Career
She trained at Spartak in Kharkiv and represented the Soviet Union and the Unified Team. She was born in Kharkiv and competed for the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in the 1988 Summer Olympics, where she placed third in the 4 x 400 metres relay heats with the team, but was substituted by Tatyana Ledovskaya in the finals. She received a four-year ban from athletics after failing a drugs test, having been positive for steroids in an out-of-competition test.