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Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix
Spendolini-Sirieix in October 2022 being presented with the 2022 National Lottery Athlete of the Year
Personal information
NationalityBritish
French
Born (2004-09-11) 11 September 2004 (age 20)
London, England
Home townLondon[1]
Years active2018-present[2]
RelativeFred Sirieix (father)
Sport
CountryGreat Britain
SportDiving
Event10 m
Coached byAlex Rochas[2]
Medal record
Women's diving
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris 10 m synchro
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Doha Team event
Silver medal – second place 2023 Fukuoka 10 m synchro
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Budapest Team event
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Doha 10 m platform
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Doha 10 m synchro
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Rome 10 m platform
Gold medal – first place 2022 Rome 10 m synchro
Silver medal – second place 2020 Budapest 10 m mixed synchro
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Budapest 10 m platform
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Rome Team event
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Montreal 10 m platform
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Montreal Team event
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham 10 m platform
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham 10 m mixed synchro
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham 10 m synchro

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix (/ænˈdreɪə spɛndəˈliːnɪ sɪrɪ.ɛks/; born 11 September 2004) is a British-French professional diver who represents Great Britain and England internationally.

In her breakthrough year of 2022, she became a World junior, two-time European senior, two-time Commonwealth Games and two-time national senior champion across 10 metre platform and 10 metre synchronised platform events, as well as a World senior medallist in the team event.

In 2024, she won the gold medal in the team event of the 2024 World Aquatics Championships. Days later, she won a bronze medal in the 10 metre platform. A third medal, another bronze, followed in the 10 metre synchronised platform event.

At the 2024 Summer Olympics she won a bronze medal with Lois Toulson in the 10 metre synchronised event.

Early life

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Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix was born in London on 11 September 2004,[3] the daughter of French hotel host Fred Sirieix and his ex-partner Alex Spendolini, who is of Italian heritage.[4] Spendolini-Sirieix was talent scouted by Crystal Palace diving club when she was at John Stainer Community Primary School in Brockley, then completed her secondary and sixth form education at Harris Academy Bermondsey.[5]

Career

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At the British Diving Championships in 2018, Spendolini-Sirieix and her colleague from Crystal Palace Diving Club, Josie Zillig, won the women's 10m synchronised diving event, completing five dives as the only entrants.[6] The following year, partnering Emily Martin, she won Women's synchronised diving competition at the Junior European Championships in Kazan.[7]

She made her international debut in 2018 as a thirteen year old, and won her first solo international gold medal at the 2020 FINA Diving Grand Prix. Later that year Spendolini-Sirieix was recognised as the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year. She won the gold for the women's individual 10 metre platform at her first Commonwealth Games, in 2022, the first English woman to win the event since 1966. Two weeks later, she became European Champion in the same event, representing Great Britain. Sirieix went on to win a further gold at each event in the synchronised discipline; in the women's event at the European Championships with Lois Toulson, and at the 10 metre mixed synchro event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games with Noah Williams.

Spendolini-Sirieix won a solo gold at the British Diving Championships in the Women's 10m Platform competition in 2020,[8] and a few weeks later won her first international gold medal at the FINA Grand Prix in Rostock in February 2020.[9] Having been in second place during the first four rounds in Rostock, she achieved a score of 76.80 on her final dive to win with a total of 330.50, ahead of Celina Toth who scored a total of 329.35.[10][11]

Spendolini-Sirieix earned her place as the youngest member of the Team GB diving team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after some successful performances over the previous two years, including two medals at the 2021 European Championships. In Tokyo, aged only 16, Andrea went through the rounds and reached the Olympic final in the Women's 10m Platform, ultimately finishing seventh.

She was selected as the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year in 2020, and was shortlisted again in 2022.[12][13]

In May 2021, Spendolini-Sirieix and Noah Williams won a silver medal in the 10m mixed synchro event at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships.[14] She also won a bronze in individual 10m platform at the Championships.[15]

In August 2022, she won two gold medals, in the Women's 10m platform and the Mixed Pairs Synchronised 10m platform with Noah Williams,[16] and a silver medal, in the Women's Synchronised 10m platform with Eden Cheng, at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.[17]

In May 2023, she won her second 10m platform title at the British Diving Championships.[18]

In July 2023 Lois Toulson and Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix won silver at 2023 World Aquatics Championships in the Women's 10m synchro.[19]

A year later, they won bronze in the Women's 10m Synchro at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[20][21] Spendolini-Sirieix came 6th in the individual 10 metre platform at the Games.[22][23]

Personal life

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Spendolini-Sirieix is the daughter of French-born maitre d'hotel and television personality Fred Sirieix, who rose to fame in the United Kingdom through the First Dates television series. Her mother, Alex Spendolini, is of Italian heritage. Her father was employed as a roving reporter during the 2024 Summer Olympics for the BBC as a French and Paris native familiar to British television viewers, and interviewed his daughter when she won her bronze medal.

Spendolini-Sirieix is a Christian.[24] After winning bronze at the 2024 Olympics, she gave an interview in which she spoke about giving glory to God.[25]

Career highlights

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Competition [16] Event 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Ref.
International, representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games Women's 10m Platform 7th 6th
Women's 10m Synchro 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
World Aquatics Championships Women's 10m Platform 19th 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Women's 10m Synchro 2nd place, silver medalist(s)[D] 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Team 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
European Aquatics Championships Women's 10m Platform 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Women's 10m Synchro 1st place, gold medalist(s)
10m Mixed Synchro 2nd place, silver medalist(s)[C] 2nd place, silver medalist(s) [26]
FINA Diving World Cup Women's 10m Platform 4th
FINA Diving Grand Prix (Rostock) Women's 10m Platform 1st place, gold medalist(s) [8]
International junior, representing  Great Britain
Junior World Championships Women's 10m Platform 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Team 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Junior European Championships Women's 10m Synchro 1st place, gold medalist(s) [B] [7]
International, representing  England
Commonwealth Games Women's 10m Platform 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Women's 10m Synchro 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
10m Mixed Synchro 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Domestic
British Diving Championships Women's 10m Platform 4th 5th 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) [5]
Women's 10m Synchro 1st place, gold medalist(s) [A] 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) [6]
British National Diving Cup Women's 10m Platform 2nd place, silver medalist(s)

^ A. with Josie Zilling (there were no other entrants)
^ B. with Emily Martin
^ C. with Noah Williams
^ D. with Lois Toulson

References

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  1. ^ "Spendolini Siriex Andrea". Paris 2024 Olympics.
  2. ^ a b "Andrea Spendolini-Siriex". Aquatics GB.
  3. ^ "Andrea Spendolini Siriex". fina.org. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  4. ^ Colderick, Stephanie (5 August 2022). "First Dates Fred Sirieix has a famous sporting daughter". WalesOnline. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Diver Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix 'worked relentlessly' to study for A-Levels and train for Commonwealth Games". 10 August 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Dixon reclaims national 10m title". Western Morning News. Plymouth, England. 28 January 2018. p. 48.
  7. ^ a b "City divers win medals in Russia". Plymouth Evening Herald. Plymouth, England. 28 January 2018. p. 48.
  8. ^ a b "Andrea dives on to young SPOTY shortlist". britishswimming.org. 9 December 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  9. ^ "Young Sports Personality of the Year 2020: Young diver Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix wins". BBC. 11 December 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  10. ^ "FINA Diving Grand Prix 2020". fina.org. Archived from the original on 21 December 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  11. ^ "Canada's Toth takes silver in 10-metre tower at diving Grand Prix event". The Tribune. Welland, Ontario, Canada. 21 February 2020.
  12. ^ Myers, Rebecca (20 December 2020). "From high board to high heels for Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix". The Times. London.
  13. ^ "Young Sports Personality 2022: Sky Brown, Jessica Gadirova & Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix on shortlist". BBC Sport. 9 December 2022. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  14. ^ "williams and spendolini-sirieix score synchro silver". British Swimming. 10 May 2021.
  15. ^ Hope, Nick (13 May 2021). "European Diving Championships: Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix wins second medal". BBC Sport.
  16. ^ a b "Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix". British Swimming. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  17. ^ "Diver Spendolini-Sirieix was 'close to quitting'". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  18. ^ "live updates from the british diving championships 2023". British Swimming. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  19. ^ "History makers Lois and Andrea secure synchro silver". British Swimming. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  20. ^ "Spendolini-Sirieix & Toulson snatch diving bronze". BBC Sport. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  21. ^ "Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix writes own compelling story with resilient Olympics bronze". The Independent. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  22. ^ "Spendolini-Sirieix emotional after missing out on medal". BBC Sport. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  23. ^ "'I'm just happy to be alive': Spendolini-Sirieix opens up on her mental health". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  24. ^ Squires, Neil (30 July 2024). "Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix: I nearly quit after Tokyo – I had to rebuild my relationship with diving". The Telegraph. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  25. ^ John, Emma (3 August 2024). "The way, the truth and the Olympic record: how God struck gold in Paris". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  26. ^ "Williams and Spendolini-Sirieix score synchro silver". Aquatics GB.
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