In 1977, she became a member of the Soviet national rowing team. She dropped out of the national rowing team after her initial year and became a member again from 1981 to 1984, when she competed in
single scull. She became women's single scull world champion at the
1982 World Rowing Championships in
Lucerne, Switzerland. At the
1983 World Rowing Championships in
Duisburg, Germany, she won a silver medal. In 1984, she changed to coxed quad scull, displaced by
Mariya Danyliuk in the single sculls. She did not go to the
1984 Summer Olympics due to the
boycott led by the Soviet Union. Instead, she competed at the
Friendship Games, also dubbed the "alternative Olympics", and won first place with the coxed quad sculls. She finished her rowing career in that year. Fetisova was awarded the
Order of the Badge of Honour for her success in rowing. == References ==