Career
After the break-up of the Soviet Union, the former Soviet states (except the Baltic states) competed together at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona as the Unified Team. As part of the Unified Team, Sedakova competed in both the solo and duet routinesagain partnering with Kozlova. During the competition, Sedakova and Koslava"s coach quit on them leaving them to finish the competition alone.
Sedakova placed fourth in both events.
Following Barcelona both events were dropped from the Olympic program and replaced with a team competition. Competed as an independent country at the 1993 European Aquatics Championships in Sheffield, and Sedakova again completed her trifecta winning gold medals in all three events contested.
The 1993 European Championships would be Sedakova"s last partnering in the duet with Anna Kozlova, as Kozlova defected to the United States shortly after the competition. At the 1994 World Championships, Sedakova again placed fourth in the solo competition.
She returned to Atlanta to compete in the 1996 Summer Olympics, where the n team finished in fourth place.
She returned to Perth for the 1998 World Aquatics Championships, where she experienced the greatest success in her career. Sedakova was only the fourth person to sweep every event at a single championships, following Teresa Andersen in the first World Aquatics Championships in 1973, Carolyn Waldo in 1986, and Becky Dyroen-Lancer at the previous competition in 1994. Despite her resounding success, it would be her last major competition.