Ana Padurariu

Anne-Marie "Ana" Padurariu (; born August 1, 2002) is a Canadian artistic gymnast and the 2018 World Championships silver medalist on balance beam.

Early and personal life Ana Padurariu is of Romanian descent. Born in Bracebridge, Ontario, she was raised in Whitby. She attended Sinclair Secondary School.

Gymnastics career 2016–17 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 and four golds (except on vault) at the 2016 Pan American Artistic Gymnastics Championships. 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.

2018 Padurariu debuted at the senior level at the 2018 Elite Canada, winning the all-around silver.

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, 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. It was only the fourth worlds medal in the history of Canadian women's artistic gymnastics. Padurariu is also her country's second-ever world medalist on beam.

2019 In March, Padurariu competed at the Stuttgart World Cup. She finished in second place behind Simone Biles. 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 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.

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. She later had to pull out after sustaining another fracture to her left foot.

On September 4, Padurariu was named to the team to compete at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany alongside Black, Olsen, Moors, and Woo. 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. In the event finals, Padurariu competed on balance beam only but fell on her triple wolf turn.

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

2020 In late January, it was announced that Padurariu would compete at the Stuttgart World Cup taking place in March. In early February, it was announced that she would also compete at the Birmingham World Cup taking place in late March. Her first competition of the season was Elite Canada, where she placed first in the all-around, ahead of Brooklyn Moors. The Stuttgart World Cup was later canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany as was the Birmingham World Cup due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.

Collegiate gymnastics career Regular season ranking Season All-around Vault Uneven bars Balance beam Floor exercise 2022 N/A N/A 367th 65th N/A 2023 N/A N/A 49th 178th N/A 2025 N/A N/A 187th 75th N/A2026 N/A N/A 15th 61st N/A

Competitive history

+Competitive history of Ana Padurariu at the senior levelYearEvent 2018 Elite Canada Canadian Championships Pan American Championships 4 4 World Championships 4 2019 Elite Canada L'International Gymnix 11 7 Stuttgart World Cup Canadian Championships World Championships 7 8 2020 Elite Canada 5

+Competitive history of Ondine Achampong at the NCAA levelYearEvent 2022 PAC-12 Championships 4 2023 PAC-12 Championships NCAA Championships 5 2025 Big 12 Championships NCAA Championships 2026 Big 12 Championships