Career
Zertsalova competed in a medley double at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. On the first day of the Games, Zertsalova placed twenty-seventh in the 400 m individual medley. Swimming in heat one, she raced to the third seed by more than ten seconds behind Argentina"s Georgina Bardach and Slovakia"s Jana Korbasová in 5:09.03.
Two days later, in the 200 m individual medley, Zertsalova posted a second-place time of 2:24.09 in the same heat, but finished in thirty-second place among 36 other swimmers from the prelims.
