Ana Đerek (born 4 September 1998) is a Croatian

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, representing her nation in international competitions. She participated at the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow, and eventually qualified for

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through the test event, held four months earlier in

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Gymnastics career

At the 2016 Olympics in

, Đerek attained a score of 11.433 on the

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and a 13.200 on the floor exercises, but on vault she mistimed her steps and ran over the vaulting table, which resulted in an empty score and her withdrawal from the starting list on the

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. Consequently, Đerek did not rank in the qualification phase of the individual all-around competition. At the Doha World Cup on 25 March 2017, Đerek attained a score of 12.833 on the balance beam and a 12.900 in the floor exercise finals, winning bronze for the latter. At the World Cup Series in

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on 18 March 2018, Đerek scored 13.533 points on the floor exercise final to win gold. In 2019, Đerek qualified for the

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via the

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held in

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. In the qualification phase held in

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on 25 July 2021 (postponed from 2020 because of the

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), she attained a score of 11.633 on balance beam and a 12.433 in the floor exercise.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Derek, Ana 1998 births Living people Croatian female artistic gymnasts Sportspeople from Split, Croatia Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Croatia Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Croatia Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Croatian sportswomen