Background
Dudkina was trained by Elena Arais (daughter of Vera Shtelbaums, who is Evgenia Kanaeva"s personal coach) before she started competing in group.
Dudkina was trained by Elena Arais (daughter of Vera Shtelbaums, who is Evgenia Kanaeva"s personal coach) before she started competing in group.
Dudkina became an Honored Master of Sports of Russia in 2011. Dudkina like Kanaeva is an honorary citizen of Omsk. She was part of the golden winning Russian Group at the 2012 European Championships and at the World Cup Final in Minsk.
Dudkina along with rest of the remaining Russian Group Olympians completed their careers after the World Championships.
Irina Viner has stated about their dismissal and retirements: "We have made drastic changes in the composition of the group. All the girls, who a year ago at the Olympic Games were the first after the World Cup series had to say goodbye to the sport.
They did not show in Kiev what could and should have been shown. The "star disease" should not be left on the carpet.
She competed as member of the senior Russian Group at the 2011 World Championships. She was one of the youngest member of the Russian Group in the 2012 Olympics at only 17 years old.