Alessia Maurelli

2016 Olympic Cycle

In January 2014 she was recognized by Emanuela Maccarani, who invited her to be part of the National Rhythmic Gymnastics team of Italy.^[4] She then moved to Desio and made her international debut at the 2014 European Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, where she and her team took silver medal in Group All-around competition. They also won bronze medal in Group All-around and 3 + 2 Final at the 2014 World Cup Sofia. On September 21–28, she competed at the 2014 World Championships, her first one, which took place in İzmir, Turkey. Her team took silver medal in Group All-around, less than 0.2 point away from gold, was won by Bulgaria. In finals, they placed 5th with 10 Clubs and 4th with 3 Balls + 2 Ribbons.

In 2015, she and her team mates took gold in 5 Ribbons final at the 2015 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.^[5]

She and her team mates, Martina Centofanti, Sofia Lodi, Marta Pagnini and Camilla Patriarca placed 4th in Group All-around at the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[6] In September 2016, with the retirement of Marta Pagnini, Maurelli became the captain of the Italian National Rhythmic Gymnastics Team.^[7]

2020 Olympic cycle

At the 2017 World Championships in Pesaro, Italy she became World champion in 5 Hoops, missing the podium with the Italian group in the Group All-around competition, finishing in 4th place, just 0.025 points behind Japan.^[8]

Together with Anna Basta, Martina Centofanti, Letizia Cicconcelli, Agnese Duranti and Martina Santandrea she participated at the 2018 European Championships in Guadalajara, Spain, where they won a gold medal in 5 Hoops and two silver medals in the Group All-around and in 3 Balls + 2 Ropes final. Another notable performance followed at the 2018 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, with the title won in the mixed exercise with Balls and Ropes, in addition to the second place in the Group All-around, and finally the third place in 5 Hoops final. With placing in top 3 in Group All-around, they earned a spot for Italian team at the 2020 Olympic Games.

In 2019, they won bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan in 3 Hoops + 4 Clubs final. They finished 5th in Group All-around and 6th in 5 Balls final.

In 2021, the first official post-pandemic competition was World Cup Baku, about 18 months after the last competition, where they won three silver medals (Group All-around, 5 Balls, 3 Hoops + 4 Clubs). Subsequently, at the World Cup in Pesaro, they won 2 gold medals in both apparatus finals. In particular, the score obtained in the 5 Balls final, 46.950, is the highest score ever recorded in the history of rhythmic gymnastics up to that moment.^[9] At the European Championships in Varna, Bulgaria, she and her teammates won silver in the Group All-around behind the Russian team, earning the title of European vice-champion again. They also won bronze medal in 3 Hoops + 4 Clubs final.^[10][11] She took part in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan that year, together with her teammates Martina Centofanti, Agnese Duranti, Martina Santandrea and Daniela Mogurean. They won a bronze medal, in Women's rhythmic Group All-around.^[12]

2024 Olympic cycle

She won a bronze medal, in Women's rhythmic group all-around, at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.^[13] She is one of four Italian rhythmic gymnasts to participate at three editions of Olympic Games.

On December 17, she announced on her Instagram profile that she retires from competitive sport at the age of 28.^[14]