AGIURGIUCULESE Alexandra

Italy

Rhythmic Gymnastics

Date of Birth: 15 Jan 2001

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.68/5'6''

Place of birth: IASI

Birth Country:

Romania

Place of residence : UDINE

Residence Country:

Italy

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Rhythmic Gymnastics	Individual All-Around

Schedule

Change

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre	Individual All-Around Qualification - Rotation 1	Finished
Followed By	Ariake Gymnastics Centre	Individual All-Around Qualification - Rotation 2	Finished
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre	Individual All-Around Qualification - Rotation 3	Finished
Followed By	Ariake Gymnastics Centre	Individual All-Around Qualification - Rotation 4	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

World Championships

Year	Location	Indv. AA	Ball	Clubs	Hoop	Ribbon	Team AA
2019	Baku, AZE	6	9	5	6	36	4
2018	Sofia, BUL	9	3	10	14	4	3
2017	Pesaro, ITA	8	7	5	17	4	-

European Games

Year	Location	Indv. AA	Ball	Clubs	Hoop	Ribbon
2019	Minsk, BLR	4	6	6	5	6

European Championships

Year	Location	Indv. AA	Ball	Clubs	Hoop	Ribbon	Team AA
2021	Varna, BUL	27	41	17	36	9	6
2019	Baku, AZE	-	15	12	9	21	4
2018	Guadalajara, ESP	8	-	-	-	-	-
2017	Budapest, HUN	-	8	20	11	13	5

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017

Year	Indv. AA	Ball	Clubs	Hoop	Ribbon	Group AA	Gr-5B	Gr-3H/2C
2021	1 x 4th	1 x 1st	1 x 4th	1 x 7th	1 x 8th	-	-	-
2019	2 x 10th	2 x 16th	1 x 2nd	1 x 7th	1 x 7th	1 x 6th	1 x 9th	1 x 7th
2018	1 x 16th	1 x 14th	1 x 9th	1 x 12th	1 x 9th	-	-	-
2017	2 x 13th	1 x 2nd	1 x 27th	1 x 14th	1 x 3rd	-	-	-

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2021	Women's Ball	Baku, AZE	26.350
2	2019	Women's Clubs	Pesaro, ITA	20.950
2	2017	Women's Ball	Sofia, BUL	17.650
3	2017	Women's Ribbon	Pesaro, ITA	16.800
4	2021	Individual All-Around	Baku, AZE	97.300
4	2021	Women's Clubs	Baku, AZE	25.200
4	2017	Women's Ball	Pesaro, ITA	17.500
6	2019	Group All-Around	Baku, AZE	45.350
7	2021	Women's Clubs	Pesaro, ITA	24.150
7	2021	Women's Hoop	Baku, AZE	22.500
7	2019	Women's Hoop	Sofia, BUL	18.350
7	2019	Women's Ribbon	Sofia, BUL	15.800
7	2019	Group - 3x Hoop + 2x Clubs	Baku, AZE	23.450

Legend
Indv. - Individual, Gr - Group, AA - All-Around, B - Ball, H - Hoop, C - Clubs, Ri - Ribbon, Ro - Rope, 5B - 5x Ball, 3H/2C - 3x Hoop + 2x Clubs, 3H/4C - 3x Hoop + 4x Clubs

Nickname:

Ale, Agiurgiu, Alex (Il Messaggero Veneto, 26 Sep 2018; Twitter profile, 23 Mar 2020)

Music:

Hoop: Fur Elise (Beethoven Cover) by Hidden Citizens

Ball: Rinascita performed by G. Loprieno Ensemble Symphony Orchestra

Club: Tokyo Drift (Fast & Furious) by Teriyaki Boyz

Ribbon: You're the one that I want performed by Alex&Sierra/O. Newton John

Hobbies:

Listening to music, playing football. (Il Messaggero Veneto, 26 Sep 2018)

Occupation:

Armed Forces Athlete, Student

Education:

International Relations, Political Science

Languages spoken:

English, Italian, Romanian

Club name:

Associazione Sportiva Udinese [ITA] / CS Aeronautica Militare [ITA]

Coach:

Emanuela Maccarani [national], ITA; Spela Dragas [club], ITA; Magda Pigano [club]

Debut:

2017 for Italy (Il Messaggero Veneto, 26 Sep 2018)

Injuries:

In 2018 she sustained a knee injury that interrupted her training. (gymnastics.sport, 13 Sep 2018)

National team:

2017 (Il Messaggero Veneto, 26 Sep 2018)

Start:

She took up the sport at age six. (huffingtonpost.it, 24 Jul 2017)

Reason:

"When I was six years old, I went to a doctor for a problem with my spine and I was encouraged to practise a sport to correct it. My mother enrolled me in a rhythmic gymnastics course, and from the first day I fell in love with the discipline." (huffingtonpost.it, 24 Jul 2017)

Ambition:

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (ilfaroonline.it, 30 Mar 2020)

Training:

She trains up to eight hours a day, six days a week. (gymnastics.sport, 08 Dec 2020; rivistaundici.com, 09 Jan 2021)

Memorable:

Winning bronze in the team all-around competition at the 2018 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. (gymnastics.sport, 13 Sep 2018)

Influence:

Coach Spela Dragas. (Il Messaggero Veneto, 26 Sep 2018)

Philosophy:

"Never give up." (Facebook profile, 27 Aug 2019)

Award:

She was named Il Campione dei Ragazzi [The Champion of the Boys] at the Italian Sportrait Awards for 2019. The award is given to the best Italian athlete of the year as voted for by children under the age of 16. (ilfriuli.it, 06 Mar 2020)

In 2019 she received the Danieli Silver Star award from Associazione Sportiva Udinese in Italy for her contribution to rhythmic gymnastics during the year. (ilfriuli.it, 14 Dec 2019)

She was presented with the Prize for Elegance at the 2017 World Championships in Pesaro, Italy. She was the first individual Italian rhythmic gymnast to receive the award. (fig-gymnastics.com, 02 Sep 2017)

General Interest

General
FROM ROMANIA TO ITALY
She was involved in the Romanian national rhythmic gymnastics programme until age 10. Her family had moved to Italy while she remained in Romania with her grandparents, but she eventually also relocated to Italy and gained Italian citizenship in 2015. "My father moved to Italy when I was only three and my mother and my brothers went to Treviso, while I stayed with my grandparents in Romania. I did not know whether to stay with the Romanian national team or pack my bags. In the end, the desire to re-embrace my family was stronger than anything, so I came [to Italy]." (huffingtonpost.it, 24 Jul 2017; gazzetta.it, 07 May 2017)

NAMED ELEMENT
In early 2020 'The Agiurgiuculese', shortened to 'The Ag', was added to the Code of Points for rhythmic gymnastics by the International Gymnastics Federation [FIG]. The element, first performed by her at the 2019 World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, involves a turning split leap with ring of the back leg and take off and landing on the same leg [jete en tournant]. (gymnastics.sport, 06 Feb 2020)

INDIVIDUALIST
She says she prefers to compete in individual events rather than as a member of a team because she likes to correct her mistakes. "It happens that a competition can be lost because maybe I'm not focused. But I also had a peculiar capacity of motivating myself, to always ask me for something else. It's an almost furious reaction. I hate to train for so long and not being able to be the best, That's why I always want to depend on myself when I'm competing. And if I do a mistake, then I go home and train the triple." (revistaundici.com, 09 Jan 2021)

Milestones

In 2019 she became the first Italian gymnast to win the World Challenge Cup Series. (gymnastics.sport, 08 Dec 2020)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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