Background
She was born in Irkutsk, hometown of former World Champion Oxana Kostina and 2012 Olympic all-around silver medalist Daria Dmitrieva.
She was born in Irkutsk, hometown of former World Champion Oxana Kostina and 2012 Olympic all-around silver medalist Daria Dmitrieva.
In 2013 Season, Polyakova finished 10th in all-around at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships.
She is the 2014 Russian Junior National all-around bronze medalist. Junior
Polyakova has competed both as an individual and in group gymnastics. Polyakova appeared in international competition at the 2012 Irina Deleanu Cup with teammate Aleksandra Soldatova.
She competed in her first Junior nationals at the 2012 Russian Junior Championships finishing 29th in all-around
She competed in the junior division at the Grand Prix in Moscow and World Cup Series.
She competed in the World Cup series in Lisbon winning gold in team, bronze in ribbon, in Pesaro winning Team gold for Russia and gold in event finals for hoop. She competed in 2 apparatus, hoop and ribbon but did not qualify to the event finals with Bravikova and Annenkova placing ahead of her in qualifications for the finals in the 1 gymnast per country junior rule.
Following the leg injury of Yulia Bravikova, both Polyakova and Annenkova flew to Nanjing, there Annenkova was selected by Irina Viner as the final representative of Russia at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. senior
In 2015 season, Polyakova debuted as a senior competing at the 2015 Moscow Grand Prix finishing 6th in the all-around finals. In March 21-22, Polyakova competed at the 2015 Thiais Grand Prix finishing 9th in the all-around, she qualified to 3 event finals.
She took 4th place in the all-around at the 2015 Russian Championships.
Polyakova competed at the 2015 Holon Grand Prix finishing 8th in all-around. Polyakova competed as an The Human Context (Out of Competition) at the MTK International Tournament in Budapest and Dundee Cup International in Sofia.