In the
women's individual sabre at Beijing 2008, Dyachenko first defeated Japan's
Madoka Hisagae in the table of 32, before losing out her next match to Ukraine's
Olena Khomrova, with a sudden death score of 14–15. Few days later, she joined with her fellow fencers and teammates Ekaterina Fedorkina,
Elena Nechaeva and
Sofiya Velikaya for the
women's team sabre. Dyachenko and her team won the fifth place match against the Polish team (led by
Aleksandra Socha), with a total score of 45 touches. ==References==