Alexandra Agiurgiuculese

2017

In 2017 season, Agiurgiuculese made her senior international debut at the 2017 Grand Prix Moscow. She was 8th in the all-around, and she qualified to all the apparatus finals, placing 5th in clubs, 6th in hoop, 7th in ball and 8th in ribbon. She competed at the 2017 Pesaro World Cup and finished 13th all-around and qualified to two apparatus finals, where she won bronze with ribbon and placed 4th with ball. On 5–7 May Agiurgiuculese competed at the 2017 Sofia World Cup, finishing 13th in the all-around. She qualified for two apparatus finals, and she won a silver medal in ball and finished 8th in ribbon. On 19–21 May, Agiurgiuculese, along with teammates Milena Baldassarri and Alessia Russo, represented the individual seniors for Italy at the 2017 European Championships. She qualified for the ball final, but she finished in last place.

Agiurgiuculese won silver in the all-around at the Italian National Championships behind Veronica Bertolini. On 7–9 July Agiurgiuculese finished just out of the medals with 4th place in the all-around at the 2017 Berlin World Challenge Cup. She qualified for three apparatus final and took a silver medal in hoop and placed 5th in ball and 4th in ribbon. On 5–7 August Agiurgiuculese finished 7th in the all-around behind Bulgaria's Katrin Taseva at the 2017 Minsk World Challenge Cup and qualified for three apparatus finals. She won bronze in ball and finished 6th in hoop and 8th in clubs. On 11–13 August, Agiurgiuculese competed at the 2017 Kazan World Challenge Cup. She was 10th in the all-around and competed in three apparatus finals. In the apparatus finals, she finished 8th in hoop, 5th in ball, and 6th in clubs.

Together with Milena Baldassarri, Agiurgiuculese represented Italy in the individual competition at the 2017 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Pesaro, where she finished 8th In the All-around behind Neviana Vladinova. She also qualified for three apparatus finals and finished 7th in ball, 5th in clubs and 4th in ribbon. Agiurgiuculese was awarded the Longines Prize for Elegance at the games; she was the first Italian gymnast to win the award.^[9]

2018

In 2018, she started her season competing at the MTM Ljubljana tournament, where she finished 4th in the all-around behind Julia Evchik. On 13–15 April Agiurgiuculese competed at the 2018 Pesaro World Cup, finishing in a disappointing 17th position. On 27–29 April Agiurgiuculese then competed at the 2018 Baku World Cup, where she finished 16th in the all-around. On 4–6 May she competed at the 2018 Guadalajara World Challenge Cup. She finished 8th in the all-around. In her two apparatus finals, she was 5th in clubs and 8th in ribbon. On 15–17 May Agiurgiuculese competed at the Holon Senior International tournament, where she won gold in the all-around with a total of 66.300 points. On 29–30 June she competed at the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain, where she won the gold all-around medal with a total of 71.150 points.

At the 2018 World Championships, Alexandra won a historic bronze medal in the ball final with a score of 19.900. Her bronze medal was the first individual medal for Italy in 27 years at the World Championships.^[10]

2019

In 2019, on June 22, she represented Romania at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus and finished on 4th place in All-around behind Katsiaryna Halkina from Belarus. She was 5th in Hoop, 6th in Ball and Clubs and 6th in Ribbon final.^[11] Agiurgiuculese represented Italy at the 2019 World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan together with Milena Baldassarri, Alessia Russo and Sofia Maffeis. Italy placed 4th in the team competition. Agiurgiuculese placed 7th in the all-around qualifications and qualified to the hoop and clubs finals. In the all-around final, she ended in 6th place and secured an Olympic spot for Italy at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She also placed 6th in the hoop final and 5th in the clubs final. During her ball exercise at the 2019 World Championships, she performed an original body difficulty element, a turning leap which was named "The Agiurguiculese" after her.^[12]

2021

In 2021, she started her season by competing at the FIG Ritam Cup in Belgrade, Serbia, where she finished 1st in the all-around. On 7–9 May she then competed at the 2021 Baku World Cup, finishing 4th in the all-around. At the 2020 Olympic Games, she finished fifteenth in the qualification round for the individual all-around and did not advance to the final.^[13]

2022-2023

In 2022, just after her birthday, it was confirmed that she left her coach Špela Dragaš from ASU Udinese and moved to Desio.^[14] In April, she competed at World Cup Tashkent, placing 7th in all-around. She took 4th place at Italian Championships and won bronze medal in ribbon final.

In 2023, Agiurgiuculese competed at World Challenge Cup Portimão and ended on 7th place in all-around. She represented Italy at the 2023 European Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, taking 12th place in all-around and 8th in clubs final. In July that year she was given a one-year due to missing three anti-doping test appointments; she claimed that she had forgotten to properly update her whereabouts for testing because she was fatigued from travel. The suspension meant that she could not participate in the 2024 Summer Olympics.^[15]

2026

She was supposed to return to gymnastics in January 2025, but decided to extend the break from training.^[16] She explained this in a video published on January 15 in 2026, where she announced her comeback to competitive sport.^[17]

In April, she competed at Italian Championships in Gold category, and won silver medal in all-around behind Margherita Fucci. This was a qualification step that allowed her to compete at Italian Championships in elite category.^[18] In June, she competed at Italian National Championships and took 4th place in all-around.^[19]