Career
She ranked in the global top twenty-five for the discipline in 1984, recording a personal best mark of 63.52 m (208 ft 43⁄4 in). Alongside Natalya Lisovskaya, she was only one of two Soviet female winners at the competition and helped her nation to second place in the team rankings. Gavrilova has only placed ninth at the Soviet Athletics Championships that year and brought an end to Felke"s 26-meeting undefeated streak.
