Retchakan retained the UK 400 m hurdles title in 1993, running 56.62 and reached the semi-finals of the World Championships in Stuttgart, running 55.96. In 1994, she won her fourth AAAs title in 57.08 and went on to reach the 400 m hurdles finals at both the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games. At the Europeans in Helsinki, she finished eighth in 56.05. Then in Victoria, at the Commonwealth Games, she finished fifth in the final, in 56.69. She won her fifth (and final) AAAs 400 metres hurdles title in 1995, in 57.18. However, she declined selection for the World Championships. At the 1996 British Olympic Trials, she was sixth, failing to earn Olympic selection.