Ana Padurariu

Anne-Marie "Ana" Padurariu (born August 1, 2002) is a Canadian artistic gymnast and the 2018 world silver medalist on beam and 2019 world cup silver all around medalist.

Ana Padurariu
Padurariu in 2019.
Personal information
Full nameAnne-Marie Padurariu
Born (2002-08-01) 1 August 2002
Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada
HometownWhitby, Ontario, Canada
Height5’2
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior International Elite
Years on national team2015–present (CAN)
ClubGemini Gymnastics
College teamUCLA Bruins (2021–24)
Head coach(es)Elena Davydova[1]
Medal record
Artistic gymnastics
Representing  Canada
World Championships
2018 DohaBalance Beam
FIG World Cup
2019 Stuttgart All Around

Early life

Ana Padurariu is of Romanian descent.[2] Born in Bracebridge, Ontario, she resides in Whitby.[3] She attended Sinclair Secondary School.[4]

Padurariu's club is Gemini Gymnastics[5] (located in Oshawa, Ontario), where she took up gymnastics at the age of four.[6] Her favorite apparatus are beam and floor.[5] Her dream is to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, just as former Gemini Gymnastics gymnast Kristina Vaculik did in London in 2012.[4]

Padurariu announced on Instagram on 27 October 2019 that she has given a verbal commitment to join the UCLA Bruins as a 2020-21 recruit on a full gymnastics scholarship.

Gymnastics career

Junior

As a junior, in 2016–2017 Padurariu won every gold (five gold medals, the all-around and all four apparatus events) at the 2016 Olympic Hopes Cup, the 2017 Elite Canada, and the 2017 Canadian Artistic Gymnastics Championships[5][7][8][9] and four golds (except on vault) at the 2016 Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships.[5][10] She also did well at two international events, the City of Jesolo Trophy (Italy) and the Gymnix Junior Cup (Montreal, Canada). As a result, she was named Gymnastics Canada's junior athlete of 2017.[4]

2018

Padurariu debuted at the senior level at the 2018 Elite Canada, winning the all-around silver.[5] She was leading after three events, but fell on vault. Later she learned that she had two fractures in her left foot.[4]

In September 2018, Padurariu was part of the Canadian team that finished in fourth place in the team competition at the 2018 senior Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championship.[11]

Padurariu was included in the Canadian team for the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Doha, Qatar, where she helped Canada to its best-ever fourth place in the team event,[12] and qualified in fifth place for the final on balance beam. In the beam final, she won silver with 14.100 points, behind Liu Tingting of China with 14.533 points and ahead of Simone Biles of the United States with 13.600 points.[12][13][14][15][16] It was only the fourth worlds medal in the history of Canadian women's artistic gymnastics.[17] Padurariu is also her country's second-ever world medalist on beam.[18]

2019

In March Padurariu competed at the Stuttgart World Cup. She finished in second place behind Simone Biles.[19] In May she competed at the Canadian National Championships. After the first day of competition Padurariu was leading but a fall off the balance beam on the second day allowed Ellie Black to take home the gold, leaving Padurariu with the silver. Additionally she won gold on uneven bars, silver on balance beam behind Brooklyn Moors, and bronze on floor exercise behind Black and Moors.[20]

In June Padurariu was named to the team to compete at the 2019 Pan American Games alongside Black, Moors, Shallon Olsen, and Victoria-Kayen Woo.[21] She later had to pull out after sustaining another fracture to her left foot.[22]

On September 4 Padurariu was named to the team to compete at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany alongside Ellie Black, Shallon Olsen, Brooklyn Moors, and Victoria Woo.[23] Due to her injury, Padruariu competed only on bars and beam in the qualification round, where she helped Canada qualify to the team final and individually qualified to the balance beam final. Canada placed seventh overall.[24] In the event finals Padurariu competed on balance beam only but fell on her triple wolf turn (Mitchell).

In October Padurariu announced on Instagram that she had verbally committed to attend UCLA on a gymnastics scholarship.[25] A month later she signed her National Letter of Intent with the Bruins, starting in the 2020–21 school year.[26]

2020

In late January it was announced that Padurariu would compete at the Stuttgart World Cup taking place in March.[27] In early February it was announced that she would also compete at the Birmingham World Cup taking place in late March.[28] Her first competition of the season was Elite Canada, where she placed first in the all-around, ahead of Brooklyn Moors.[29] The Stuttgart World Cup was later canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic in Germany[30] as was the Birmingham World Cup due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.[31]

Competitive history

Junior

Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
2015International Gymnix[32]94
City of Jesolo Trophy[33]76
2016Elite Canada[34]
International Gymnix[35]68
City of Jesolo Trophy[36]4764
Canadian Championships[37]
Pan American Championships[38]
Olympic Hopes Cup[39]
2017Elite Canada[40]
International Gymnix[41]41054
City of Jesolo Trophy[42]7546
Canadian Championships[43]
Junior Japan International[44]55
Elite Gym Massilia (Masters)
Elite Gym Massilia (Open)

Senior
Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
2018Elite Canada[45]
Canadian Championships
Pan American Championships44
World Championships[6]4
2019Elite Canada
L'International Gymnix117
Stuttgart World Cup
Canadian Championships
World Championships78
2020Elite Canada5

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  28. "Birmingham World Cup roster bursts with World stars". FIG. February 7, 2020.
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