Juleisy Angulo

Juleisy Angulo (born 2 January 2001) is an Ecuadorian javelin thrower and national record holder. She is the reigning World Champion, having won the title at the 2025 World Athletics Championships to become Ecuador's first female world champion.

Biography Angulo is from El Oro Province in Ecuador. She was a silver medalist in the javelin throw at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, finishing behind Greece's Elina Tzengko.

In June 2018, she broke the South American under-20 record for the javelin throw with 57.94 metres, breaking the record held by Colombian María Lucelly Murillo. She won the 2019 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships in Costa Rica with a personal best throw of 58.96 metres in July 2019.

She placed fourth overall in the javelin throw at the 2021 South American Championships, held in Ecuador in May 2021. That year, she won the gold medal at the 2021 South American Athletics U23 Championships. In December, she won the gold medal at the 2021 Junior Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia, with a throw of 58.26 metres.

On 16 April 2022, she won the Ecuador Athletics Championships with a throw of 60.22 meters in Guayaquil. The following month, she set a new national record of 60.91 meters to win the 2022 Ibero-American Championships in La Nucia, Spain. She retained her title at the 2022 South American Athletics U23 Championships in Cascavel, Brazil. She won the bronze medal in the javelin throw at the 2022 South American Games in Asunción, Paraguay, with a national record 61.10 metres.

She finished fourth in the javelin throw at the 2023 South American Championships in São Paulo, Brazil. She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, but did not advance to the final.

She won the silver medal in the javelin throw at the 2025 South American Championships in Mar del Plata, Argentina, throwing a national and championship record in round one of 62.25m, before later being overtaken by Jucilene de Lima of Brazil. In August 2025, she increased the Ecuadorean national record to 62.33 metres whilst competing in Brazil.

She won the gold medal at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, to become Ecuador’s first ever female world gold medallist. In the preliminary round she threw a national record 63.25 metres to advance to the final, before improving to 65.13 metres in the final to win the title.