Leticia Oro Melo

Letícia Oro Melo (born 5 October 1997 in Joinville) is a Brazilian athlete who competes in track and field. Melo won the bronze medal in the long jump at the 2022 World Athletics Championships. Prior to this, Melo won the 2021 South American Championships in long jump and the title at the Brazilian national championships in 2022.

Career In 2012, after competing primarily in sprint events on the track, such as 100 m and 200 m, she entered the list of jumpers at the Santa Catarina state championships, where she eventually won the competition and set a new championship record of 5.59 metres.

Melo won the long jump at the 2021 South American Championships in Athletics with a new personal best jump of 6.63 metres. In the final, she won the bronze medal with a jump of 6.89 metres, just one centimetre further than the fourth placed Burks from the United States. Melo set the mark with her first attempt and attempted 7 metres in the following ones, burning all the remaining attempts and approaching 7 metres in a few of those invalid jumps. Nonetheless, she surpassed the best jump of her career by 25 centimetres to obtain the bronze. It was the first medal of a Brazilian in the history of this event at World Championships.

She qualified seventh at the 2023 World Athletics Championships long jump in Budapest and finished twelve in the final.

Personal bests Long Jump: 6.89 (wind: +1.1 m/s) – Eugene, 24 July 2022

All information from World Athletics profile.