Stepicheva rose to the top of the national scene with a 200 m win at the 1990 Soviet Athletics Championships, where she ran a best of 22.97 seconds. This was to be her sole outdoor national title.Soviet Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-27. An indoor national title followed in 1991 and she repeated that win at the interim Commonwealth of Independent States indoor championships in 1992.Soviet Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-27.
