She competed at the 1989 World Judo Championships in +72kg, ending up at the fifth position. In 1992, she won the European Championships, but her tenure in the 1992 Summer Olympics was less fortunate, losing by ouchi gari to Nathalie Lupino in quarter-finals and to Beata Maksymow by koka in the reserve match, thus ending at seventh place. Next year she ended third in the World Championships, but she came back by winning the Russian championship in 1994. 1995 seemed to be a similarly successful year, as Goundarenko won the European Champioships again, but was fifth in the World Championships. She retired in 1999, when she married, opened a pub and became a judo coach and a plus-size model.