Yenniver Alejandra Veroes
Hammer Throw | Venezuela
Introduction
In a country whose track and field story has long been anchored by the gravity-defying leaps of Yulimar Rojas and the hammer brilliance of Rosa Rodríguez, a teenager from the industrial heartland of Carabobo has been writing a chapter of her own. Yenniver Alejandra Veroes — known simply as Yenniver, or by her Instagram persona @yenni__throw — is one of the most talented young hammer throwers in the Western Hemisphere. Still only 19 years old as of 2025, she has already claimed two Venezuelan national titles, competed at the World Under-20 Championships, earned a South American under-23 silver medal, and pushed her personal best to 64.39 metres — a mark that establishes her firmly among the continental elite and points unmistakably toward the world stage.
Background and Early Life
Yenniver Veroes was born on July 24, 2006, in the state of Carabobo, Venezuela. Carabobo — anchored by the industrial city of Valencia and named for the Battle of Carabobo that sealed Venezuelan independence — has long been one of the country’s most productive incubators of athletic talent, fielding strong delegations at the national Juegos Deportivos Nacionales (JDN) and producing athletes across a range of field events. It is a region that takes pride in its sporting identity, and that pride would come to shape Veroes’s own competitive spirit in meaningful ways.
Details about her earliest years and the specific route by which she found her way to the hammer are not fully documented in the public record, as is common for young athletes from developing sports systems who only begin attracting media attention once they break onto the national scene. What is clear from the arc of her results is that she developed rapidly and under technically competent guidance. By the time she appeared in national youth competition, she was already throwing at a level that made her peers look like they were competing in a different event.
Venezuela has a meaningful tradition in the hammer throw, anchored most prominently by Rosa Rodríguez, the four-time Olympian (2012–2024) and national record holder. Growing up in that tradition — watching a Venezuelan woman compete at the highest level of the sport year after year — almost certainly provided context and inspiration for a young thrower finding her footing. Whether Veroes was directly influenced by Rodríguez or simply moved in the same athletic culture, she emerged from Carabobo’s sports programs wielding the hammer with purpose and technical sophistication well beyond her age.
Youth Career and Early Breakthrough (2022)
The first significant public markers of Yenniver Veroes’s talent appeared in 2022, when she was still just 15 years old. In June of that year, competing at the Venezuelan Under-20 National Championships held at the Polideportivo Agustín Tovar in Barinas, she won the hammer title with a throw of 50.01 metres — a solid baseline mark for a teenager in her first major national competition.
But what happened next announced her to the broader South American athletics community. At the South American Youth Games (Juegos Suramericanos de la Juventud) in Rosario, Argentina, she finished fourth in the hammer with a throw of 54.37 metres — a jump of more than four metres from her national performance just months earlier, signalling the kind of rapid technical improvement that scouts and coaches notice.
The real revelation came at the South American Under-18 Championships held in São Paulo, Brazil, in September 2022. Competing with a junior (3 kg) implement, Veroes launched the hammer to 61.99 metres, taking the silver medal behind Argentina’s Giuliana Baigorria (63.58 m) and ahead of Brazil’s Kimberly de Souza (58.68 m). The mark was vastly superior to what she had thrown coming into the competition — the Venezuelan federation noted she had arrived in Brazil with a seasonal best of around 60.31 metres — and it demonstrated her ability to produce her best under championship pressure. That breakout performance served unmistakable notice: this was not an ordinary fifteen-year-old thrower.
Rising Through the Ranks (2023)
The 2023 season brought Veroes into the full spotlight of Venezuelan youth athletics. Far more telling than any single result was the accumulation of evidence across multiple fronts. At the Copa 456 Aniversario Ciudad de Caracas — the Venezuelan national Under-18 Athletics Championship held at the track of the Academia Militar de la Guardia Nacional Bolivariana in Fuerte Tiuna, Distrito Capital — she threw 61.32 metres to win by an extraordinary margin. Her nearest competitor finished nearly 13 metres behind her at 48.89 metres, a gap that speaks to how thoroughly she had come to dominate her peer group domestically. The result also kept her in first place in the South American scholastic (escolar) ranking in the hammer, a position she had held since early in the year when she had posted 62.42 metres.
In May 2023, she competed at the South American Under-20 Championships in Bogotá, Colombia, claiming the bronze medal with a throw of 55.15 metres. The podium was headed by Colombia, with Argentina taking silver — but Veroes’s third-place finish at her first U20 continental championship, at just 16, underscored how well she was tracking against older competition in the region.
That same year, the Venezuelan federation confirmed her as the 2023 Venezuelan national champion in the hammer throw — the first of two consecutive national titles she would claim. At 17, Veroes had already won Venezuela’s open national championship, competing against athletes years her senior. Venezuelan sports media were by this point regularly referring to her as “a true emerging figure” in the hammer, a characterisation that her results continued to justify.
National Dominance and International Ambitions (2024)
The 2024 season was Veroes’s most diverse and internationally tested to that point, taking her to competitions across South America and beyond. She retained her Venezuelan national hammer title, winning the 2024 edition with a throw of 59.83 metres at the Juegos Deportivos Nacionales (JDN) Oriente 2024, held at the Centro Nacional de Atletismo Yulimar Rojas. Afterward, expressing her happiness at representing Carabobo on the national stage, she dedicated the gold medal to her family and her team — a glimpse into the personal motivations that drive her beyond the technical work of the event itself.
In April 2024, Veroes took part in the Ibero-American Championships in Cuiabá, Brazil, placing eighth with a throw of 58.03 metres. It was her first exposure to that senior-level Ibero-American platform, and while she did not medal, the experience of competing against the best of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America in an open-age setting provided valuable context for a thrower still technically under-20.
August 2024 brought perhaps the most high-profile opportunity of her young career: the World Under-20 Championships in Lima, Peru. Veroes qualified and competed, throwing 55.43 metres — a result that did not advance her to the final but placed her on the world junior stage, measuring herself against the best under-20 hammer throwers globally. Lima, a city with a proud athletics culture and a stadium full of passionate South American fans, was a formative competitive environment.
Later in 2024, Veroes competed at the South American Under-23 Championships in Bucaramanga, Colombia, where she claimed the silver medal with a throw of 59.32 metres — behind Ecuador’s Nereida Santa but ahead of Argentina’s Giuliana Baigorria. It was a South American podium she had been a part of at multiple age levels over the previous two years, and this time at the U23 level, confirming her place among the top young throwers on the continent regardless of age category.
2025: A Breakout Senior Season
The 2025 season marked Veroes’s transition from dominant youth performer to a credible presence in the senior ranks, and the results came quickly and in convincing fashion.
On March 7, 2025, competing at the Estadio Brígido Iriarte in Caracas at the first national evaluation meet, Veroes threw 62.40 metres — at the time a new personal best and a mark that put her sixth in the Pan American junior (U23) ranking for the event, securing her classification spot for the Junior Pan American Games in Asunción. The Venezuelan federation confirmed her as one of the country’s best-positioned athletes in the runup to the continental junior games, noting she was the top-ranked Venezuelan woman in the Pan American junior standings across the throws.
At the 54th South American Senior Championships in Mar del Plata, Argentina, held April 25–27 at the Estadio Justo Ernesto Román, Veroes competed against the full senior elite of the continent, finishing seventh with a throw of 61.04 metres. While it did not yield a medal, the result placed her solidly inside the top eight at a senior South American championship — a credential listed in her World Athletics profile — while competing at 18 in an open-age field that included veteran continental champions.
In June 2025, Veroes travelled to Havana, Cuba, as part of an 18-athlete Venezuelan delegation competing at the prestigious Memorial José Barrientos. One of the longest-running athletics meetings in Latin America — held annually since 1946 — the Barrientos is regarded as a demanding proving ground for Caribbean and South American talent. In the hammer throw, contested at the Estadio Panamericano, she finished second with a mark of 62.35 metres, behind Cuban champion Yaritza de la Caridad Martínez (63.37 m). The performance was a clear indicator of where she stood among the best regional throwers in active senior competition.
In August 2025, Veroes competed at the Junior Pan American Games in Asunción, Paraguay — the most prestigious multi-sport event for U23 athletes in the Americas — representing Venezuela in the hammer throw and continuing to build her international senior résumé.
Then, on October 4, 2025, came the mark that reset the conversation about where Veroes stands internationally. At a competition in Caracas, she launched the hammer to 64.39 metres — a new personal best by nearly two full metres and a throw that earned her a World Athletics score of 1,003 points. That performance pushed her into the current women’s senior world ranking at approximately position 140, but more significantly, it established her as a legitimate 64-metre thrower at age 19, with years of physical and technical development still ahead of her.
Competitive Profile and Athletic Character
Veroes competes primarily within Venezuela’s national team program, based in Caracas, which serves as the hub for the country’s top-level athletics preparation. She remains a proud representative of Carabobo state at the national level — a point of regional athletic identity — while increasingly operating within the broader senior national squad framework.
One of the most striking patterns in her competitive record is her consistency of improvement under championship conditions. Year after year, her biggest marks have come at the moments that matter most: at the 2022 South American U18 Championships, she threw significantly beyond her pre-competition best; at national championships, she has routinely beaten the field by margins that suggest performance held in reserve; and in 2025, her personal-best improvement arrived on the heels of a demanding international schedule rather than in spite of it. She is, by every indication, a competitor who elevates in pressure settings.
Her throwing progression also suggests sound technical development. Moving from 50 metres at the national U20 level to 64.39 metres with the senior implement in three competitive seasons is not the result of raw athleticism alone — it reflects technical coaching and a disciplined approach to improvement. The Venezuelan athletics federation has invested meaningfully in her development, including international travel to Cuba and across South America, treatment as a senior national team member while still technically of junior age, and inclusion in selective preparation squads heading toward continental competitions.
To place her current personal best in historical context: Venezuela’s national record in the women’s hammer belongs to Rosa Rodríguez at 73.64 metres. Rodríguez was a four-time Olympian who reached her peak in her late twenties and early thirties. At the comparable point in Rodríguez’s development, Veroes is already throwing further. That is not a comparison meant to project unrealistic expectations — it is simply the measure of how early and how impressively this thrower has already arrived.
Career Results Summary
2022
Venezuelan U20 National Champion (50.01 m) · 4th, South American Youth Games, Rosario (54.37 m) · Silver medal, South American U18 Championships, São Paulo (61.99 m with 3 kg junior implement)
2023
Venezuelan National Champion (Open) · Bronze medal, South American U20 Championships, Bogotá (55.15 m) · 1st, Venezuelan National U18 Championship, Caracas (61.32 m) · Gold, Central American and Caribbean School Games, hammer throw
2024
Venezuelan National Champion (Open) (59.83 m) · 8th, Ibero-American Championships, Cuiabá (58.03 m) · Competed at World U20 Championships, Lima (55.43 m) · Silver medal, South American U23 Championships, Bucaramanga (59.32 m)
2025
National evaluation mark: 62.40 m (March 7, Caracas) · 7th, South American Senior Championships, Mar del Plata (61.04 m) · 2nd, Memorial José Barrientos, Havana (62.35 m) · Junior Pan American Games, Asunción · Personal best: 64.39 m (October 4, Caracas)
Social Media
Veroes is active on Instagram under the handle @yenni__throw, where she shares moments from training and competition. No public sponsorships have been formally announced as of this writing, which is typical for young Venezuelan athletes early in their senior careers.
Looking Ahead
The arithmetic of Yenniver Veroes’s career trajectory is compelling. She turns 20 in July 2026, meaning she will retain U23 eligibility through 2028 — the year of the Los Angeles Olympics. She is already competing regularly against senior international athletes and producing results that belong in that company. With continued physical maturation and technical refinement, there is every reason to believe she will contend for senior South American championship medals, pursue qualification for the World Athletics Championships, and position herself as a genuine Olympic prospect for LA 2028.
Venezuela has produced world-class hammer throwers before. Rosa Rodríguez turned the event into a point of national pride across four Olympic cycles. Now, from the industrious state of Carabobo, a nineteen-year-old with a hammer in her hands and 64 metres already in her résumé is writing the next chapter of that story. Yenniver Veroes is not merely a prospect to monitor from a distance. She is already competing at the highest continental levels — and already winning.
Date of Birth: July 24, 2006 · State of Origin: Carabobo, Venezuela
Personal Best: 64.39 m (October 4, 2025, Caracas, Venezuela)
World Athletics Athlete Code: 14982738
Instagram: @yenni__throw
