Petliakova began wrestling in her hometown of Lipetsk, where her first coach was Sergey Yakovlev. Since 2017, she has lived and trained in Saint Petersburg, representing the UOR #1/CSHVM club under coaches Dmitry Gercheglo and Sergey Yakovlev.[3]
She achieved her first notable result in 2015 by winning a national youth tournament in Ryazan.
In 2021, she became Russian junior champion and went on to win bronze at the 2021 European U20 Wrestling Championships in Dortmund and silver at the 2021 U20 World Wrestling Championships in Ufa. She repeated this success in 2023, winning silver again at the 2023 U20 World Wrestling Championships in Amman.
At the senior level, Petliakova won bronze medals at the Russian Women's Wrestling Championships in 2022 (Ufa) and 2024 (Krasnoyarsk), as well as multiple podium finishes at tournaments such as the Ivan Yarygin Memorial and Alexander Medved Grand Prix.
In 2024, she captured the European U23 title in Baku, defeating Ukrainian wrestler Manola Skobelskaya in the final. The following year, she became the U23 World Champion in Novi Sad in the 65 kg category.[4]
