Background
Kononova was born in Brovary in 1991.
Kononova was born in Brovary in 1991.
Her first trainer was Anatoliy Zadvineyev. When Kononova was nineteen she was chosen to travel from her home in Kyiv Oblast to represent her country at the paralympics in Canada. She was part of a Ukrainian team who had been fourth at the last paralympics and who hoped to better their position.
Kononova competed at the IPC Nordic Biathlon World Cup in Vuokatti in Finland in 2014.
On the final day of the World Cup she was the only non-Russian to claim a gold medal. She was in the Ukrainian biathlon team at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.