She was fifth in that event the following year at the 1996 European Athletics Indoor Championships and won the bronze medal at the 1998 IAAF Grand Prix Final.A tenth-place finish at the 2005 European Cross Country Championships was enough to help her Russian teammates (led by Inga Abitova) to the team gold medal.She reached the individual podium the following year at the 2006 European Cross Country Championships, taking the silver medal, although Russia finished fourth in the national team rankings.[8] She broke the previous world masters standard of 2:24:54, set by Germany’s Irina Mikitenko at the 2013 Berlin Marathon, but the result was later annulled following her 2015 suspension for doping.[8] In November 2015 Konovalova received a two-year competition ban from the Russia Athletic Federation due to irregularities with her biological passport.