Thea LaFond

Thea Noeliva LaFond (born April 5, 1994) is a Dominican-American track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump.

[3] She is a graduate of John F. Kennedy High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she later returned to be a special education teacher.

[8][9][10] She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where she served as Dominica's flag bearer, alongside fellow track and field athlete Dennick Luke.

[11] During the 2022 Commonwealth Games, she improved her result and won a silver medal in the women's triple jump event.

[13][14][15] Thereafter, she was rewarded by the government of Dominica with $400,000, appointment as a national sports ambassador, a diplomatic passport, as well as a 7,459-square-foot (693.0 m2) parcel of land in the village of Warner, Saint Paul Parish.

LaFond at the 2019 ISTAF Berlin
LaFond with her 2024 gold Olympic medal