Career
Olga first took up the sport of rhythmic gymnastics in 1993 and trained with Elena Nefedova. In 2002 she started to train with Irina Viner, who has coached other huge stars of the sport, including Yana Batyrshina, Alina Kabaeva.
In 2003 she began competing internationally and came 4th All-Around in the World Cup, Zaragoza and won a team medal at the World Championships in Budapest.
2004 was a good year for Olga but she was unable to make the Olympics with the great talents Irina Tchachina and Alina Kabaeva taking the two places. After the retirements of Russian gymnasts Kabaeva and Tchachina, Olga became one of Russia's top gymnasts. In 2005 she won the individual all-around title at the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Olga continued her success scoring a number of medals in the World Cup series in 2007 and 2008. She won the Grand Prix Final in 2007 and 2008. She won the bronze medal in All-around at the 2007 World championships behind teammate Vera Sessina. At the 2007 Summer Universiade Olga won the silver medal in all-around behind Anna Bessonova.
In the 2008 Olympics Season, Olga won the bronze medal in all-around at the 2008 European Championships behind Russian rising star Evgenia kanaeva and silver medalist Anna Bessonova. She was selected to competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics after beating Vera Sessina to take the second spot in the Russian team, along with Evgenia Kanaeva. She was ranked 2nd place in the qualifications and took 4th place on the Women's Individual event finals.
She competed at the 2009 World Championships along with the Russian Team members Evgenia Kanaeva, Daria Kondakova and Daria Dmitrieva in Mie, Japan where they also won the Team Gold medal. She completed her career at the end of the 2009 Season.
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