At the 2010 European Championships she won the long jump event with a new Latvian record of 6.92 metres.

In 2011, she won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Daegu with a result of 6.76 metres.

[3] In 2017 she received a Silver medal when results were updated because of past doping offenses.

Afterwards she realised her dream of earning an Olympic medal was not going to happen, and she retired to devote herself to her family, ending her professional career.

[6] She is married to Russian ice hockey player Petr Schastlivy and has 2 sons and a daughter.