympic Games in Tokyo, could not have had a better return to the slopes after her recent maternity and won this Wednesday in the triple jump final of the Castellón meeting with a best attempt of 14.13 meters, the best Spanish brand of the year.
Record that cleared up all the doubts with which the Galician athlete faced her return to competition, after fifteen months absent from the slopes and just six after giving birth to her first daughter last December.
“If they told me this 5 months ago, when I was leaving the operating room after having a cesarean section to discover infinite love for the first time, I would NEVER BELIEVE IT. But I fought, I sacrificed and I believed in myself. In addition to that, I surrounded myself with the best team and together we have achieved it. I’M FUCKING BACK! IF YOU CAN!!! AND THIS JUST HAS JUST BEGUN. MAMASITA IS BACK”, he wrote in an emotional message on his social networks after the test.
A long absence from the jumping pits that did not seem to affect the pupil of Cuban Iván Pedroso, who in his first attempt on the Gaetà Huguet track in Castellón went up to 13.68 meters, the second best Spanish mark of the course.
But Peleteiro, who will be part of the Spanish team that will play next week in the European Team Championship to be held in Poland, was not willing to settle and on her second attempt she touched fourteen meters after jumping 13.97.
A barrier that the Galician, who has a personal best of 14.87 metres, overcame in her sixth and last attempt, in which she reached 14.13 metres, the fourth best European mark of the year.
A jump that earned him the congratulations of his coach Iván Pedroso, who also directs the universal record holder, the Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas, who did not hesitate to go down to the track to hug his pupil, as well as his partner, the French triple jumper Benjamin Compaoré .
A mark that Peleteiro, 27, will try to beat next week in the Polish town of Chorzow, the next appointment for the Galician jumper, who also has in mind in her plans the meeting to be held next July in Madrid .
