[1] Saladuha took up athletics at the same club as Sergey Bubka, originally as a sprint hurdler before switching to triple jumping.

After struggling with injuries for the next two years and briefly retiring from the sport, she made steady progress, finishing fourth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and winning the gold at the 2007 Summer Universiade with a personal best of 14.79 meters.

[2] At the end of 2008 Saladuha took a year out of competition to start a family, giving birth to a daughter, Diana.

The following year she set a new personal best at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon, where she jumped 14.98 meters, and she then went on to take the gold medal at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu.

[2] She won the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, and was European champion in the women's triple jump in 2010, 2012 and 2014.