“Here they started calling me black shit”

Ana Peleteirostill pregnant with her daughter Lúa at the time the report was recorded, commented how strange it was for her walk the halls of your school Now about to give birth. It’s been a long time since then, but the athlete specialized in triple jump seems to remember it very clearly.

The start of a successful career

In between, he has accumulated many successes, such as that gold medal in 2011 when he won the gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games held in Singapore. In addition, in 2012, he won gold in the World Youth Athletics Championships, a prestige that caused him to end up going to Guadalajara to train with the prestigious coach Juan Carlos Álvarez.

Peleteiro continued accumulating successes at an international level. In 2018, she won her first medal as a senior in a European Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Then in 2019, she outdid herself by getting the gold in the triple jump at the European Athletics Indoor Championships and setting a new record for Spain. His remarkable progress and dedication to athletics have solidified his place as one of the most outstanding athletes of her generation in Spain.

now more than 10 years after his first international achievement, visit the place where he took his first steps and some of the unpleasant facts that he had to live: “I went from living in a school where I was a ‘happy flower’ to starting to have fights, arguments… This is where they started calling me black shit. I had to fight a lot.”

Undoubtedly, some episodes that no child would like to experience and that made Ana Peleteiro’s childhood hard and difficult years for her.