Diver Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix, one of the breakout stars of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, has been crowned the National Lottery Awards 2022 Athlete of the Year after a staggering 11,000 votes were cast across the competition.
Then aged just 17, Andrea wowed crowds in Birmingham this year with an incredible performance and bagged an impressive trio of medals – all while being cheered on by her dad Fred Sirieix, maître d' and matchmaker on the hit Channel 4 show First Dates.
She won two gold medals at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games - one in the Women's 10m platform and one in the Mixed Pairs Synchronised 10m platform with Noah Williams - and a silver medal in the Women's Synchronised 10m platform with Eden Cheng. She also went on to win two further gold medals at the European Championships in Rome and a bronze medal at the World Aquatic Championships in Hungary this summer.
