Career
Bakatyuk represented Kazakhstan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women"s 48 kg class. She defeated Germany"s Alexandra Engelhardt and El Salvador"s Íngrid Medrano in the preliminary rounds, before losing out the semi-final match to Canada"s Carol Huynh, who was able to score five points in two straight periods, leaving Bakatyuk without a single point.