On December 22 (age 30) he was about to win the Christmas Lottery Jackpot. “The Café Area lottery number [la cafetería que ha abierto ] It is 74,932 and El Gordo is 79,432,” the athlete explained in a video recorded with her husband and coach, Benjamin Compaoré (38 years old). “It’s a bitch. How could it be that we were so close to being millionaires and that we didn’t win?” he said. However, two days later, this Wednesday, December 24, he shared news that he is much more excited about than the money. “Having won the lottery three times in the same year would have been abusive, right? Our little angel in heaven has sent us the greatest, most beautiful and special gift to say goodbye to 2025. Thank you, life, for so much abundance, love and happiness,” the couple wrote, along with three images showing the ultrasound of the new baby they are expecting.
That “little angel” to which the couple of athletes – married since 2023 – refers is, as they also announced through their social networks (where she accumulates 541,000 followers and he, 36,200), . “Guys, I’m very sorry, but despite having normal growth, we don’t have a heartbeat…’. These are probably the words you never want to hear, and even less so when it seemed like everything was going well after hearing the heartbeat in week 7 and feeling how every day it was growing little by little without any kind of problem. But yes, today we have had to go through one of the most bittersweet moments of our lives, but we face it stronger and more united than ever,” he then began his writing, accompanied by a photo of a full sky. of clouds. “Now we have to go through a hard and painful process, but one that we know we will overcome and that it will make us stronger. From today we have one more little angel in heaven who takes care of us and will protect us for the rest of our lives,”
The Instagram message with the announcement of the new pregnancy was immediately filled with hundreds of I like and messages of congratulations, both from anonymous people and from friends and professional colleagues. “Congratulations. The most beautiful gift,” he wrote. The presenter Santi Millán has reacted with seven emoticons of faces with hearts in their eyes. “SISSISIIIIIIIII. I love you!!!”, commented the Olympic athlete Lucía Rodríguez Montero.
A few days before confirming that she was pregnant last July, the athlete reported her resignation from participating in the European Championship for national teams, which was held from June 26 to 29 at the Vallehermoso stadium in Madrid, “for personal reasons.” He also did not participate in the Outdoor World Championships, which were held from September 13 to 21 in Tokyo, and has made it clear that his priority now is his family. “Even though they always bury me every now and then, I am a bit like the Phoenix and I like to rise from the ashes. Even if they want to finish me off, thanks to the cushion that surrounds me I come out stronger,” he declared in July on social networks.
Peleteiro and Compaoré began their relationship in 2021, but they had known each other for a long time through the world of professional athletics to which they both belonged. Two years later, in 2023, the couple said “I do” after welcoming their first daughter together, Lúa, in December 2022, who also holds the ultrasound of her future little brother in the new post from Instagram. 14 months later, Peleteiro returned to competition. Her first medal after motherhood was achieved at the Glasgow Indoor World Championships, where she finished in third position. Last March, the triple jumper was proclaimed European champion in triple jump. Compaoré became her coach in 2024, after she made the decision to give up continuing with her trainer until then, with whom she had been working for eight years in which she managed to become continental champion, double world bronze and bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
