Livia Maria Chiariello

Livia Maria Chiariello (born 2005) is a Swiss individual rhythmic gymnast. She is a multiple-time junior national champion as well as the 2022 senior national champion, and she is also the first Swiss gymnast to win a medal at an International Gymnastics Federation-sanctioned event.

Personal life Chiariello has three siblings, two sisters and one brother. Her younger sister Sophia Carlotta is also an internationally competitive rhythmic gymnast. She likes to draw in her free time. including fourteen national titles in the all-around and event finals. Chiariello and her sister Sophia Carlotta traveled to Italy on several occasions to train under coaches there. Although she wished to be able to take part in the 2021 World Championships, the Swiss Gymnastics Federation elected not to send any athletes. Chiariello said that she heard about the decision from Italian gymnasts who asked her why there would be no Swiss athletes at the competition.

In September, the national rhythmic gymnastics training center in Switzerland was dissolved, and athletes such as Chiariello had to train at regional centers. However, unlike the national training center, the regional centers did not have sprung floors, and Chiariello and other athletes continued their training on hard floors. The Swiss Gymnastics Federation was alerted to the risks of having gymnasts training without sprung floors in 2018 and again in April 2021 but did not take action. She placed 36th, the best result for an individual Swiss gymnast in over 20 years. Although she suffered from pain due to a stress fracture in her foot - estimated by a physician to be her third or fourth - she continued to train. The fracture was caused by training on hard floors rather than sprung ones.

2023 season Chiariello did not compete in 2023 due to her foot injury.

2024 season In April 2024, she returned to competition by entering the Unity Cup in Poland. There, she won the gold medal in the all-around. In early June, she competed at the Swiss National Championships and placed fifth in the all-around. Later in June, she competed at the Grand Prix stage in Brno, where she finished in 18th place in the all-around.

Chiariello was elected to a new athletes' commission for the Swiss Gymnastics Federation in December as the representative for rhythmic gymnastics.

2025 season In March, Chiariello competed at the Aphrodite Cup in Athens. Despite dropping her apparatus in three of her four routines, she placed the best of the Swiss gymnasts in the all-around and finished in 21st. Chiariello said, "The last few months have been a challenge, but this result shows that the hard work has paid off." The event was one of two used to select the competitors for the 2025 European Championships. The second selection event was the MTM Tournament in Ljubljana, held in April. Chiariello scored less than half a point less than her sister, Sophia Carlotta, though she did not compete for a ranking. It was announced afterward that Chiariello, along with Lauren Grüniger, had been selected to compete at the European Championships.

At the European Championships in June, she ranked 39th in the all-around qualifications.