Alice D'Amato

D'Amato made her international debut at the 2015 City of Jesolo Trophy as part of Italy's Young Dreams team alongside Giorgia Villa and her twin sister Asia D'Amato.[2] D'Amato was injured for most of 2016 but competed at the Italian Event Championships where she placed first on uneven bars.[3]

In 2017 D'Amato competed at the Mediterranean Junior Championships where she won silver in the all-around behind Elisa Iorio and won gold in the team final.[4] She later competed at the Italian National Championships where she placed third in the all-around and on balance beam.[5] She later competed at the 2017 European Youth Olympic Festival alongside Elisa Iorio and Asia D'Amato. There she helped Italy win silver behind Russia. Individually she qualified to the uneven bars final but was withdrawn from the final so her teammate Iorio, who would later win gold, could compete.

D'Amato competed at the Italian Championships where she won silver on the uneven bars. In August D'Amato competed at the 2018 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships alongside Asia D'Amato, Alessia Federici, Elisa Iorio, and Giorgia Villa where Italy won team gold.[6][7]

In April D'Amato was officially named to the team to compete at the 2019 European Championships alongside Giorgia Villa, Elisa Iorio and Asia D'Amato.[8] There she qualified to the all-around final and to the uneven bars final.[9] During the all-around final D'Amato finished in fourth place after falling off the balance beam behind Mélanie de Jesus dos Santos of France, Ellie Downie of Great Britain, and Angelina Melnikova of Russia.[10] The following day she won the bronze medal on the uneven bars behind Russians Anastasia Ilyankova and Melnikova. In doing so, D'Amato became the first Italian to win a European Championships medal on the apparatus.[11]

In August D'Amato competed at the Heerenveen Friendly where she helped Italy win gold in the team competition ahead of the Netherlands and Norway and individually she finished fourth in the all-around behind Villa, Eythora Thorsdottir, and Naomi Visser. Additionally she recorded the highest vault and uneven bars scores.[12] On September 4 D'Amato was named to the team to compete at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany alongside Giorgia Villa, Asia D'Amato, Elisa Iorio, and Desirée Carofiglio.[13]

During qualifications at the World Championships D'Amato helped Italy qualify to the team final in eighth place; as a result Italy also qualified to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.[14] In the team final, D'Amato helped Italy win the bronze medal – Italy's first team medal since the 1950 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. They ended up finishing behind the United States and Russia but ahead of China, who originally qualified to the final in second place.[15]

In early February it was announced that D'Amato was selected to represent Italy at the Birmingham World Cup taking place in late March.[16] She was later replaced by Desiree Carofiglio.[17] However the Birmingham World Cup was later canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.[18]