[2] In the women's -75 kg class at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships, Evstyukhina won the silver medal,[3] finishing behind Cao Lei.

[1][6] She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, but failed to snatch the initial weight.

Reanalysis of Evstyukhina's samples from Beijing 2008 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substances dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and EPO.

Retested samples from the original gold medalist Cao Lei in the same event at the 2008 Olympics also returned positive and her medal was also withdrawn.

[8] The fate of Evstyukhina's other medals following the 2008 positive sample is to be decided by the IWF.