Career
She also defeated Lithuania"s Daina Gudzinevičiūtė by one point for the gold medal in the women"s trap at the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Lahti, Finland, accumulating a score of 93 targets. Tkach made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed only in two shooting events. She scored a total of 81 clay pigeons 65 in the preliminary rounds and 16 in the final) in the women"s trap by five points behind German shooter and Olympic silver medalist Susanne Kiermayer, finishing only in sixth place.
The following day, Tkach placed sixteenth in the qualifying rounds of the women"s double trap by three points behind Canada"s Susan Nattrass, accumulating a score of 90 targets.
Twelve years after competing in her last Olympics, Tkach qualified for her second Russian team, as a 42-year-old, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by placing second in the women"s trap from the 2011 European Shooting Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.
