Ana Carvajal San Miguel

Ana Carvajal San Miguel
Personal information
BornAna Carvajal San Miguel
2006 (age 19–20)
Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain
Sport
Country Spain
SportDiving
Event
10 metre platform
Medal record
Women's diving
Representing  Spain
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2024 Belgrade10 m platform
Silver medal – second place2024 Belgrade10 m synchro
Bronze medal – third place2026 Paris10 m mixed synchro
European Diving Championships
Gold medal – first place2025 Antalya10 m synchro

Ana Carvajal San Miguel (born 2006) is a Spanish diver specialising in the 10 metre platform. She represented Spain at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and is the 2024 European champion in the women's 10 metre platform; in 2025 she added a second European title in the 10 metre synchronised platform together with Valeria Antolino.[1]

Early life

Carvajal was born in 2006 in Villanueva de la Cañada, a municipality in the western part of the Community of Madrid. Her first contact with the pool came as a young girl, initially swimming before becoming interested in diving after seeing older athletes use the springboard. Around the age of seven or eight she went through a brief period of panic in the pool, but quickly recovered and continued in the sport, eventually specialising in the 10 metre platform.[2]

Career

Junior years and senior debut

Carvajal started competing internationally as a junior in 2021. At the 2022 European Junior Aquatics Championships, held in Bucharest, she took a silver medal in the women's 10 metre platform.[3]

At the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka in July 2023, still of junior age, Carvajal unexpectedly reached the final of the women's 10 metre platform and in doing so secured an Olympic quota place for Spain in the event, the first Spanish diving berth for Paris 2024.[4]

2024: European gold and Paris Olympics

At the 2024 European Aquatics Championships, held in Belgrade in June 2024, Carvajal was crowned European champion in the women's 10 metre platform on 19 June 2024 with a score of 287.90 points.[5] Three days later she added a silver medal in the women's 10 metre synchronised platform alongside Valeria Antolino, with whom she would go on to form Spain's regular pairing on the platform.[6]

Carvajal learned that she would compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics only after the final scores from Fukuoka were confirmed; the news, which she received without expecting to qualify on her first attempt, took her by surprise and accelerated the long-term plan of her coaching team.[7] Speaking before the Games, the diver played down medal expectations, saying that her main aim was to gain experience for the Los Angeles 2028 cycle: "Con estar allí ya soy feliz" ("Just being there makes me happy"). She also described a difficult run-up to Paris combining diving training with the Spanish Selectividad-track university-entrance studies and a finger injury that kept her out for about a month.[8] In a separate interview she set the technical objective of consolidating an inward-twisting dive (tirabuzón) as the additional element she still needed in her programme.[9]

At the Paris Olympics on 5 August 2024, Carvajal qualified for the semifinal by finishing twelfth in the preliminary round with 285.60 points. In the semifinal later that day she finished fourteenth, falling short of the twelve-woman final by two places.[10]

2025–2026

At the 2025 European Diving Championships in Antalya, Turkey, Carvajal and Antolino won the gold medal in the women's 10 metre synchronised platform on 28 May 2025 with 305.82 points, defeating the defending champions Kseniia Bailo and Sofiia Lyskun of Ukraine by almost twenty points and reversing the order of the previous year's Belgrade final.[11]

In May 2026 she competed at the World Aquatics Diving World Cup Super Final, held at the Water Cube in Beijing; under the head-to-head format introduced for the event, she was eliminated in the first round of the women's 10 metre platform.[12]

References

  1. ↑ García Esteban, Marina (5 August 2024). "Quién es Ana Carvajal, la saltadora española de 17 años que logró clasificarse para la semifinal de plataforma 10 metros" [Who is Ana Carvajal, the 17-year-old Spanish diver who managed to qualify for the 10-metre platform semifinal]. Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  2. ↑ Castiñeira, Jara (11 June 2024). "Ana Carvajal, la deportista olímpica que llega a París 2024 con una discapacidad" [Ana Carvajal, the Olympic athlete arriving at Paris 2024 with a disability]. Elle España (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  3. ↑ "Plata para Ana Carvajal en el Europeo júnior de Bucarest" [Silver for Ana Carvajal at the Bucharest Junior European Championships]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 24 July 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  4. ↑ "Ana Carvajal, a la final del Mundial de plataforma y a los Juegos Olímpicos de París" [Ana Carvajal, into the World Championship platform final and to the Paris Olympic Games]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 18 July 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  5. ↑ "Ana Carvajal, oro en el Europeo de Belgrado en plataforma de diez metros" [Ana Carvajal, gold at the Belgrade European Championships in 10-metre platform]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 19 June 2024. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  6. ↑ "Ana Carvajal y Valeria Antolino, dos delfines a punto de saltar sobre París" [Ana Carvajal and Valeria Antolino, two dolphins about to leap over Paris]. Telemadrid (in Spanish). 22 July 2024. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  7. ↑ "Así se enteró Ana Carvajal de que iría a los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024" [How Ana Carvajal found out she would go to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 31 July 2024. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  8. ↑ "Ana Carvajal, sin expectativas en París 2024: "Con estar allí ya soy feliz"" [Ana Carvajal, no expectations at Paris 2024: "Just being there makes me happy"]. Eurosport (in Spanish). 3 April 2024. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  9. ↑ "Ana Carvajal: objetivo, el tirabuzón" [Ana Carvajal: objective, the twist]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 20 March 2024. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  10. ↑ "Ana Carvajal, a las semifinales de plataforma de 10 metros en París 2024" [Ana Carvajal, into the 10-metre platform semifinals at Paris 2024]. El Periódico (in Spanish). 5 August 2024. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  11. ↑ "Las españolas Valeria Antolino y Ana Carvajal, oro en la final del Europeo de saltos sincronizados de 10 metros" [Spaniards Valeria Antolino and Ana Carvajal, gold in the final of the European synchronised 10-metre diving championships]. Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish). 28 May 2025. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  12. ↑ "Ana Carvajal cae en la primera ronda de la Superfinal de la Copa del Mundo" [Ana Carvajal falls in the first round of the World Cup Super Final]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 2 May 2026. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
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