[2] In October 1994 she became a starter, making her competition debut at the Portimão International Tournament in April 1995, where she won bronze in both the All-Around and the 5 hoops final.

The group made up of Marta Baldó, Nuria Cabanillas, Estela Giménez, Lorena Guréndez, Tania Lamarca and Estíbaliz Martínez won an historical gold ahead of Bulgaria and Russia.

[9][10] Years later, at the presentation in Pamplona of the book Lágrimas por una medalla by her colleague Tania Lamarca, Maider would comment that for her the retirement "was a relief [...] The worst thing for me was the pressure of being concentrated in Madrid.

"[11] On August 5, 2000, she participated along with some of her former teammates from the national team in a tribute to Emilia Boneva during the Spanish Rhythmic Gymnastics Group Championships held in Malaga, in which they performed an exercise set up especially for the occasion that was inspired in the 1996 5 hoops and that they had trained the previous weeks with the help of Ana Bautista.

[9] In April 2002, the members of the 1996 group met again at the V Interschool Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition, which was organized by MT in Zaragoza and where five of them performed one of the Atlanta exercises, in addition to receiving a tribute.

In August 2006, along with the rest of her former teammates from the 1996 national team, she attended a reunion that took place in Ávila for three days on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of winning the gold medal in Atlanta.

[21][22] On July 23, 2016, she was reunited with the rest of the group at the 20th Anniversary Gala of the gold medal in Atlanta '96, which took place at the Badajoz Congress Palace within the framework of the X International Campus of Nuria Cabanillas Rhythmic Gymnastics.

[23] Several former gymnasts of the national team also attended the tribute, such as Carolina Pascual, Almudena Cid, Alba Caride, Ana Bautista, Carolina Malchair, Marta Calamonte, María Eugenia Rodríguez and Ana María Pelaz, as well as the international judge Maite Nadal and the choreographer of the Atlanta group, Marisa Mateo.

[26] After Boneva's death on 20 September 2019, Maider and other former national gymnasts gathered to pay tribute to her during the Euskalgym held on 16 November 2019, the event took place before 8,500 attendees at the Bilbao Exhibition Center de Baracaldo and was followed by a dinner in her honor.