Career
Gaponenko played for the Ukrainian national team at the biennal Women"s Chess Olympiads from 1994 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2014. In the Women"s World Team Chess Championship she took team gold in 2013, bronze in 2007 and 2009, and two individual gold medals (in 2007 and 2009). She played also for the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team in the 2013 Women"s European Team Chess Championship in Warsaw.