Vodoresova started figure skating when she was four. She trained with Stanislaw Schuk . In 1976, 1977, 1980, 1982 and 1983 she became the Soviet champion. At the European Championships in Strasbourg in 1978 , she won the bronze medal behind Anett Pötzsch from the GDR and Dagmar Lurz from the FRG. It was the first European championship medal for a Soviet figure skater in a single run. At the European Championships in Lyon in 1982 she won bronze again and in 1983 in Dortmund she was vice-European champion behind Katarina Witt . She won her only world championship medal with bronze at the world championships in Helsinki in 1983 behind the American Rosalynn Sumners and Claudia Leistner from Germany. This medal was also a premiere because it was the first world championship medal for a Soviet figure skater in a single run. At the European Championships in 1984 she returned home after the compulsory first and second after the short program because she had to look after her sick mother.
Vodoresova represented the Soviet Union at two Olympic Games . In 1976 in Innsbruck she took twelfth place at the age of twelve, in 1984 in Sarajevo she was eighth. In the years 1979 to 1981 she could hardly run due to arthritis and therefore missed most of the tournaments during this period.
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