She won a gold medal in the 2024 Paris Olympics Maggetti was born in the Italian city of Cagliari on the island of Sardinia in 1996.

[1] In 2013 she was 17 and a member of the Caglieri Sailing Club when she went to Cyprus to return that July with a silver medal from the Under-19 World Championship.

She then windsurfed to win the RS:X Youth World Championship which was held in Italy at Civitavecchia.

[5] Based on her successes in 2022, Maggetti was chosen in February 2024 to join Italy's team at the 2024 Summer Olympics[6] where she won a gold medal.

She beat the Israeli Sharon Kantor and the British Emma Wilson In September she was honoured in her home town with a reception by the City council president, Marco Benucci, and the mayor of Cagliari Massimo Zedda.