She played her first international championship at the Junior World Championship in 2002, where she was eliminated over three distances in the preliminary run. At first there were no further appearances at the season highlights, only in the Junior World Championship in 2004 Potjomkina was used again and reached the quarter-finals as the best result over 1500 m. Her breakthrough in the adult sector finally came in the 2004/05 season . At the World Cup in Budapest , she made her debut in the World Cup and immediately came fourth in the season finals. She took part in the World Cup in Beijing for the first time , but could not survive the preliminary runs there. In the 2005/06 season Potjomkina could not improve. In two World Cup competitions she was eliminated in the individual races, her best result of the season was reaching the quarter-finals over 1000 m at the European Championships in Krynica-Zdrój . Potjomkina's results in individual races also stagnated in the 2006/07 season . But she was successful with the relay. At the World Cup in Heerenveen she reached second place as a member of the Russian quartet and celebrated her first podium finish in the World Cup. At the team world championship in Budapest she was also seventh.
In the following season 2007/08 Potjomkina also increased again in individual races. In the World Cup she made it into a semi-finals for the first time in the 1000 m and 1500 m. With the relay she reached a World Cup podium again in Heerenveen, this time third. At the European Championships in Ventspils , she also reached the semi-finals over 1500 m. The 2008/09 season brought Potjomkina five semi-finals over 1500 m. After missing the European Championship, she took part in the World Championship in Vienna , but disappointed there and did not survive the preliminary runs. The 2009/10 Olympic season brought Potjomkina more semi-finals over 1500 m in her two World Cup starts. She also made it into the semi-finals over 1500 m at the European Championships in Dresden and at the World Championships in Sofia . At the European Championships, she was also second in the season and won her first international medal. Potjomkina qualified for the Olympic Games in Vancouver , where she competed over all three individual distances, but was eliminated in each case in the preliminary stages. The 2010/11 season was not very successful for Potjomkina. In the World Cup, she could not improve any further, at the European Championships in Heerenveen she reached the semifinals over 1000 m. She took part in the team world championship in Warsaw and finished seventh.
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