She represented her country at the World Championships in Athletics in 1983 and 1987, winning a relay medal at the latter edition.

[1] Her first full senior outing came at the 1981 IAAF World Cup, where as part of the Soviet 4×100 metres relay team (alongside Olga Zolotaryova, Lyudmila Kondratyeva and Natalya Bochina) she won a further bronze medal.

[2] A run of 11.24 seconds for the 100 m earned her a place at the inaugural 1983 World Championships in Athletics.

[4] She opted for the longer 200 metres distance at the 1984 European Athletics Indoor Championships and came away with the bronze medal (although she was almost a second slower than the winner Jarmila Kratochvílová).

The team ended up a clear third place behind the American and East German women.