Patricia Mamona points to recovery to return to top level after Olympics

The Portuguese Patricia Mamona, Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medalist in the triple jump, noted this Friday in a statement that her knee has fully recovered to compete again after Paris 2024.

The athlete’s consultant issued a statement explaining the injuries that kept the athlete out of Paris 2024, stressing that “having achieved her dream of participating in the Olympic Games and improving on the result achieved in Tokyo, the athlete is now focused on determining the next steps in treating the knee injury with the goal of returning to 100% training to be able to compete at the highest level.”

At the Tokyo 2020 Games in 2021, Mammona won the silver medal, losing to Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas, who is also absent from the French capital due to injury.

“In March 2023, athlete Patricia Mamona was injured during the European Indoor Athletics competition in Istanbul, where she still won a bronze medal,” the statement begins with details.

Then the 35-year-old Sporting athlete admitted that she defended her European athletics title in Istanbul on March 4, 2023, a day after her injury in qualifying.

That day, he won a bronze medal in the third major competition final he had competed in due to injury, such as the 2022 Eugene Outdoor World Championships in the United States and then the 2022 Munich European Championships.

Since then, Mamona missed the World Championships in Budapest 2023, later admitting in an interview with Lusa that he felt better than in the period before Tokyo 2020.

“Although I think I am quite strong mentally, there is always the question of whether we can come back and get back to our best form. Right now I’m better than I was at this time two years ago.” even compared to the year of the Games, I am better,” said Luse on November 14, 2023, Mamona, who was also absent from the Roma2024 European Championships last June.

Now, more than eight months later, the fears he also expressed have come true, and his absence from the Portuguese Championships in Coimbra at the weekend has confirmed the absence of Paris 2024.

“It’s also a kind of ‘hunger’ that I had, the desire to train and not finish the training completely, and the feeling that I gave it all. These mental ups and downs helped me get up because I was at the bottom. Now I’m happy, of course, but I don’t want to launch too many rockets because the rockets have to be launched on the right day, which I hope will be at the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024,” the national record holder said in a program on the sidelines of the Web Summit (January 15 in Tokyo, 2021).

According to a statement today from Sporting’s athlete press office, Mamona has been “struggling with a chronic injury that, despite all the treatment and effort the athlete has undergone, has since limited her training and performances, preventing him from training at 100 pounds.” % or compete.”

And “recently, a new knee injury has worsened his situation, making it impossible for him to participate in the competitions required for Olympic qualification.”

“Athlete Patricia Mamona remains determined and confident in her recovery, hoping to bring joy to Portuguese athletics and its fans again,” reads the aforementioned statement, in which the jumper wishes her “greatest success” to Portugal’s mission at the 2024 Games in Paris.