[2] Oksana Kondratyeva became a member of the Moscow Youth Sports Club and began competing in the hammer in her late teens.
[4] She had three straight wins at the start of 2009, setting new bests each time to end up with 67.19 m (220 ft 5+1⁄4 in) and the Russian Team Championships title.
[5] At the Russian Athletics Cup she cleared seventy metres for the first time to place second to Tatyana Lysenko with a new personal best of 71.90 m (235 ft 10+1⁄2 in).
[5] At the start of 2011 she competed on the global circuit for the first time and placed fourth at the Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar.
[13] Her fourth consecutive appearance at the Summer Universiade (held on home soil in Kazan) brought her first international medal in the form of a silver behind American Jeneva McCall.
[5] She performed well on her first appearance on the global championship stage: her opening throw of 73.89 m (242 ft 5 in) made her the fifth best in qualifying and her best mark in the hammer throw final of 72.76 m (238 ft 8+1⁄2 in) meant she finished seventh in the event (national rival Lysenko won the competition and another Russian, Anna Bulgakova, was fifth).
[5] On 7 April 2021, Kondratyeva was banned for four years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport for an anti doping rule violation with all her results from 2 July 2013 onwards disqualified, including her silver medal at the 2013 Universiade and her 7th placed finish at the 2013 world championships.