Alexandra Agiurgiuculese
Alexandra Agiurgiuculese 
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| Surname: | Alexandra Ana Maria Agiurgiuculese | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Rhythmic sports gymnastics | |||||||||||||||
| Society: | AS Udinese | |||||||||||||||
| Trainer: | Spela Dragas | |||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | January 15, 2001 | |||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Iași , Romania | |||||||||||||||
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Alexandra Ana Maria Agiurgiuculese (born January 15, 2001 in Iași , Romania ) is an Italian gymnast of Romanian descent who is established in rhythmic gymnastics .
life and career
Beginnings in Romania
Alexandra Agiurgiuculese was born on January 15, 2001 in the eastern Romanian city of Iași, not far from the Moldovan border , where she spent a large part of her childhood at the side of her parents and a younger brother and sister, and at the age of six at club level began with rhythmic gymnastics. She was trained at the local club from Iași by Constantin Radu and his assistants Catalina Radu and Oana Cozma. In 2009 she was appointed to a debut group by Irina Deleanu, President of the Romanian Association for Rhythmic Gymnastics, which from then on represented her home country in international competitions at junior level. In her actual homeland Romania, she won various national championships and competitions and took part in various competitions, such as the Miss Valentine Cup 2010 in Tartu , Estonia , or the Irina Deleanu Cup 2010 . In the latter tournament, in which she also took part the following year, she met the Slovenian trainer and judge Spela Dragas , who became her trainer from then on and kept this position even after the family moved to Italy. In 2010 she won the overall ranking at the national championships as well as the Romanian Cup. In her debut year 2009 she won one gold and two silver medals at the national championships. In the overall ranking, this was also enough for the gold medal in their age category.
Move to Italy
After the family had emigrated to Italy in the summer of 2010 due to a change of job with their parents, Alexandra Agiurgiuculese began to appear in competitions for her new home country and from then on competed in various national competitions. Agiurgiuculese, who lives in the Venetian city of Cordignano and who today visits the Liceo Scientifico Alessandro Volta in Udine and is a member of AS Udinese based there , was trained not only by the Slovenian Spela Dragas at the beginning of her career in Italy, but also by the Italian Magda Pigano. It was only in 2012 that she completed her first real Italian competition when she took part in the Allieve 2 ° fascia and won gold in the overall ranking. At the national championships of Serie C ( Campionato Nazionale Serie C Ginnastica Ritmica ) she ranked second on the podium. The following year she was able to defend her title in her age group in the Serie C and took part in the national championships of the Serie B for AS Udinese, where she won the silver medal and thus managed to move up to the Serie A2.
Beginning of the junior career
After her promotion to the junior category, she received the silver medal behind Daniela Mogurean from Ginnastica Fabriano at the national championships in her category in 2014 . In the same year she won the league with AS Udinese and rose with the team from Serie A2 to Serie A1. Also in 2014 she took part in the international MTM tournament in Ljubljana , where she won gold with the ball and silver with the hoop, clubs and ribbon. After she was officially granted the Italian citizenship in 2015, she received the call to appear in the "Italian national color ", azure blue . In March of this year, she represented Italy at the first World Cup of the year in Lisbon , which she finished in 7th place overall, but reached the final rounds on all devices. She achieved the bronze medal with the ball, was fourth with the clubs, seventh with the hoop and eighth with the rope. She also took part again in the MTM tournament in Ljubljana, where she won the gold medal in the overall ranking this time.
Numerous successes from 2016
As a result, Agiurgiuculese won a large number of medals from 2016. In addition to participating in the Campionati Assoluti Italiani 2016 , she also took part in the national championship in the Tuscan town of Terranuova Bracciolini this year and received the title at the national junior championship, with which she qualified for the Campionati Nazionali Assoluti . Here she was now also allowed to compete in the senior area. At the Campionati Nazionali Assoluti in Biella in June 2016 , she reached fifth place in the overall ranking, behind top-class gymnasts such as Carmen Crescenzi , Alessia Russo , Letizia Cicconcelli and Veronica Bertolini . At these championships she also reached the finals with the hoop, the clubs and the ribbon.
In January 2016 she was the first junior gymnast in the history of the Federazione Ginnastica d'Italia to be appointed to the national squad, Team Italia , by the same association . So far, only senior gymnasts had made it into the national team. In March 2016 she took part in the second station of the World Cup 2016 in Lisbon in the junior area, where she won the bronze medal together with Milena Baldassarri and Caterina Allovio in the Nations Cup with Italy. Furthermore, she made it into the final with three machines and came in second with the rope (silver medal), fourth with the ball and fifth with the clubs. At the following World Cup in Pesaro at the beginning of April , she and her two teammates again achieved third place in the team ranking of the juniors, which meant the repeated bronze medal. In addition, she won the bronze medal with the hoop and the silver medal with the rope and the ball in the individual junior division. After she was not present at the two subsequent World Cup stations in Tashkent and Minsk , she won the junior ranking at the World Cup in Sofia Bronze in the team ranking, silver with the rope and bronze with the clubs. Before that, she took part again in the annual MTM tournament in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, where she won silver in the team standings, gold with the rope, and again silver with the hoop and ball.
In June 2016 she took part again in the Campionati Nazionali Assoluti, where she came third in the overall standings due to a series of small mistakes with the tire and the tape. In the club final, however, she won the silver medal. In the same month she won the silver medal in the Nations Cup at the European Championships of Rhythmic Gymnastics 2016 in Cholon , Israel , alongside Milena Baldassarri . Furthermore, she was the only gymnast who managed to take part in all four apparatus finals and to be successful here. She won three medals here; Bronze with the rope, and silver with the ball and clubs; a result that not a single Italian gymnast has ever achieved. In the national championship she appeared again at the end of the season for her club AS Udinese and took fourth place with the team in the final classification of Serie A.
Promotion to the senior sector (2017)
In 2017 Agiurgiuculese finally made the leap into the senior sector and made her first official appearances as a professional with the Grand Prix in Moscow in February. Here she was still in eighth place in the overall standings, but was able to hold its own against the mostly older competition and make it into all four device finals. At the subsequent World Cup opener in April in Pesaro, she reached 13th place overall and made it to the finals with the ball and ribbon. In the same time she just missed the podium with the ball and finished fourth, but set a new Italian record with the tape and came third behind the two Russians Dina Alexejewna Averina and Aleksandra Sergejewna Soldatowa . With this she won a historical medal, since this feat was last achieved in 1991 with the later Olympian Samantha Ferrari, an Italian senior individual gymnast.
The following month, after skipping the World Cup stations in Tashkent and Baku , she took part in the World Cup in Sofia, where she was again 13th overall. Again she made it to the finals with the ball and ribbon, where she won the silver medal with the ball behind local hero Newjana Vladinova . Also in May 2017 she got the opportunity to prove herself in the senior sector at the European Championships of Rhythmic Gymnastics 2017 in Budapest . In the final ranking it was enough for tenth place in the individual overall ranking and eighth place in the final with the ball. The following week she visited the international gymnast in the city of Barcelona , where she ranked eighth overall. The Italian championship, Campionati Nazionali Assoluti, which took place in early June 2017, surprisingly finished Agiurgiuculese in second place behind the Italian champion Veronica Bertolini, who was over five years older. Winning the gold medal with the ball and the two silver medals with the clubs and the ribbon contributed to this.
Another week later she took part in the bilateral tournament of the two nations Italy and the United States in Turin , where she finished the overall standings in second place behind her compatriot Milena Baldassarri and ahead of the American Laura Zeng . In the country ranking, the Italians prevailed over the Americans. From 7 to 9 July 2017, she took over the World Cup - the two previous World Cup in Portimão ( Portugal ) and Guadalajara ( Spain ) had failed due to their other missions - at FIG Berlin Masters World Challenge Cup in 2017 in Germany's capital Berlin in part . In Berlin she made it to fourth place in the overall ranking and was there with three machines in the final round. She won silver with the hoop and was fifth with the ball and fourth with the ribbon. Less than a month later, she made a stop at the World Cup in Minsk, where she took seventh place in the final ranking and reached the final with the hoops, skittles and balls, but only won a medal, the bronze medal, with the ball. Only a few days after the appearances in Minsk, she completed further World Cup appearances in Kazan , where she took tenth place in the overall standings and made it to the final with the hoop, the ball and the skittles, but remained medalless.
From the end of August to the beginning of September 2017, Agiurgiuculese took part in the home world championship in Pesaro, where she made it to the final with three out of four machines. She took seventh place with the ball, fifth place with the clubs, and fourth place with the ribbon and was eighth in the overall standings, which made her the best Italian in the field. At the end of the tournament, Alina Maratovna Kabaeva awarded her the Longines- sponsored Elegance Prize. This was only the second award of this kind for Italy; the last time an Italian received this award was at the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in 2002 .
Web links
- Alexandra Agiurgiuculese in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
- Una storia di ginnastica multietnica a Udine: intervista ad Alexandra Agiurgiuculese ( Memento of August 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on September 5, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexandra Agiurgiuculese, la junior stella tricolore dell'Asu (Italian), accessed on September 5, 2017
- ↑ Ginnastica, Europei ritmica: Italia flop, settima. Festa Bielorussia (Italian), accessed September 5, 2017
- ↑ GP MOSCOW 2017: OTTIMO ESORDIO PER AGIURGIUCULESE (Italian), accessed on September 5, 2017
- ↑ Results –Moscow Grand Prix 2017 - Moscow (Russia), DRUZHBA, Sports Complex - February 17–19 , 2017 (Italian), accessed on September 5, 2017
- ↑ Due ori per l'Italia alle World Cup di Pesaro: bronzo storico per l'azzurra Agiurgiuculese (Italian), accessed on September 5, 2017
- ↑ Veronica Bertolini: Campionessa italiana per la quinta volta (Italian), accessed on September 5, 2017
- ↑ Berlin Masters inspire fans , accessed on September 5, 2017
- ↑ a b Pesaro 2017: Alexandra vince il premio Eleganza Longines (Italian), accessed on September 5, 2017
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| SURNAME | Agiurgiuculese, Alexandra |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Agiurgiuculese, Alexandra Ana Maria (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 2001 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iași , Romania |