Ana Peleteirotriple jump bronze medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, declared this Friday that if in the next two competitions, the rally of Madrid and the Spanish Championship, he is not in a brand that he considers the final World Cup, he will be the first to stop the trip to Budapest (Hungary) in August.
The Galician athlete, European indoor champion in 2019, will face two tough competitions in the next ten days to try to find a direct ticket to the World Cup in Budapest. So far this season, it recognizes 14.13 in Castellón and the minimum RFEA is 14.25 and the minimum World Athletics is 14.52.
“I’m game for the game. I’ve been training for four months and I don’t know what can happen, all or nothing. I’ll let the competitions go and see what each jump brings,” said Peleteiro, at the presentation of the Madrid rally at the Vallehermoso stadium.
“I am focused on the rally in Madrid and the Spanish Championship. They are the two competitions that, as soon as I finish, I will enter the 36, but if I am not in a brand that I consider can give me the opportunity to enter the final of the World Championship, I will be the first to say that I will not go,” said the Galician athlete, who, at the age of 27, has fulfilled the “dream of becoming a mother”.
“I don’t know if I am an example but I try. I think it is very important to explain what is possible at a high level,” he said.
Peleteiro, trained by Cuban Iván Pedroso in Guadalajara, shares a working group with Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas, current world champion and triple jump gold medalist at the Tokyo Games.
“Our relationship is better than ever. Training with Yulimar is wonderful. I adore training with her because she is pure fun, motivation and a person who goes for her when she wants something. We make a good tandem. I have things that she has for improve and he has some that I have to copy,” he said.
“We raised each other. At the Tokyo Games it was seen that there is a mutual goal and it continues to be the same energy. Iván Pedroso is pleased to train us together. He always brings us together at the same time so that we can motivate the our own and let’s do it in the best way. This is a gift and an opportunity. I worked hard not to be affected and to grow. In Spain what I need is a competitor who wakes me up. “, he commented.
Peleteiro has few competitions this year. Her reappearance after becoming a mother in December 2022 was on June 14, at the VII José Antonio Cansino Memorial in Castellón, where she won with a jump of 14.13 meters. Ten days later, at the European nations in Silesia (Poland), he finished seventh with a score of 13.67.
The last competition was on July 12, at the Bilbao Meeting, which he won in 12.89.
“I haven’t been training for a long time. I’ve been preparing for four months and I’m loading. I want to come back with fourteen meters and I’ve worked hard for it. In Silesia, on a track I don’t like, the year of the Games is I didn’t jump too much either, and in Bilbao, I felt good but it rained all the time. I’m in good shape but I need time to compete better”, he confessed.
At the rally in Madrid, the Galician athlete will be supported on the stand by the daughters of his partner, the Frenchman. Benjamin Campaore.
“My stepdaughters are there, when they met me I was pregnant and they didn’t know I was an athlete. I will continue to be the ‘belle mère’ (stepmother in French). I hope my son is gone,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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