When Barta was six years, she was finishing a fun run the when metal scaffolding fell onto her, shattering her left ankle.

At the event, Barta met the head of the Challenged Athletes Foundation which resulted in the organization donating an improved running blade to her.

[3][5] Barta competed in the World Para Athletics Championships in 2019 where she entered three events finishing 7th in the shot put T64, 4th in the 200 metres T64 and 9th in the discus throw T64.

[4] In the 2020 Paralympic Games, Barta qualified for the 200 metres final where she narrowly missed out on a medal, finishing 4th behind Kimberly Alkemade of the Netherlands.

In 2023, she completed summer research on gait analysis as a Wu Tsai scholar with a prominent orthopaedic surgeon at Stanford, while training for the 2023 Para Panamerican Games in Santiago, Chile where she won gold in the 200 meters, T64.