Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A shekara 13, Sanaya ta wakilci Tarayyar Soviet a gasar zakarun Turai ta 1972 a Gothenburg, inda ta kasance ta 23, da kuma wasannin Olympics na 1972 a Sapporo, inda ta kasance ta 18. A kakar wasa ta gaba, ta kammala na 11 a gasar zakarun Turai ta 1973 a Cologne da na 16 a gasar zakarun duniya ta 1973
a cikin Bratislava. Masu horar da ita sun haɗa da Nina Zhuk, Sergei Chetverukhin, da Aleksandr Gorelik.