Alexandra Agiurgiuculese

Alexandra Agiurgiuculese
Full name Alexandra Ana Maria Agiurgiuculese
Nickname(s) Alex
Born (2001-01-15) January 15, 2001
Iași, Romania
Residence Udine, Italy
Discipline Rhythmic gymnastics
Level Senior international elite
Years on national team 2015 - present
Club Associazione Sportiva Udinese
Head coach(es) Špela Dragas, Magda Pigano
World ranking 22 WC 6 WCC (2017 Season) [1]
Medal record
Representing  Italy
Rhythmic Gymnastics
World Championships
2018 SofiaBall
2018 SofiaTeam
Mediterranean Games
2018 Tarragona All-around

Alexandra Ana Maria Agiurgiuculese (born January 15, 2001 in Iași, Romania) is an individual rhythmic gymnast who currently represents Italy. She is a four-time medalist at the 2016 European Junior Championships. At the national level, she is a two-time (2017, 2018) Italian National All-around silver medalist and a three-time (2012, 2013, 2015) Italian Junior National champion, and a bronze medalist with the ball at the 2018 World Championships.

Personal life

Agiurgiuculese was born in Romania, she has a brother named Sebastian Constantin and a sister Andreea Magdalena. The family in 2010 immigrated to Italy.[2]

Career

Junior

Representing Romania, Agiurgiuculese won the national competitions in Romania and competed in numerous international events such as at the 2011 Irina Delanu Cup and 2010 Miss Valentine Cup.

In 2012, Agiurgiuculese began to represent Italy and won the national competitions. At the 2014 MTM Ljubljana, she won gold in ball and silver in hoop, clubs and ribbon. She also competed at the Italian Serie A. She has competed at the 2015 Moscow Junior Grand Prix finishing 8th in the all-around. She won the all-around gold at the 2015 MTM Cup in Ljubljana.

Agiurgiuculese competed at the 2016 Lisboa Junior World Cup taking bronze in ball, finished 8th in rope, 7th in hoop and 4th in clubs.[3] She also won silver in rope, bronze in hoop, ball at the Pesaro Junior World Cup. She also won team bronze at Sofia Junior World Cup, she took silver in ball and finished 4th in clubs.[4] At the 2016 European Junior Championships Agiurgiuculese won team bronze (with Milena Baldassarri), she qualified to all apparatus finals: taking silver in ball, clubs, bronze in rope and 4th in hoop.[5]

Senior

In 2017 Season, Agiurgiuculese made her senior international debut at the 2017 Grand Prix Moscow finishing 8th in the all-around, 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 May 5–7, Agiurgiuculese competed at the 2017 Sofia World Cup finishing 13th in the all-around, she qualified in 2 apparatus finals where she won a silver medal in ball and finished 8th in ribbon. On May 19–21, Agiurgiuculese along with teammates Milena Baldassarri and Alessia Russo represented the individual seniors for Italy at the 2017 European Championships, she qualified in the ball finals finishing in last place. Agiurgiuculese won silver in the all-around at the Italian National Championships behind Veronica Bertolini. On July 7–9, Agiurgiuculese finished just out of the medals placing 4th in the all-around at the 2017 Berlin World Challenge Cup, she qualified in 3 apparatus final taking a silver medal in hoop, placed 5th in ball and 4th in ribbon. On August 5–7, Agiurgiuculese finished 7th in the all-around behind Bulgaria's Katrin Taseva at the 2017 Minsk World Challenge Cup, she qualified in 3 apparatus finals and won bronze in ball, finished 6th in hoop and 8th in clubs. On August 11–13, Agiurgiuculese competed at the 2017 Kazan World Challenge Cup finishing 10th in the all-around, she qualified in 3 apparatus finals and finished 8th in hoop, 5th in ball, 6th in clubs.

Together with Milena Baldassarri, Agiurgiuculese represented as individual gymnasts for Italy at the 2017 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Pesaro, where she finished 8th In the All-around behind Neviana Vladinova, she also qualified in three apparatus finals and finished (7th in ball, 5th in clubs and 4th in ribbon). Agiurgiuculese was awarded with Longines Prize for Elegance at the games, becoming the first Italian gymnast to win the award.[6]

In 2018, she started her season competing at the MTM Ljubljana tournament where she finished 4th in the all-around behind Julia Evchik. On April 13–15; Agiurgiuculese competed at the 2018 Pesaro World Cup finishing in a disappointing 17th position. On April 27–29, Agiurgiuculese then competed at the 2018 Baku World Cup where she won finished 16th in the all-around. On May 4–6, she then competed at the 2018 Guadalajara World Challenge Cup finishing 8th in the all-around, she qualified in 2 apparatus finals finishing 5th in clubs and 8th in ribbon. On May 15–17, Agiurgiuculese competed at the Holon Senior International tournament where she won gold in the all-around with a total of 66.300 points. On June 29–30, she competed at the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain, where she won 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 the score of 19.900. Her bronze medal was the first individual medal for Italy in 27 years at the World Championships.[7]

Achievements

  • First Italian rhythmic gymnast to win a medal in an individual apparatus at the FIG World Cup series.

Routine music information

Year Apparatus Music title
2018 Hoop Gangsta's Paradise by 2WEI
Ball Zajdi, zajdi by Amira Medunjanin
Clubs Habibi Min Zaman, Manea-K by Balkan Beat Box, Max Pashm
Ribbon The Wall/ Another One Bites the Dust by Pink Floyd/ Queen
2017 Hoop Earthshaker/ Army of Drummers by Audiomachine
Ball Hallelujah by Susan Boyle
Clubs Pharaoh by Snavs
Ribbon Va Pensiero by Albano Carrisi (former), The Wall/ Another One Bites the Dust by Pink Floyd/ Queen
2016 Rope Hava Nagila by DJ Jacob
Hoop Black Skinhead/Personal Jesus by Kanye West/Marilyn Manson
Ball Your Love by Ennio Morricone & Dulce Pontes
Clubs Batucada / Besame Mucho (Dub Mix) by The Booty Jocks / Buddha Bar

References

  1. ↑ "FIG World standings for rhythmic gymnastics". International Federation of Gymnastics. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "intervista ad Alexandra Agiurgiuculese". ilfriuliveneziagiulia. Archived from the original on 2016-08-07. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  3. ↑ "Torneo Lisbona: argento alla fune per Alexandra". Ginnastica Ritmica Italia. 20 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Pesaro, torneo junior: pioggia di medaglie per l'Italia". Ginnastica Ritmica Italia.
  5. ↑ "Double gold for Russia on day 2 of Rhythmic Europeans". European Union of Gymnastics. 18 June 2016.
  6. ↑ "Italy's Alexandra Agiurgiuculese presented with the Longines Prize for Elegance at the 35th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships 2017 in Pesaro". Longines. Longines Watch Co. Francillon Ltd. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  7. ↑ "Italy's Agiurgiuculese inspired by unexpected World medal". Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. 13 September 2018.
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