Career
The two repeated this finish in the 4×100 metres relay, where the Soviet women"s team which included Lyudmila Dmitriadi took second place. She changed her name to Stepicheva in 1989 and competed under that name for the rest of her career. This was to be her sole outdoor national title.
The 1992 season was to be the most successful of her career.
First, she ran a personal best indoors of 22.97 seconds at the Meeting Pas de Calais in France. She ran a lifetime best of 22.73 seconds in Duisburg in the outdoor season, ranking her in the top 25 in the world that year, but it proved to be her last season of major competition.