Career
Her personal best for the event was 6.80 m (22 ft 31⁄2 in). Her career flourished very briefly in the late seventies and early eighties. She first rose to prominence in 1978 when a jump of 6.69 m (21 ft 111⁄4 in) ranked her tenth in the world for the season.
During her career, she set an indoor personal best of 6.62 m (21 ft 81⁄2 in).
The 1979 season marked the pinnacle of her long jumping career. Only Brigitte Wujak jumper further that year.
Stukane and Wujak went head-to-head at the 1979 IAAF World Cup and the Soviet athlete came out on top with a gold-medal winning leap of 6.64 m (21 ft 91⁄4 in). Stukane continued to compete (later getting married and changing her name to Anita Balode-Stukāne), but her highest world ranking after 1979 was 20th in the 1981 season.
Long jump outdoors: 6.80 m (22 ft 31⁄2 in) (1979) Long jump indoors: 6.62 m (21 ft 81⁄2 in) (?).