In 1984, they won the bronze medal at the Sarajevo Olympics, which was the first major international competition for the pair.

[4] Armed with strong pairs skills and difficult side-by-side triple jumps, they won the silver medal at the 1985 World Championships in Tokyo, almost defeating the then-reigning World and Olympic champion team, Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev, also from the Soviet Union.

Selezneva / Makarov were one of the first pairs to regularly include side-by-side triple jumps in their programs.

[2] The family moved from Saint Petersburg, Russia to New York in 2001,[6] having been recommended as coaches by Tamara Moskvina and Igor Moskvin.

[2][6] Their daughter became a competitive figure skater like her parents; she is the 2010 Russian national champion and represented Russia at the 2010 Winter Olympics.