Prior to bobsledding, she competed in
track and field, specialising in the
heptathlon. She placed tenth at the
2004 World Junior Championships, was a bronze medallist at the
2009 European Athletics U23 Championships, and in her final year of competition she came 21st in the
2010 Hypo-Meeting. Sergeeva competed at the
2014 Winter Olympics for Russia. She teamed with
Nadezhda Paleeva as the Russia-2 sled in the
two-woman event, finishing 16th. As of April 2014, her best showing at the
World Championships is 9th, in the
2013 team competition. The test showed less than 1 μg meldonium. Sergeeva and teammate
Anastasia Kocherzhova won the first ever medals for Russia in the women's event at the
2017 FIBT European Championships, which took place with the World Cup tournament in
Winterberg at the same time. In February 2018, during the
2018 Winter Olympics, Sergeeva tested positive for the banned
performance-enhancing drug trimetazidine. That drug is used by people with cardiac insufficiency and by athletes wishing to improve their stamina. Her mother Tatiana works as physician in the Cardiac Center of
Kemerovo. Her results were annulled and she was suspended on 24 February 2018. Sergeeva competed at the
2022 Winter Olympics. ==References==