Junior She competed at the 2006 Deriugina cup and won a silver medal in the all-around behind
Daria Kushnerova.
Senior In 2007, she made a debut at the
World Championships in
Patras, Greece, where she was a part of the Ukrainian senior group (
Olena Dmytrash,
Polina Kondaurova,
Viera Perederiy,
Oksana Petulko,
Vita Zubchenko) that finished 8th in
Group All-around. In 2008, Maksymenko participated as a member of the Ukrainian Group at the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing, China. 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. She competed at the
2009 World Games in
Kaohsiung, Taiwan and placed 5th in Hoop, 6th in Ribbon, 7th in Rope, and 8th in Ball. 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). She was 4th in Rope final, 5th in Hoop, 6th in Ball, and 8th in Ribbon. Maksymenko won three gold and one silver medal at the Deriugina World Cup 2011. At the
2011 Universiade held in
Shenzhen, she won the silver medal in the hoop final (28.100) and the bronze medal in the clubs final. Maksymenko also helped Ukraine win the team bronze medal at the
2011 World Championships in
Montpellier, France. She placed 5th in the all-around final and qualified for the London 2012 Olympics. She started her 2012 season competing at the LA 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 in the
individual all-around event at the
2012 Summer Olympics in London where her fashion style caught attention. She qualified for the finals and finished 6th overall. At the 2013 LA Lights, she won the silver medal in the all-around behind teammate
Ganna Rizatdinova. She then competed at the
2013 Holon Grand Prix, where she finished 12th in all-around and won gold in clubs final. She finished 5th in all-around in her first World Cup competition of the season in
Lisbon, Portugal. At the
2013 Irina Deleanu Cup, she won the silver in all-around and bronze in clubs. She won another bronze medal in the hoop final at the Pesaro World Cup. She withdrew from the Sofia World Cup due to an aggravated injury. Maksymenko then competed at the
2013 European Championships in
Vienna, Austria, and together with her teammates
Ganna Rizatdinova and
Viktoria Mazur won the Team silver medal. Maksymenko competed at the International Trophy "Ciutat de Barcelona", where she won silver in the all-around behind Russian gymnast
Alexandra Merkulova. At the
2013 Summer Universiade in
Kazan, she finished 4th in all-around behind teammate
Ganna Rizatdinova. She won silver in the hoop (tied with teammate Rizatdinova) and bronze in the clubs (also tied with Rizatdinova). Maksymenko, together with Rizatdinova and Mazur, appeared in an editorial in the August 2013 edition of Ukraine Vogue. Maksymenko competed at the
2013 World Games in
Cali, where she won bronze medals in ball and clubs. Maksymenko won a bronze in Clubs at the
2013 World Championships in
Kyiv,
Ukraine. 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. ==Personal life==