Utiasheva's first coach was Alla Yanina.
Irina Viner invited both Utiasheva and her coach to join the Olympic Centre in Moscow, but it was only Utiasheva who moved. Utiasheva's breakthrough came in 2001 when she placed third at the Russian Championships. She then competed at the
2001 World Cup in Berlin and won gold medals in All-around and the individual apparatus finals in clubs, ball, rope and hoop. At the
2001 World Games in
Akita, Japan, Utiasheva won four silver medals behind teammate
Irina Tchachina in event finals for rope, hoop, ball and clubs. Utiasheva won the all-around silver medal at the
2001 Grand Prix Final in
Deventer, she also won 2 gold medals in the apparatus finals in clubs and rope. She was a member of the Russian team that won gold at the
2001 World Championships in Madrid but they were later disqualified due to
Alina Kabaeva and Irina Tchachina testing positive for a banned
diuretic. In September 2002, Utiasheva hurt her foot on a bad landing while training in Samara but the X-ray revealed no fracture so she continued training and competing for the next eight months. At the 2002 Grand Prix Final in
Innsbruck, Utiasheva felt pain in her feet after her ringjump and withdrew from the competition after the hoop final. At a specialist clinic in Berlin,
magnetic resonance tomography showed that the
navicular bone of both her feet had numerous fractures. She underwent surgery and returned to the sport briefly in 2004 but, unable to perform her jumps, she retired from competition and completed her career in 2006. Utiasheva continued performing in galas and also began coaching. She starred in
Alexei Nemov's 2007 show with other rhythmic stars including
Yulia Barsukova. She was also one of the judges at the
2012,
2014,
2016, and
2017 Miss Russia pageants. ==Personal life==