Education
She joined in 2008 the national senior team and took part in her first World championships in Beijing, where Ukraine finished 13th.
She joined in 2008 the national senior team and took part in her first World championships in Beijing, where Ukraine finished 13th.
Pochkalova is a student at the Lviv State University of Physical Culture. In 2009 she earned a bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Belfast. She finished the 2008-2009 season no.1 in junior rankings and no.26 in senior rankings, a career best as of 2014.
This early success was followed by a dry spell.
They were largely defeated by Russia in the first round and finished last after the classification matches. In the 2012-2013 season Pochkalova returned to a top 50 ranking with a table of 16 at the Xuzhou Grand Prix, a quarter-final at the European Championships and a second round at the World Championships.
Pochkalova learnt fencing in Lviv under Zoriana Savruk, then Andriy Orlykovskyi, who also trained Olympic champion Yana Shemyakina. She won in 2007 a bronze medal at the Cadet European Championships in Novi Sad and a silver medal at the Junior European Championship in Prague. She was part of the Ukrainian team that won the gold medal at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade. She reached the semi-final in the senior World Fencing Championships after defeating reigning Olympic champion Britta Heidemann, but fell to Russia"s Lyubov Shutova and came away with a bronze medal. After a disappointing 2013-2014 season, she won at Legnano her first World Cup competition after defeating in the final Romania"s Ana Maria Brânză.
She took part in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London as a member of the Ukrainian team
