Leyanis Pérez

Leyanis Pérez Hernández (born 10 January 2002) is a Cuban athlete who has won medals at the World Athletics Championships and World Athletics Indoor Championships in the triple jump.

Early life
From Pinar del Río, she has a twin sister, Lidianis, who is a handball player. Leyanis joined a sports school at the age of ten years-old and trained in both the high jump and triple jump. In 2018, she focused more on the triple jump and jumped over 14 metres for the first time by leaping 14.13m in her first official competition of 2019.

Career
In 2019, she won a silver medal at the Pan American U20 Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica, in her first international event.

Her jump of 14.15m on 21 March 2020 was the fifteenth longest jump in the world that year, and the world leading distance by a junior. She made the qualifying mark for the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in May 2021 by jumping 14.46m (wind assisted) and then 14.32m. Unfortunately, a late injury meant she traveled to Tokyo but could not compete. She did however, win gold at the Athletics at the 2021 Junior Pan American Games triple jump in Cali in late 2021.

She finished fourth at the 2022 World Athletics Championships and improved her personal best by 12cm with her second-round 14.70m.

She earned a silver medal at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador in July 2023, with a personal best of 14.98m. In Rabat she achieved her first victory at a Diamond League meeting, leaping 14.84m. She won the bronze medal at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, with a jump of 14.96m. She won the gold medal at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile in November 2023.

She won silver at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow with a distance of 14.90m.

In May 2024, she won the 2024 Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon with a distance of 14.73 metres. In June 2024, she won the 2024 Diamond League event in Stockholm. On 12 July 2024, she jumped 14.96 metres to win at the 2024 Herculis Diamond League event in Monaco.