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They finished eighth in the group all-around finals.
They finished eighth in the group all-around finals.
At the 2009 World Championships in Ise, Mie, Japan, Maksymenko began competing as an individual gymnast and placed 16th in the all-around final. At the 2010 World Championships in Moscow, Russia, she placed 5th in the all-around final. She was also one of the only two gymnasts to qualify for all of the event finals (the other being Aliya Garayeva).
Maksymenko qualified for the London 2012 Olympics.
She started her 2012 season competing at the Los Angeles Lights in Los Angeles but struggled with her new routines and finished behind fellow Ukrainian Ganna Rizatdinova in all-around. She then competed at the 2012 Deriugina Cup and took silver in all-around behind Russian gymnast Daria Dmitrieva.
Maksymenko competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She qualified for the finals and finished 6th overall.
She finished 5th in all-around in her first World Cup competition of the season in Lisbon, Portugal.
She withdrew from the Sofia World Cup due to an aggravated injury. At the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, she finished 4th in all-around behind teammate Ganna Rizatdinova. Maksymenko together with Rizatdinova and Mazur appeared in an editorial on the 2013 August edition of Ukraine Vogue.
Maksymenko finished 7th in the All-around at the 2013 World Championships.
Maksymenko completed her career at the end of the 2013 season and accepted the invitation of her coaches in the Deriugins School to work as a coach. Maksymenko can speak Russian, Ukrainian and English.
In 2008, Maksymenko participated as a member of the Ukrainian Group at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.