She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo in 2021 and won a silver medal in the women's 59 kg competition.

[4][5] She is one of the few Turkmens who won Olympic medals, joining the likes of the late Marat Nyýazow (who represented the USSR at the 1960 Olympics in Rome)[6] and Daniyar İsmayilov (an ethnic Turkmen who represents Turkey).

[7] She started to do artistic gymnastics in 2011 in Ashgabat, and eventually moved to weightlifting.

[8] Guryeva is a student of the Turkmen State Institute of Physical Culture and Sports.

[8] For winning the first Olympic medal, the Turkmen State presented Polina Guryeva with a Lexus LX570 Sport Plus car, a new three-room apartment and 50 thousand US dollars.