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At the 1975 European Youth Championships Kondratyeva finished 4th in the 200m and in the 4 × 100 m relay.
At the 1975 European Youth Championships Kondratyeva finished 4th in the 200m and in the 4 × 100 m relay.
Kondratyeva began athletics at age 11 at the Children and Youth Sport School in Shakhty, her first trainer being Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlenko. Two years later she passed exams into Rostov on Don Children and Youth Sport School, created in 1971, where she was coached by Nina Vasilyevna Lazarchenko. Now one of the medal favourites for the 1980 Summer Olympics, which were held in Moscow, she also ran a non-recognised World Record just before the Olympics.
The final was a close race, with the first 5 finishing within 1 tenth of a second.
A photo finish showed that Kondratyeva had beaten Marlies Göhr of East Germany by just 0.01 seconds. Unfortunately, Kondratyeva pulled her hamstring at the finish, thereby not allowing her to run the 200 m or the 4 × 100 m relay.
The pair had a daughter, Oksana Kondratyeva, who followed in her father"s footsteps and became an international hammer thrower. She came out of retirement to compete at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.
Unable to compete at the 1984 Summer Olympics due to the boycott led by the Soviet Union, Kondratyeva could not defend her Olympic title.
In 1973 she became a member of the Soviet Union National Youth Team, and in 1974 - of the Soviet Union National Team.